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The Reign of Nebuchadnezzar I in History and Historical Memory

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The Reign of Nebuchadnezzar I in History and Historical Memory

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The Reign of Nebuchadnezzar I in History and Historical Memory

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The Reign of Nebuchadnezzar I in History and Historical Memory book

ByJohn P. Nielsen
Edition 1st Edition
First Published 2018
eBook Published 25 April 2018
Pub. Location London
Imprint Routledge
DOI https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315648262
Pages 244
eBook ISBN 9781315648262
Subjects Area Studies, Humanities
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Nielsen, J.P. (2018). The Reign of Nebuchadnezzar I in History and Historical Memory (1st ed.). Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315648262

ABSTRACT

Nebuchadnezzar I (r. 1125-1104) was one of the more significant and successful kings to rule Babylonia in the intervening period between the demise of the Kassite Dynasty in the 12th century at the end of the Late Bronze Age, and the emergence of a new, independent Babylonian monarchy in the last quarter of the 7th century. His dynamic reign saw Nebuchadnezzar active on both domestic and foreign fronts. He tended to the needs of the traditional cult sanctuaries and their associated priesthoods in the major cities throughout Babylonia and embarked on military campaigns against both Assyria in the north and Elam to the east. Yet later Babylonian tradition celebrated him for one achievement that was little noted in his own royal inscriptions: the return of the statue of Marduk, Babylon’s patron deity, from captivity in Elam.

The Reign of Nebuchadnezzar reconstructs the history of Nebuchadnezzar I’s rule and, drawing upon theoretical treatments of historical and collective memory, examines how stories of his reign were intentionally utilized by later generations of Babylonian scholars and priests to create an historical memory that projected their collective identity and reflected Marduk’s rise to the place of primacy within the Babylonian pantheon in the 1st millennium BCE. It also explores how this historical memory was employed by the urban elite in discourses of power. Nebuchadnezzar I remained a viable symbol, though with diminishing effect, until at least the 3rd century BCE, by which time his memory had almost entirely faded. This study is a valuable resource to students of the Ancient Near East and Nebuchadnezzar, but is also a fascinating exploration of memory creation and exploitation in the ancient world.

TABLE OF CONTENTS

part I|45 pages

Writing history and recovering memory, sources and methodologies

chapter 1|19 pages

Toward an understanding of the Babylonian memory of Nebuchadnezzar I

chapter 2|24 pages

Nebuchadnezzar I

Prior scholarship, historical sources, and chronology

part II|41 pages

Nebuchadnezzar I and his times

chapter 3|29 pages

The reign of Nebuchadnezzar I

chapter 4|10 pages

Nebuchadnezzar I’s successors

part III|58 pages

Remembering Nebuchadnezzar I in the first millennium BCE

chapter 5|35 pages

Esarhaddon and the return of Marduk in 668 BCE 1

chapter 6|21 pages

Remembering Nebuchadnezzar I from the zenith of Babylonian power through the Seleucid era

part IV|66 pages

The making of memory and the making of meaning

chapter 7|14 pages

Nebuchadnezzar I in the collective memory

chapter 8|26 pages

The elevation of Marduk

Nebuchadnezzar I as cultural formation

chapter 9|24 pages

Intentional history in the early first millennium BCE

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