The Routledge Handbook of Emotions in the Ancient Near East

Introduction: Emotions in the Ancient Near East: Foundations for a Developing Field of Study, Karen Sonik and Ulrike Steinert; Part I: Theoretical and Thematic Approaches and Methods; I. Emotions and History; 1. The Emotions of Dead Civilizations: "Come, Tell Me How You Lived", Karen Sonik; 2. Emotion and the Body: Embodiment, Conceptual Metaphor, and Linguistic Encoding of Emotions in Akkadian, Ulrike Steinert; 3. Digital Approaches to Analyzing and Translating Emotion: What is Love?, Tero Alstola, Heidi Jauhiainen, Saana Svard, Aleksi Sahala, and Krister Linden; II. Defining the Terms; 4. Sumerian Emotion Terms, Margaret Jaques; 5. Akkadian Emotion Terms, Janine Wende; 6. Hittite Emotion Terms, Gary Beckman; 7. Ugaritic Emotion Terms, Andrew R. Burlingame; III. Materialization and Material Remains; 8. Emotions and Archaeology in Ancient Mesopotamia, Susan Pollock; 9. Emotions and Musical Performance, Dahlia Shehata; 10. Emotions and Body Language: The Expression of Emotions in Visual Art, Karen Sonik; IV. Kings and the State; 11. Emotions and Assyrian Kingship, Johannes Bach; 12. Emotions and Hittite Kingship: Feeling Like a King, Amir Gilan and Romina Della Casa; 13. Emotions and the Brotherhood of Kings: Affection in the Amarna Letters, Amanda H. Podany; V. Engaging the Gods; 14. Emotions and Emesal Laments: Motivations, Performance, and Management, Uri Gabbay; 15. Emotions and Ritual Laments: The Affective Function of Beer in Mesopotamia, Gosta Gabriel; 16. Emotions and Religion: Ritual Performance in Mesopotamia, Beate Pongratz-Leisten; 17. Emotions and Hittite Prayers, Lidewij van de Peut; Part II: Corpus-Based Approaches; I. Happiness and Joy; 18. Joy and Happiness in Mesopotamian Royal Inscriptions, Nathan Morello; 19. Joy and Happiness in Hittite Texts, Alice Mouton; II. Fear, Terror, and Awe; 20. Awe as Entangled Emotion: Prosociality, Collective Action, and Aesthetics in the Sumerian Gilgamesh Narratives, Karen Sonik; 21. Fear and Terror in Assyrian Palace Reliefs, Dominik Bonatz; III. Sadness, Grief, and Depression; 22. Grief and Sadness in the Sumerian Gilgamesh Narratives, Alhena Gadotti; 23. Grief and Sadness in Akkadian Texts, Irene Sibbing-Plantholt; 24. Grief and Sadness in Ugaritic Texts, Joseph Lam, IV. Contempt, Disgust, and Shame; 25. Contempt and Related Emotions in Hittite and Akkadian Literary Texts, Ilan Peled; 26. Shaming the Enemy in Assyrian Palace Reliefs and Royal Inscriptions, Davide Nadali; V. Anger and Hate; 27. Anger and Hatred in Neo-Assyrian and Neo-Babylonian Royal Inscriptions, Hanspeter Schaudig; 28. Anger and Hatred in Hittite Texts, Sylvie Vanseveren; VI. Envy and Jealousy; 29. Envy and Jealousy in Magico-Medical Texts, Elyze Zomer; VII. Love, Affection, and Admiration; 30. Love and Desire in Sumerian Texts, M. Erica Couto-Ferreira; 31. Love and Kindness in the Assyrian State, Frederick Mario Fales; 32. Love and Affection in Hittite Texts, Birgit Christiansen; VIII. Pity, Empathy, and Compassion; 33. Compassion, Pity, and Empathy in Sumerian Sources, Dina Katz; 34. Pity and Suffering in Old Babylonian Akkadian Sources, Nele Ziegler.