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SUMMARY:Theology of Liberation in the Second Millennium BCE
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DESCRIPTION:Around 1400 BCE\, Hittite scribes recorded a Hurrian epic 
 poem entitled “Song of Liberation” in a bilingual Hurro-Hittite ed
 ition\, in cuneiform script on clay tablets. Fragments of these tablet
 s were discovered in 1983 CE in the excavations at Hattusha\, capital 
 city of Hatti. The poem tells a mytho-historical tale turning on the g
 ods’ demand that the city of Ebla release the people of another city
 \, Igingallish\, whom they have subjected. The storm god promises pros
 perity and military success if the Eblaites release the people of Igin
 gallish\, and threatens to annihilate their city if they do not. But t
 he senate of Ebla refuses to grant release\, exercising their liberty 
 as a body of free men to deny liberty to those who serve them. The cit
 y of Ebla was indeed destroyed around 1600 BCE\, and this poem explain
 s why. What was the condition of liberty to which the gods demanded th
 at the subjected people be released\, and why did this interest the sc
 ribes of Hatti two centuries later?
LOCATION:ISAW Lecture Hall
CONTACT:isaw@nyu.edu
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