New Perspectives on Ancient Nubia

Published by Gorgias Press 2024

New Perspectives on Ancient Nubia

Edited by: Solange Ashby and Aaron Brody

Volume 17 in the series Gorgias Studies in the Ancient Near East

https://doi.org/10.31826/9781463243432

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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.

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Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	i
TABLE OF CONTENTS Publicly Available Download PDF	v
Contributors Publicly Available Download PDF	vii
Foreword Aaron J. Brody Publicly Available Download PDF	ix
Introduction Vanessa Davies Publicly Available Download PDF	xiii
The First Empire of Kush: Delegitimizing the Colonial Trope of the Black Pharaohs Salim Faraji Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	1
Exhibiting ‘New Perspectives’: Creating a Virtual and Collaborative Exhibition on Ancient Nubia Melissa S. Cradic, Jess Johnson, Brooke E. Norton and Samuel D. Pfister Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	17
Teaching Ancient Nubia: Integrating Kush in K-12 Curriculum Sydney A. Pickens Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	33
Beyond Cultural Entanglements: Experiencing the New Kingdom Colonization of Nubia ‘from Below’ Rennan Lemos Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	53
Nubia as a Place of Refuge: Nile Valley Resistance against Foreign Invasion Solange Ashby and Talawa Adodo Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	95
Blurring Boundaries: Towards a more integrative view of Nubian–Egyptian interactions Aaron de Souza Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	117
On the relationship between Meroitic and Nigerian aegides Sandro Capo Chichi Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	147
Monsters in the Bed: Furniture, Composite Creatures, and Kerma International Relations Carl Walsh Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	177
Kushites in the Hebrew Bible: Theological and Historical Perspectives Kevin Burrell Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	219
Kings of the Two Lands: the importance of audience for royal monuments of Twenty-Fifth Dynasty Egypt and Nubia Kathryn Howley Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	265
Animals in the Kerma Afterlife: Animal Burials and Ritual at Abu Fatima Cemetery Shayla Monroe Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	289

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Language: English
Publisher: Gorgias Press
Audience: College/higher education;
Pages
- Main content: 345
Keywords: History; General; Ancient

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Published: September 30, 2024
ISBN: 9781463243432