Baal and the Politics of Poetry, Hardcover by Tugendhaft, Aaron, Like New Use...

by Tugendhaft, Aaron

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Baal and the Politics of Poetry, Hardcover by Tugendhaft, Aaron, ISBN 1138063622, ISBN-13 9781138063624, Like New Used, Free shipping in the US Baal and the Politics of Poetry provides a thoroughly new interpretation of the Ugaritic Baal Cycle that simultaneously inaugurates an innovative approach to studying ancient Near Eastern literature within the political context of its production. Th argues that the poem, written in the last decades of the Bronze Age, takes aim at the reigning political-theological norms of its day and uses the depiction of a divine world to educate its audience about the nature of human politics. By attuning ourselves to the specific historical context of this one poem, we can develop more nuanced appreciation of how poetry, politics, and religion have interacted—in antiquity, and beyond.

• Binding: Hardcover
• ISBN: 9781138063624
• Condition: Fine

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