카시트 바빌로니아 시대의 왕정에 대한 연구
Kingship in Kassite Babylonia
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From the beginning of the sixteenth century B.C.E., the Near East entered into a so-called “Dark Age.” The most important historical development in southern Mesopotamia during this period is the ascendancy of a new people, the Kassites. As king of a territorial state in contrast with the former rulers of city states, the Kassite kings ruled over Babylonia for almost half a millenium and led the country into one of the members of the “Great Powers' Club” in the ancient Near East. Yet it is very difficult to reconstruct the administration and kingship during the Kassite dynasty with any degree of certainty. The problem lies with the nature of the sources. Only a small portion of some twelve thousand Kassite documents has been published so far and most of them are economic ones relating to Nippur. The dearth of pertinent documentation hampers our effort to articulate many aspects of kingship of the Kassite rulers. This paper discusses some important features of the kings of the Kassite dynasty in Babylonia from the sparse material avaliable to us. The most distinctive feature of the Kassite kingship is the adoption of the traditional Babylonian culture. Knowing that they could not easily overturn the deep-rooted and more advanced traditional Babylonian culture, the Kassite rulers tried to acquire the native Babylonians' hearts and minds by advocating and promoting the traditional Babylonian cults. They restored, repaired, or built temples throughout all important cities. The Kassites also preserved the Babylonian scribal tradition and existing literary and scholarly texts. Thanks to their encompassing policy, Kassite Babylonia could become a place of blossoming Standard Babylonian literary production and the Babylonian language became the lingua franca of the ancient Near East.
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From the beginning of the sixteenth century B.C.E., the Near East entered into a so-called “Dark Age.” The most important historical development in southern Mesopotamia during this period is the ascendancy of a new people, the Kassites. As king of a territorial state in contrast with the former rulers of city states, the Kassite kings ruled over Babylonia for almost half a millenium and led the country into one of the members of the “Great Powers' Club” in the ancient Near East. Yet it is very difficult to reconstruct the administration and kingship during the Kassite dynasty with any degree of certainty. The problem lies with the nature of the sources. Only a small portion of some twelve thousand Kassite documents has been published so far and most of them are economic ones relating to Nippur. The dearth of pertinent documentation hampers our effort to articulate many aspects of kingship of the Kassite rulers. This paper discusses some important features of the kings of the Kassite dynasty in Babylonia from the sparse material avaliable to us. The most distinctive feature of the Kassite kingship is the adoption of the traditional Babylonian culture. Knowing that they could not easily overturn the deep-rooted and more advanced traditional Babylonian culture, the Kassite rulers tried to acquire the native Babylonians' hearts and minds by advocating and promoting the traditional Babylonian cults. They restored, repaired, or built temples throughout all important cities. The Kassites also preserved the Babylonian scribal tradition and existing literary and scholarly texts. Thanks to their encompassing policy, Kassite Babylonia could become a place of blossoming Standard Babylonian literary production and the Babylonian language became the lingua franca of the ancient Near East.
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