The Politics of Ritual Change: The Zukru Festival in the Political History of Late Bronze Age Emar: 65 (Harvard Semitic Monographs) - Hardcover

John Tracy Thames, Jr.

 
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Synopsis

In The Politics of Ritual Change, John Thames explores the intersection of ritual and politics in the zukru festival texts from Emar and suggests a new understanding of the Hittite Empires relationship to northern Syria in the 13th century BCE.

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About the Author

John Tracy Thames, Jr., Ph.D. (2016), Johns Hopkins University, is Assistant Professor of Religion at Clemson University. His publications include articles on ritual and religion in the ancient Near East and the Hebrew Bible.

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