This book examines Temple Renovation as a rhetorical topic within Royal literature of the Ancient Near East.
Davis demonstrates a pattern in the Rhetoric of Temple Renovation t.
Andrew R.
In this way, Temple renovations were a kind of historiography.
Kings took the opportunity to rehearse a selective history of the temple, evoking certain past traditions and omitting others.
Unlike newly founded temples, which were celebrated for their novelty, Temple renovations were oriented toward the past.
This book examines Temple Renovation as a rhetorical topic within Royal literature of the Ancient Near East