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 paperback

2 editions

nonfiction history religion
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Using tools of social anthropology, this book describes the ancient Babylonian ak tu, or New Year festival. It reconstructs the festival?

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