The Human and the Divine : Aspects of Sanctity in Time and Space /

The Human and the Divine : Aspects of Sanctity in Time and Space /

This volume offers detailed insights into both familiar and overlooked aspects of how humans engage with sanctity and the divine in various cultures of Mesopotamia, the Mediterranean, and Beyond. Each chapter is dedicated to a specific theme-whether a region or phenomenon-from Prehistoric times to t...

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Other Authors: Ulanowski, Krzysztof (Editor)

Format: eBook

Language: English

Published: Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2025.

Series: Biblical Studies, Ancient Near East and Early Christianity E-Books Online, Collection 2025.
Culture and History of the Ancient Near East ; 142.

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Ancient Near East and Egypt.

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Call Number: BS709.4

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Table of Contents:
  • Acknowledgements
  • List of Figures
  • Introduction: "Grounded Sanctity, yet Still in Motion" in the Context of the Discussion about Sacred Places in Antiquity
  • Krzysztof Ulanowski
  • Keynote: Sacred Places, Holy Spaces
  • David A. Warburton
  • Part1 The Mesopotamian World
  • 1 Travelling the Mesopotamian Spaceways: Time and Space and an Ancient City
  • Piotr Michałowski
  • 2 Continuity and Change of a Sacred Space: The Evidence of Two Burials from the Old Akkadian Ekur
  • Bernhard Schneider
  • 3 How to Destroy Sacredness? Some Insights from Sumerian Cuneiform Texts
  • Noah Kröll and Sebastian Fink
  • 4 The "Juniper Garden": from a Setting of Divine Love to a Political Arena
  • Rocío Da Riva
  • 5 Can Accounting Be Sacred? The Case of First-Millennium Babylonian Temple
  • Michael Kozuh
  • Part2 The Mediterranean World and Beyond
  • 6 Some Notes on Prehistoric Sacred Places/Temples of Malta and Ancient Near Eastern Sanctuaries ( IX -Mid IV Millennia BC )
  • Vladimir Sazonov
  • 7 Agalma and " Hierai Hodoi " in Samos and Didyma
  • Sławomir M. Bobola
  • 8 Sacred Landscape of the Muses
  • Tomasz Mojsik
  • 9 The Raven as a Sacred Bird of Odin and Apollo: A Comparative Approach to the Near Eastern, Greek and Viking Ornithomancy and Cleromancy
  • Krzysztof Ulanowski
  • 10 Basque Sacred Places in the Past and at Present: Cultural Change and Memory
  • Katarzyna Mirgos
  • Postface: Synthesis
  • David A. Warburton
  • Index.