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rites and calendar, defiling priests of their purity, with forbidden foodstuffs (leeks) and mutilating the fingers of apprentices. By abolishing the privileges of the citizens of
Babylon, Borsippa and Kutha, he is reversing the conventional position of the king and instead of providing gifts to the
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Chaldeans and, in the central two columns, lists his increasingly impious and foolhardy actions, beginning with his apparent reluctance to confront the Aramean foe, “He did not go out again to do battle or go on campaign in it (his land).”
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The underlying theme of the work is the inversion of traditional role of a
Babylonian King, where one charged with defending the cults, seeks to replace it, disrupting rituals, such as that of the
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63:, and Uruk, together with the apparent dynastic change following his regime has led to the view that it was originally a literary construct of the reign of
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tribes from
Southern Mesopotamia, or perhaps detailing his earlier infamy during their reigns. The narrative emphasizes the tensions between the
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Testament Context of David's Costly Flirtation with Empire Building". In Stanley E. Porter (ed.).
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E. von Weiher (1984). "Marduk-apla-uṣur und Nabû-šum-iškun in einem spätbabylonischen
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Jonathan Kaplan (2012). "1 Samuel 8:11—18 as "A Mirror for
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