The Akitu Festival: Religious Continuity and Royal Legitimation in Mesopotamia by Julye Bidmead

Gorgias Dissertations Near Eastern Studies

The Akitu Festival: Religious Continuity and Royal Legitimation in Mesopotamia

Julye Bidmead

236 pages hardcover

2 editions

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Religious ritual is embedded with socio-political ideologies. Nowhere is this more apparent then in the ancient Babylonian akitu, or New Year festival. The akitu festival is one of the oldest recorded religious festivals in the world, celebrated f...

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