Change, Order, Remembrance

Crisis and Religion in the Ancient Near East: Proceedings of the Workshop held at the 18th EASR Conference, Pisa, August 30th - September 3rd 2021

edited by Marta Pallavidini, Costanza Coppini and Johannes Bacha

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Extent: 208 pages

Publisher: Zaphon

Subjects: Ancient Near East, Religious Studies

Series: Kasion

Series volume number: 13

Language: English

Hardback (Published)

(September 2025)

ISBN: 9783963272943

6.65 x 9.41 inches

Price: $98.00

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(September 2025)

ISBN: 9783963272950

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By collecting contributions from philologists, historians, and archaeologists of the Ancient Near East focusing on specific case studies that encompass the area from Anatolia to Mesopotamia and the Levant in the second and first millennium BCE, the volume aims at investigating representations and remembrances of crises and their aftermaths in textual, visual-art, and archaeological evidence. The volume focuses on moments of crisis and their representations in various media, and crucially also on questions linked to the aftermaths of crises. Particularly relevant are questions of how a group or a society reconstitutes itself after a crisis as well as how the transition or the change becomes manifest. Finally, the element of religion also produces significant questions, for instance, how religious thinking and practice intervene in dealing with a crisis and its aftermath, and what kind of innovation or change a crisis could spark in and through religion, as well as how a crisis is remembered.

  • Edited by Johannes Bach
  • Edited by Costanza Coppini
  • Edited by Marta Pallavidini