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Baal and the Politics of Poetry

By: Aaron Tugendhaft

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Baal and the Politics of Poetry

By: Aaron Tugendhaft

Baal and the Politics of Poetry provides a thoroughly new interpretation of the Ugaritic Baal Cycle that simultaneously inaugurates an innovative approach to studying ancient Near Eastern literature within the political context of its production. The book argues that the poem, written in the last decades of the Bronze Age, takes aim at the reigning political-theological norms of its day and uses the depiction of a divine world to educate its audience about the nature of human politics. By attuning ourselves to the specific historical context of this one poem, we can develop more nuanced appreciation of how poetry, politics, and religion have interacted—in antiquity, and beyond.

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Routledge

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1351663771

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9781351663779

Idol Anxiety

By: Josh Ellenbogen,Aaron Tugendhaft

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Idol Anxiety

By: Josh Ellenbogen,Aaron Tugendhaft

This interdisciplinary collection of essays on idolatry, including both historical and theoretical contributions, shows that the concept of idolatry is helpful for all who study the ways that people interact with and conceive of the things around them.

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258

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Stanford University Press

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0804760438

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9780804760430

The Idols of ISIS

From Assyria to the Internet

By: Aaron Tugendhaft

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The Idols of ISIS

From Assyria to the Internet

By: Aaron Tugendhaft

In 2015, the Islamic State released a video of men smashing sculptures in Iraq’s Mosul Museum as part of a mission to cleanse the world of idolatry. This book unpacks three key facets of that event: the status and power of images, the political importance of museums, and the efficacy of videos in furthering an ideological agenda through the internet. Beginning with the Islamic State’s claim that the smashed objects were idols of the “age of ignorance,” Aaron Tugendhaft questions whether there can be any political life without idolatry. He then explores the various roles Mesopotamian sculpture has played in European imperial competition, the development of artistic modernism, and the formation of Iraqi national identity, showing how this history reverberates in the choice of the Mosul Museum as performance stage. Finally, he compares the Islamic State’s production of images to the ways in which images circulated in ancient Assyria and asks how digitization has transformed politics in the age of social media. An elegant and accessibly written introduction to the complexities of such events, The Idols of ISIS is ideal for students and readers seeking a richer cultural perspective than the media usually provides.

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University of Chicago Press

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022662367X

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9780226623672

Baal and the Politics of Poetry

By: Aaron Tugendhaft

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The Idols of ISIS

From Assyria to the Internet

By: Aaron Tugendhaft

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From Assyria to the Internet

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Book's by Aaron Tugendhaft

Baal and the Politics of Poetry

Baal and the Politics of Poetry

Idol Anxiety

Idol Anxiety

The Idols of ISIS

The Idols of ISIS

Baal and the Politics of Poetry

Baal and the Politics of Poetry

The Idols of ISIS

The Idols of ISIS

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