The Routledge Handbook of Emotions in the Ancient Near East

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Contents
List of Figures
List of Tables
List of Contributors
Acknowledgments
Editors’ Note
Transliteration Conventions for Ancient Texts
List of Abbreviations
Introduction: Emotions in the Ancient Near East: Foundations for a Developing Field of Study
PART I Theoretical and Thematic Approaches and Methods
	I. Emotions and History
		1 The Emotions of Dead Civilizations: “Come, Tell Me How You Lived”
		2 Emotion and the Body: Embodiment, Conceptual Metaphor, and Linguistic Encoding of Emotions in Akkadian
		3 Digital Approaches to Analyzing and Translating Emotion: What Is Love?
	II. Defining the Terms
		4 Sumerian Emotion Terms
		5 Akkadian Emotion Terms
		6 Hittite Emotion Terms
		7 Ugaritic Emotion Terms
	III. Materialization and Material Remains
		8 Emotions and Archaeology in Ancient Mesopotamia
		9 Emotions and Musical Performance
		10 Emotions and Body Language: The Expression of Emotions in Visual Art
	IV. Kings and the State
		11 Emotions and Assyrian Kingship
		12 Emotions and Hittite Kingship: Feeling Like a King
		13 Emotions and the Brotherhood of Kings: Affection in the Amarna Letters
	V. Engaging the Gods
		14 Emotions and Emesal Laments: Motivations, Performance, and Management
		15 Emotions and Ritual Laments: The Affective Function of Beer in Mesopotamia
		16 Emotions and Religion: Ritual Performance in Mesopotamia
		17 Emotions and Hittite Prayers
PART II Corpus-Based Approaches
	I. Happiness and Joy
		18 Joy and Happiness in Mesopotamian Royal Inscriptions
		19 Joy and Happiness in Hittite Texts
	II. Fear, Terror, and Awe
		20 Awe as Entangled Emotion: Prosociality, Collective Action, and Aesthetics in the Sumerian Gilgamesh Narratives
		21 Fear and Terror in Assyrian Palace Reliefs
	III. Sadness, Grief, and Depression
		22 Grief and Sadness in the Sumerian Gilgamesh Narratives
		23 Sadness and Grief in Akkadian Texts
		24 Grief and Sadness in Ugaritic Texts
	IV. Contempt, Disgust, and Shame
		25 Contempt and Related Emotions in Hittite and Akkadian Literary Texts
		26 Shaming the Enemy in Assyrian Palace Reliefs and Royal Inscriptions
	V. Anger and Hate
		27 Anger and Hatred in Neo-Assyrian and Neo-Babylonian Royal Inscriptions
		28 Anger and Hatred in Hittite Te
	VI. Envy and Jealousy
		29 Envy and Jealousy in Magico-Medical Texts
	VII. Love, Affection, and Admiration
		30 Love and Desire in Sumerian Texts
		31 Love and Kindness in the Assyrian State
		32 Love and Affection in Hittite Texts
	VIII. Pity, Empathy, and Compassion
		33 Compassion, Pity, and Empathy in Sumerian Sources
		34 Pity and Suffering in Old Babylonian Akkadian Sources
Index