EAN: 9783161612480

ORIENTALISCHE RELIGIONEN IN DER ANTIKE WRITIN...

This volume combines the papers held at the Minerva Center's Research on Israel and Aram in
Biblical Times conference (Leipzig 2018) on the subject of writing and re-writing history by
deliberate destruction in the regions of Syria  Palestine  and Mesopotamia. An international
group of scholars studies the subject using a multi-perspective and interdisciplinary approach.
Archeological studies  ancient Near Eastern studies  and biblical studies focused on the
destruction of ancient sites in Israel and Judah in the 1st millennium BC. The perspective of
the defeated Israelites  Jerusalemites  and Judeans is described in detail in the Old Testament
and in postbiblical literature and shows that the destructions in the past were a cultural and
identity creator of the first magnitude. The longue durée of the practice of reshaping the past
through the deliberate destruction of a cultural heritage in order to shape the present
according to current interests becomes evident based on the Neo-Assyrian Empire's practice up
to the modern era and is demonstrated by the example of the Arabian-Muslim conquest of Aram as
well as current Turkish politics.

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