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Nation and Empire as Two Trends of Political Organization in the Iron Age Levant
Series: - Culture and History of the Ancient Near East, Volume: 136
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In Nation and Empire as Two Trends of Political Organization in the Iron Age Levant Hualong MEI offers an analysis of national and imperial ideologies--two political principles that influenced the establishment, consolidation and expansion of trans-local/trans-tribal polities in the Iron Age Levant. By examining key terminologies, historical accounts and literary sources, MEI argues that the elites of ancient nations may attempt to reshape their political and cultural identity in imperial terms (vice versa, but to a lesser extent). The conceptual transformation from the one to the other is closely related to the political entity’s consciousness and understanding of limits and boundaries: political and cultural, real and imagined.
Hualong MEI, Ph.D. (Harvard 2020), is Assistant Professor of Hebrew Studies at the Department of Western Asian Studies, Peking University (PR China). He has published articles on ancient Syro-Palestine and the broader ancient Near East.
All interested in the interaction of nation and empire in the ancient Near East, and anyone concerned with the relevance of related terminologies and concepts in an ancient context.