Nation And Empire As Two Trends Of Political Organization In The Iron Age Levant

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By (author) MEI, Hualong

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In Nation and Empire as Two Trends of Political Organization in the Iron Age Levant MEI Hualong offers a terminological and textual analysis of national and imperial ideologies in the Iron Age Levant and the interaction between them.

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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.

Biographical note:

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.