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Liminal People(s) in the Late Bronze Age Levant? A New Light on Sherden (šerdanu)

Liminal People(s) in the Late Bronze Age Levant? A New Light on Sherden (šerdanu) AbstractThis article focuses on issues related to political liminality in the environment of the Levant in the Late Bronze Age. It first defines the term and then identifies key population groups that can be considered politically liminal. The main focus is on the so-called Sherden (Akk. šerdanu, širdanu), a group of persons and individuals, which are found in ancient Near Eastern and Egyptian sources spanning several centuries during the second half of the second half of the second millennium BCE. Whether as incoming enemies or as individuals settled on Egyptian soil, they represent one of the key phenomena of the Egyptian New Kingdom. But who were the Sherden and how did their role in the ancient Near Eastern and Egyptian societies change over time? http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Journal of Ancient Near Eastern History de Gruyter

Liminal People(s) in the Late Bronze Age Levant? A New Light on Sherden (šerdanu)

Journal of Ancient Near Eastern History , Volume 9 (2): 20 – Nov 1, 2022

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de Gruyter
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© 2022 Walter de Gruyter GmbH, Berlin/Boston
ISSN
2328-9562
eISSN
2328-9562
DOI
10.1515/janeh-2021-0010
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Abstract

AbstractThis article focuses on issues related to political liminality in the environment of the Levant in the Late Bronze Age. It first defines the term and then identifies key population groups that can be considered politically liminal. The main focus is on the so-called Sherden (Akk. šerdanu, širdanu), a group of persons and individuals, which are found in ancient Near Eastern and Egyptian sources spanning several centuries during the second half of the second half of the second millennium BCE. Whether as incoming enemies or as individuals settled on Egyptian soil, they represent one of the key phenomena of the Egyptian New Kingdom. But who were the Sherden and how did their role in the ancient Near Eastern and Egyptian societies change over time?

Journal

Journal of Ancient Near Eastern Historyde Gruyter

Published: Nov 1, 2022

Keywords: political liminality; ethnicity; Late Bronze Age; Levant; Sherden

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