Greek religion and culture, the Bible, and the ancient Near East /
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In the last decades there has been an increasing interest in the relationship between Greek religion andamp; culture and the Ancient Near East. This challenging book contributes greatly to this interest by studying the Near Eastern background of important Greek myths, such as those of the creation of the world and the first woman, the Flood, the Golden Fleece, the Titans and travelling seers, but also of the births of Attis and Asclepius as well as the origins of the terms 'paradise' and 'magic'. It also shows that, in turn, Greek literature influenced Jewish stories of divine epiphanies and that the Greek scapegoat myths and rituals contributed to the central Christian notion of atonement.
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1 online resource. :
Includes bibliographical references (p. [357]-400) and index. :
9789047432715 :
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Religious identities in the Levant from Alexander to Muhammed : continuity and change /
: "This volume stems from the conference Continuity and change: religious identities in the Levant from Alexander to Muhammed held at the Danish Institute in Damascus in March 2010"--Page 1. : xxxvi, 422 pages : illustrations, maps ; 28 cm : Includes bibliographical references and indexes. : 9782503544458
Homeland and exile : biblical and ancient Near Eastern studies in honour of Bustenay Oded /
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This volume is a scholarly tribute to Bustenay Oded's distinguished career from some of the many contemporaries, colleagues, and former students who not only admire, and keep being inspired by his achievements, but who also count him as a friend. The title points to the remarkable span of Bustenay Oded 's research and research interests. Accordingly, the Festschrift's thirty original contributions deal with a wide range of topics, focusing on the Assyrian Empire, as well as on the Hebrew Bible and other cultural contents.
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1 online resource. :
"Works by Professor Bustenay Oded": pages [xi]-xvi.
Includes bibliographical references and indexes. :
9789047441243 :
0083-5889 ; :
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Cultures in contact : from Mesopotamia to the Mediterranean in the second millennium B.C. /
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"Most of the essays published in this volume were presented at "The Raymond and Beverly Sackler Symposium: Beyond Babylon: art, trade and diplomacy in the second millennium B.C." held on December 18 and 19, 2008 and "The Friends of Inanna scholars' day workshop" held on February 4, 2009 ... held at The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York"-- Title page verso.
"The Metropolitan Museum of Art Symposia". :
xvii, 354 pages : illustrations (some color), maps (some color) ; 26 cm. :
Includes bibliographical references (p. 320-352). :
9780300185034
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Mobile pastoralism and the formation of Near Eastern civilizations : weaving together society /
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"In this book, Anne Porter explores the idea that mobile and sedentary members of the ancient world were integral parts of the same social and political groups in greater Mesopotamia during the period 4000 to 1500 BCE. She draws on a wide range of archaeological and cuneiform sources to show how networks of social structure, political and religious ideology, and everyday as well as ritual practice, worked to maintain the integrity of those groups when the pursuit of different subsistence activities dispersed them over space. These networks were dynamic, shaping many of the key events and innovations of the time, including the Uruk expansion and the introduction of writing, so-called secondary state formation and the organization and operation of government, the literary production of the Third Dynasty of Ur and the first stories of Gilgamesh, and the emergence of the Amorrites in the second millennium BCE" --
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x, 389 pages : illustrations, maps ; 27 cm. :
Includes bibliographical references and index. :
9780521764438
Egypt and the Levant : interrelations from the 4th through the early 3rd millennium BCE /
: Proceedings of an international conference held at the Nelson Gluek School of Biblical Archaeology at the Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion in Jerusalem, 1998. : xxi, 547 pages : illustrations, maps ; 29 cm. : Includes bibliographical references and index. : 0718502620
Audias fabulas veteres : Anatolian studies in honor of Jana Součková-Siegelová /
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The publication Audias fabulas veteres. Anatolian Studies in Honor of Jana Součková-Siegelová contains 31 contributions on current research topics in the fields of Ancient Anatolian and Near Eastern Languages, History, Religion, and Literature. The topics cover not only the main languages of this geographical area, such as Hittite, Luwian, Hattian, Hurrian, Akkadian, and Sumerian but also comparative linguistics and the latest methods of digitalising cuneiform texts, as well as religion, mythology and divinities, rituals, proverbs and analysis of geographical and historical documentation. Finally, it offers new analyses of some of the most remarkable texts and text passages of the ancient Anatolian literary tradition.
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1 online resource (xl, 518 pages) :
Includes bibliographical references and indexes. :
9789004312616 :
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