TY  - BOOK
AU  - Adodo,Talawa
AU  - Ashby,Solange
AU  - Brody,Aaron
AU  - Brody,Aaron J.
AU  - Burrell,Kevin
AU  - Capo Chichi,Sandro
AU  - Cradic,Melissa S.
AU  - Davies,Vanessa
AU  - Faraji,Salim
AU  - Howley,Kathryn
AU  - Johnson,Jess
AU  - Lemos,Rennan
AU  - Monroe,Shayla
AU  - Norton,Brooke E.
AU  - Pfister,Samuel D.
AU  - Pickens,Sydney A.
AU  - Souza,Aaron de
AU  - Walsh,Carl
TI  - New Perspectives on Ancient Nubia
T2  - Gorgias Studies in the Ancient Near East
SN  - 9781463243432
AV  - DT159.6.N83 
U1  - 939/.78 23//eng/20240807eng
PY  - 2024///]
CY  - Piscataway, NJ
PB  - Gorgias Press
KW  - Excavations (Archaeology)
KW  - Nubia
KW  - Ancient
KW  - General
KW  - History
KW  - HISTORY / Ancient / General
KW  - bisacsh
N1  - Frontmatter --; TABLE OF CONTENTS --; Contributors --; Foreword --; Introduction --; The First Empire of Kush: Delegitimizing the Colonial Trope of the Black Pharaohs --; Exhibiting ‘New Perspectives’: Creating a Virtual and Collaborative Exhibition on Ancient Nubia --; Teaching Ancient Nubia: Integrating Kush in K-12 Curriculum --; Beyond Cultural Entanglements: Experiencing the New Kingdom Colonization of Nubia ‘from Below’ --; Nubia as a Place of Refuge: Nile Valley Resistance against Foreign Invasion --; Blurring Boundaries: Towards a more integrative view of Nubian–Egyptian interactions --; On the relationship between Meroitic and Nigerian aegides --; Monsters in the Bed: Furniture, Composite Creatures, and Kerma International Relations --; Kushites in the Hebrew Bible: Theological and Historical Perspectives --; Kings of the Two Lands: the importance of audience for royal monuments of Twenty-Fifth Dynasty Egypt and Nubia --; Animals in the Kerma Afterlife: Animal Burials and Ritual at Abu Fatima Cemetery; restricted access
N2  - Knowledge of the societies of ancient Nubia is regrettably narrow due to a variety of reasons. Ancient Egyptian royal propaganda expressed prejudices that held Nubia as “wretched Kush,” subsidiary to Egypt’s political power and cultural flourishing. Egyptologists tend to interpret ancient Nubian political and social achievements as derivative of Egypt as a result of this ancient bias and due to modern views of “Egyptian exceptionalism.” Finally, there is a structural absence of Kush from general spheres of knowledge transmission: university departments, academic and public libraries, and the wider discourse about the ancient world, render Nubia all but invisible. Located at the nexus of the Nile Valley and savannah corridors, ancient Nubian peoples traded east African goods to Egypt, the eastern Mediterranean, and the Near East. The powerful Kushite empire attained political hegemony over Egypt in its 25th Dynasty (ca. 760–656 BCE), which saw the Kushite pharaohs engaging in international displays of power in the Levant, bringing them into direct conflict with the Assyrian empire. Commentary on these clashes is recorded in the Hebrew Bible, while the Christian New Testament speaks of the conversion of a treasurer of the “Candace of the Aethiopians”. This volume seeks to present current research that centers Nubian history and archaeology and imparts this information from new, anti-racist perspectives.  By publishing these studies in Gorgias Studies in the Ancient Near East series, we aim to bring research on Nubia to a wider scholarly audience, with the goals of broadening Nubiology’s impact on Egyptological, classical, and biblical scholarship, while challenging scholarly biases and disseminating knowledge of this ancient culture. By lifting up and centering the contributions of ancient Nubia, we expand our understanding of African achievements and influences on the ancient world
UR  - https://doi.org/10.31826/9781463243432
UR  - https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9781463243432
UR  - https://www.degruyter.com/document/cover/isbn/9781463243432/original
ER  -