{"title":"Erudite Savagery: Intertextuality in Ashurbanipal’s Account of the Siege of Babylon","authors":"Eli Tadmor","doi":"10.1086/724083","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"In 648 bce,1 a deadly civil war between two brothers—Ashurbanipal, king of Assyria (668–ca. 631) and Šamaš-šuma-ukīn, king of Babylonia (667–648)— was finally coming to an end.2 After a two-year siege, Ashurbanipal’s army conquered and sacked Babylon, the capital of his once-beloved sibling. The victorious Ashurbanipal did not have the satisfaction of capturing his “unfaithful brother” (aḫu lā kēnu)3 alive, and of executing him as slowly and horrifically as he doubtless would have wished.4 Yet Šamaš-šuma-ukīn did not","PeriodicalId":45745,"journal":{"name":"JOURNAL OF NEAR EASTERN STUDIES","volume":"82 1","pages":"43 - 58"},"PeriodicalIF":0.6000,"publicationDate":"2023-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"0","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"JOURNAL OF NEAR EASTERN STUDIES","FirstCategoryId":"1085","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.1086/724083","RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"历史学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"0","JCRName":"ARCHAEOLOGY","Score":null,"Total":0}
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In 648 bce,1 a deadly civil war between two brothers—Ashurbanipal, king of Assyria (668–ca. 631) and Šamaš-šuma-ukīn, king of Babylonia (667–648)— was finally coming to an end.2 After a two-year siege, Ashurbanipal’s army conquered and sacked Babylon, the capital of his once-beloved sibling. The victorious Ashurbanipal did not have the satisfaction of capturing his “unfaithful brother” (aḫu lā kēnu)3 alive, and of executing him as slowly and horrifically as he doubtless would have wished.4 Yet Šamaš-šuma-ukīn did not
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Devoted to an examination of the civilizations of the Near East, the Journal of Near Eastern Studies has for 125 years published contributions from scholars of international reputation on the archaeology, art, history, languages, literatures, and religions of the Near East. Founded in 1884 as Hebraica, the journal was renamed twice over the course of the following century, each name change reflecting the growth and expansion of the fields covered by the publication. In 1895 it became the American Journal of Semitic Languages and Literatures, and in 1942 it received its present designation, the Journal of Near Eastern Studies. From an original emphasis on Old Testament studies in the nineteenth century.
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