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100 1  Davis, Andrew R., |d1978- |eauthor. |0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n2013054812
245 10 Reconstructing the temple : |bthe royal rhetoric of temple renovation in the ancient Near East and Israel / |cAndrew R. Davis.
264  1 New York, NY : |bOxford University Press, |c2019.
300    1 online resource.
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490 1  Oxford scholarship online
500    Also issued in print: 2019.
504    Includes bibliographical references and index.
520 8  This text examines temple renovation as a rhetorical topic within royal literature of the ancient Near East. Unlike newly founded temples, which were celebrated for their novelty, temple renovations were oriented toward the past. Kings took the opportunity to rehearse a selective history of the temple, evoking certain past traditions and omitting others. In this way, temple renovations were a kind of historiography. Andrew R. Davis demonstrates a pattern in the rhetoric of temple renovation texts: that kings in ancient Mesopotamia, Israel, Syria and Persia used temple renovation to correct, or at least distance themselves from, some turmoil of recent history and to associate their reigns with an earlier and more illustrious past.
521    Specialized.
588    Description based on online resource; title from home page (viewed on July 10, 2019).
650  0 Temples |xRemodeling |zMiddle East |xHistory |yTo 1500.
651  0 Middle East |xKings and rulers |xReligious aspects.
730 0  Oxford scholarship online.
776 08  |iPrint version: |z9780190868963
830  0 Oxford scholarship online