Author : Tyson L. Putthoff
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 269 pages
File Size : 18,29 MB
Release : 2020-11-05
Category : History
ISBN : 1108490549
Gods have always lived among humans. But long ago, they also lived inside us, sharing their nature with mere mortals.
Author : Tyson L. Putthoff
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 269 pages
File Size : 38,68 MB
Release : 2020-11-05
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 1108846424
In this book, Tyson Putthoff explores the relationship between gods and humans, and between divine nature and human nature, in the Ancient Near East. In this world, gods lived among humans. The two groups shared the world with one another, each playing a special role in maintaining order in the cosmos. Humans also shared aspects of a godlike nature. Even in their natural condition, humans enjoyed a taste of the divine state. Indeed, gods not only lived among humans, but also they lived inside them, taking up residence in the physical body. As such, human nature was actually a composite of humanity and divinity. Putthoff offers new insights into the ancients' understanding of humanity's relationship with the gods, providing a comparative study of this phenomenon from the third millennium BCE to the first century CE.
Author : Douglas R. Frayne
Publisher : Penn State Press
Page : 443 pages
File Size : 36,39 MB
Release : 2021-02-08
Category : Religion
ISBN : 1646021290
From the tragic young Adonis to Zašhapuna, first among goddesses, this handbook provides the most complete information available on deities from the cultures and religions of the ancient Near East, including Anatolia, Syria, Israel, Sumer, Babylonia, Assyria, and Elam. The result of nearly fifteen years of research, this handbook is more expansive and covers a wider range of sources and civilizations than any previous reference works on the topic. Arranged alphabetically, the entries range from multiple pages of information to a single line—sometimes all that we know about a given deity. Where possible, each record discusses the deity’s symbolism and imagery, connecting it to the myths, rituals, and festivals described in ancient sources. Many of the entries are accompanied by illustrations that aid in understanding the iconography, and they all include references to texts in which the god or goddess is mentioned. Appropriate for both trained scholars and nonacademic readers, this book collects centuries of Near Eastern mythology into one volume. It will be an especially valuable resource for anyone interested in Assyriology, ancient religion, and the ancient Near East.
Author : Raija Mattila
Publisher : Springer
Page : 487 pages
File Size : 13,53 MB
Release : 2019-03-11
Category : History
ISBN : 3658243880
While Human-Animal Studies is a rapidly growing field in modern history, studies on this topic that focus on the Ancient World are few. The present volume aims at closing this gap. It investigates the relation between humans, animals, gods, and things with a special focus on the structure of these categories. An improved understanding of the ancient categories themselves is a precondition for any investigation into the relation between them. The focus of the volume lies on the Ancient Near East, but it also provides studies on Ancient Greece, Asia Minor, Mesoamerica, the Far East, and Arabia.
Author : Edwin Oliver James
Publisher :
Page : 364 pages
File Size : 42,23 MB
Release : 1964
Category : Gods, Assyro-Babylonian
ISBN :
Author : Henri Frankfort
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 512 pages
File Size : 34,32 MB
Release : 1978-07-15
Category : Religion
ISBN : 0226260119
This classic study clearly establishes a fundamental difference in viewpoint between the peoples of ancient Egypt and Mesopotamia. By examining the forms of kingship which evolved in the two countries, Frankfort discovered that beneath resemblances fostered by similar cultural growth and geographical location lay differences based partly upon the natural conditions under which each society developed. The river flood which annually renewed life in the Nile Valley gave Egyptians a cheerful confidence in the permanence of established things and faith in life after death. Their Mesopotamian contemporaries, however, viewed anxiously the harsh, hostile workings of nature. Frank's superb work, first published in 1948 and now supplemented with a preface by Samuel Noah Kramer, demonstrates how the Egyptian and Mesopotamian attitudes toward nature related to their concept of kingship. In both countries the people regarded the king as their mediator with the gods, but in Mesopotamia the king was only the foremost citizen, while in Egypt the ruler was a divine descendant of the gods and the earthly representative of the God Horus.
Author : Adrian Kelly
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 355 pages
File Size : 20,22 MB
Release : 2021-05-06
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 1108570240
This volume centres on one of the most important questions in the study of antiquity – the interaction between Greece and the Ancient Near East, from the Mycenaean to the Hellenistic periods. Focusing on the stories that the peoples of the eastern Mediterranean told about the gods and their relationships with humankind, the individual treatments draw together specialists from both fields, creating for the first time a truly interdisciplinary synthesis. Old cases are re-examined, new examples discussed, and the whole range of scholarly opinions, past and present, are analysed, critiqued, and contextualised. While direct textual comparisons still have something to show us, the methodologies advanced here turn their attention to deeper structures and wider dynamics of interaction and influence that respect the cultural autonomy and integrity of all the ancient participants.
Author : Dr. John L. McLaughlin
Publisher : Abingdon Press
Page : 166 pages
File Size : 33,32 MB
Release : 2012-10-01
Category : Religion
ISBN : 1426765509
The cultures of the great empires of the ancient Near East from Egypt to Mesopotamia influenced Israel's religion, literature, and laws because of Israel's geographic location and political position situation. Anyone who wishes to understand the Old Testament texts and the history of ancient Israel must become familiar with the history, literature, and society of the surrounding kingdoms that at times controlled the region. Brief in presentation yet broad in scope, Ancient Near East will introduce students to the information and ideas essential to understanding the texts of the Old Testament while clarifying difficult issues concerning the relationship between Israel and its neighbors. Abingdon Essential Guides fulfill the need for brief, substantive, yet highly accessible introductions to the core disciplines in biblical, theological, and religious studies.
Author :
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 334 pages
File Size : 12,37 MB
Release : 2022-01-04
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9004502521
This volume is an interdisciplinary investigation and contextualization of the various concepts of divine union in the private and public sphere of the Greek and Near Eastern worlds.
Author : Esther J. Hamori
Publisher :
Page : 185 pages
File Size : 14,45 MB
Release : 2008-08-27
Category :
ISBN : 9783119166263
This study begins with the analysis of a type of divine appearance in the Old Testament, here called human theophany, in which God is described as having a concrete human form. The book includes a delineation of various types of anthropomorphism (such as God appearing in concrete human form, as opposed to only in dreams), analysis of the implications of human theophany for ancient Israelite, Canaanite and Near Eastern religion, and discussion of human theophany in relation to appearances of angels.It also includes discussion of philosophical approaches to anthropomorphism."
