dc.contributor.author | Sasson, Jack M. | |
dc.date.accessioned | 2010-03-05T15:35:08Z | |
dc.date.available | 2010-03-05T15:35:08Z | |
dc.date.issued | 1997 | |
dc.identifier.citation | Sasson, Jack M. "The Vow of Mutiya, King of Shekhna." Crossing Boundaries and Linking Horizons. Eds. G. D. Young M. W. Chavalas, and R. E. Averbeck. Bethesda, MD: CDL Press, 1997. 483-98. | en_US |
dc.identifier.isbn | 1883053323 | |
dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/1803/3902 | |
dc.description | In this chapter Professor Sasson shows how vows made to the gods and goddesses by those who sought advancement were often forgotten once they had attained power. The consequences that resulted might not be seen for a generation or more. | en_US |
dc.description.abstract | "Of course, I cannot claim that Mutiya's egregious lapse directly influenced
what was told about Keret. I could, however, suggest that these two
accounts of misbegotten vows, one embedded in an epic and the other
conveyed in a letter, are exploiting two themes that readily combine in
popular belief: the first develops from the commonplace that achievers too
often neglect benefactors who had once boosted their rise; the second
depends on the conventional crediting to wrathful gods any exceptional or
precipitous collapse of power. To the pious, therefore, neglected vows give
fine opportunity not only to reflect on the fall of the mighty, but also to delve
into some of the less mysterious facets of theodicy." | en_US |
dc.language.iso | en_US | en_US |
dc.publisher | CDL Press | en_US |
dc.subject.lcsh | Mari (Extinct city) | en_US |
dc.subject.lcsh | Cuneiform tablets -- Syria -- Mari (Extinct city) | en_US |
dc.subject.lcsh | Middle East -- Antiquities | en_US |
dc.subject.lcsh | Goddesses, Assyro-Babylonian | en_US |
dc.title | The Vow of Mutiya, King of Shekhna | en_US |
dc.type | Book chapter | en_US |
dc.description.school | Divinity School | en_US |