Much has been written about Hellenistic kings, and rightly so. 1 They were a central political in... more Much has been written about Hellenistic kings, and rightly so. 1 They were a central political institution of the period. In places like Egypt and western Asia, where monarchy had been the central institution of governance for millennia, the new kings of the Hellenistic world adapted to local expectations, although there were new elements-Alexander was always in the background, and Macedonian kingship more generally, and there was, perhaps, even a tinge of Homeric kingship. 2 But there were new features in part driven by ideological adaptation and in part driven by the new realities of the age including the attitude toward the divinity of kings as expressed in royal cult. In the world of the Greek city-states, in places like Athens, accommodation to the new political world after Alexander was the rule. Kings and royal administration were the dominant power in the Mediterranean world after Alexander, and it is right to emphasize that we are dealing with a " Hellenistic " phenomenon that unites the Ptolemies, the Seleukids with kings like Hiero II in Sicily (Walbank 1984). But we cannot, of course, discount entirely ancient political relationships between priesthoods and kings, and the Demotic Egyptian text known as the Demotic Chronicle is an important illustration that in fact the institutions of kingship was encapsulated by written rules of good and bad behavior, with consequences. 3 Nevertheless Ptolemaic kings stood on the periphery of the Egyptian world and were far less important to Egypt than were the temples. 4 And temples we know, as with the Greek cities, were major centers of social power in their own right. We need not look much beyond the trilingual priestly decrees from Egypt, or events of the Maccabean revolt, to understand this. The world of kings has been one of the richest veins in scholarship across pre-modern societies over many decades. Studies have tended to concentrate on two general
Bulletin of the American Schools of Oriental Research, 1996
... he present article is a response to Anson Rainey's comments on Chapter 4 of my recen... more ... he present article is a response to Anson Rainey's comments on Chapter 4 of my recent book, Egypt, Canaan, and Israel in Ancient Times ... In fact, the statement of Thutmose III with respect to what the capture of Megiddo would mean, now that the town was filled with contingents ...
... Akhenaten, the heretic king. Post a Comment. CONTRIBUTORS: Author: Redford, Donald B. PUBLISH... more ... Akhenaten, the heretic king. Post a Comment. CONTRIBUTORS: Author: Redford, Donald B. PUBLISHER: Princeton University Press (Princeton, NJ). SERIES TITLE: YEAR: 1984. PUB TYPE: Book (ISBN 0691035679 ). VOLUME/EDITION: PAGES (INTRO/BODY): xxvi, 255 p. ...
Journal of the American Research Center in Egypt, 1991
... pottery from these earlier excavations had indicated to the director that the domestic occupa... more ... pottery from these earlier excavations had indicated to the director that the domestic occupation which had been identified along the southern wall of the Gm-pj-itn was to be dated to the Twelfth and perhaps into the Thirteenth Dynasties and thus Middle Kingdom.28 Remains of ...
... For jar-sealings of Thutmose III from Hebwa, see MA Maksoud, Heboua, Enquete archeologique su... more ... For jar-sealings of Thutmose III from Hebwa, see MA Maksoud, Heboua, Enquete archeologique sur la Deuxieme Periode Intermediam et le Nouvel Empire a I ... in North Sinai," in AF Rainey (ed), Egypt, Israel, Sinai (Tel Aviv, 1987), 69-119; DB Redford, Egypt and Canaan in the ...
Bulletin of the American Schools of Oriental Research, 1989
... Pharaonic king-lists, annals, and day-books: A contribution to the study of the Egyptian sens... more ... Pharaonic king-lists, annals, and day-books: A contribution to the study of the Egyptian sense of history. Post a Comment. CONTRIBUTORS: Author: Redford, Donald B. PUBLISHER: Benben (Mississauga). SERIES TITLE: YEAR: 1986. PUB TYPE: Book (ISBN 0920168086 ). ...
Egypt, Canaan, and Israel in Ancient Times is a general history of the relationship between Egypt... more Egypt, Canaan, and Israel in Ancient Times is a general history of the relationship between Egypt and Canaan/Palestine/Israel from prehistory down to the destruction of Jerusalem in 586 BC Of necessity it deals thoroughly with the history of both regions in the process. It is a solid ...
Much has been written about Hellenistic kings, and rightly so. 1 They were a central political in... more Much has been written about Hellenistic kings, and rightly so. 1 They were a central political institution of the period. In places like Egypt and western Asia, where monarchy had been the central institution of governance for millennia, the new kings of the Hellenistic world adapted to local expectations, although there were new elements-Alexander was always in the background, and Macedonian kingship more generally, and there was, perhaps, even a tinge of Homeric kingship. 2 But there were new features in part driven by ideological adaptation and in part driven by the new realities of the age including the attitude toward the divinity of kings as expressed in royal cult. In the world of the Greek city-states, in places like Athens, accommodation to the new political world after Alexander was the rule. Kings and royal administration were the dominant power in the Mediterranean world after Alexander, and it is right to emphasize that we are dealing with a " Hellenistic " phenomenon that unites the Ptolemies, the Seleukids with kings like Hiero II in Sicily (Walbank 1984). But we cannot, of course, discount entirely ancient political relationships between priesthoods and kings, and the Demotic Egyptian text known as the Demotic Chronicle is an important illustration that in fact the institutions of kingship was encapsulated by written rules of good and bad behavior, with consequences. 3 Nevertheless Ptolemaic kings stood on the periphery of the Egyptian world and were far less important to Egypt than were the temples. 4 And temples we know, as with the Greek cities, were major centers of social power in their own right. We need not look much beyond the trilingual priestly decrees from Egypt, or events of the Maccabean revolt, to understand this. The world of kings has been one of the richest veins in scholarship across pre-modern societies over many decades. Studies have tended to concentrate on two general
Bulletin of the American Schools of Oriental Research, 1996
... he present article is a response to Anson Rainey's comments on Chapter 4 of my recen... more ... he present article is a response to Anson Rainey's comments on Chapter 4 of my recent book, Egypt, Canaan, and Israel in Ancient Times ... In fact, the statement of Thutmose III with respect to what the capture of Megiddo would mean, now that the town was filled with contingents ...
... Akhenaten, the heretic king. Post a Comment. CONTRIBUTORS: Author: Redford, Donald B. PUBLISH... more ... Akhenaten, the heretic king. Post a Comment. CONTRIBUTORS: Author: Redford, Donald B. PUBLISHER: Princeton University Press (Princeton, NJ). SERIES TITLE: YEAR: 1984. PUB TYPE: Book (ISBN 0691035679 ). VOLUME/EDITION: PAGES (INTRO/BODY): xxvi, 255 p. ...
Journal of the American Research Center in Egypt, 1991
... pottery from these earlier excavations had indicated to the director that the domestic occupa... more ... pottery from these earlier excavations had indicated to the director that the domestic occupation which had been identified along the southern wall of the Gm-pj-itn was to be dated to the Twelfth and perhaps into the Thirteenth Dynasties and thus Middle Kingdom.28 Remains of ...
... For jar-sealings of Thutmose III from Hebwa, see MA Maksoud, Heboua, Enquete archeologique su... more ... For jar-sealings of Thutmose III from Hebwa, see MA Maksoud, Heboua, Enquete archeologique sur la Deuxieme Periode Intermediam et le Nouvel Empire a I ... in North Sinai," in AF Rainey (ed), Egypt, Israel, Sinai (Tel Aviv, 1987), 69-119; DB Redford, Egypt and Canaan in the ...
Bulletin of the American Schools of Oriental Research, 1989
... Pharaonic king-lists, annals, and day-books: A contribution to the study of the Egyptian sens... more ... Pharaonic king-lists, annals, and day-books: A contribution to the study of the Egyptian sense of history. Post a Comment. CONTRIBUTORS: Author: Redford, Donald B. PUBLISHER: Benben (Mississauga). SERIES TITLE: YEAR: 1986. PUB TYPE: Book (ISBN 0920168086 ). ...
Egypt, Canaan, and Israel in Ancient Times is a general history of the relationship between Egypt... more Egypt, Canaan, and Israel in Ancient Times is a general history of the relationship between Egypt and Canaan/Palestine/Israel from prehistory down to the destruction of Jerusalem in 586 BC Of necessity it deals thoroughly with the history of both regions in the process. It is a solid ...
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