The Worshipper Before Symbols on Selected Neo-babylonian Stamp Seals
Author : Constance Ellen Gane
Publisher :
Page : 592 pages
File Size : 36,8 MB
Release : 1990
Category : Seals (Numismatics)
ISBN :
Author : Constance Ellen Gane
Publisher :
Page : 592 pages
File Size : 36,8 MB
Release : 1990
Category : Seals (Numismatics)
ISBN :
Author : Samuel E. Balentine
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 640 pages
File Size : 36,8 MB
Release : 2020-09-16
Category : Religion
ISBN : 0190944935
Ritual has a primal connection to the idea that a transcendent order - numinous and mysterious, supranatural and elusive, divine and wholly other - gives meaning and purpose to life. The construction of rites and rituals enables humans to conceive and apprehend this transcendent order, to symbolize it and interact with it, to postulate its truths in the face of contradicting realities and to repair them when they have been breached or diminished. This Handbook provides a compendium of the information essential for constructing a comprehensive and integrated account of ritual and worship in the ancient world. Its focus on ritual and worship from the perspective of biblical studies, as opposed to religious studies, highlights that the world of ritual and worship was a topic of central concern for the people of the Ancient Near East, including the world of the Bible. Given the scarcity of the material in the Bible itself, the authors in this collection use materials from the ancient Near East to provide a larger context for the practices of the biblical world, giving due attention to historical, anthropological, and social scientific methods that inform the context of biblical worship. The specifics of ritual and worship life-the sacred spaces, times, and actors in worship-are examined in detail, with essays covering both the divine and human aspects of the sacred dimension. The Oxford Handbook of Ritual and Worship in the Hebrew Bible considers several underlying concepts of ritual practice and closes with a theological outlook on worship and ritual from a variety of perspectives, demonstrating a fruitful exchange between biblical studies, ritual theory, and social science research.
Author : Eva Møller
Publisher : Museum Tusculanum Press
Page : 106 pages
File Size : 29,69 MB
Release : 1992
Category : Antiques & Collectibles
ISBN : 9788772890807
Identification and classification of a private Danish collection of seals, which were acquired in Baghdad over a number of years more than 30 years ago. The collection covers a period extending from the late Ubaid to the Sasanian dynasty, c. 4000 BC -- 642 AD, and includes twenty-five cylinder seals from the Late Uruk period to Early Dynastic I, nine Early Dynastic II-III seals, eleven Akkadian and Post-Akkadian, six Neo-Sumerian, eight Old Babylonian, three seals of the second half of the second millennium BC, thirteen Neo-Assyrian and Neo-Babylonian stamp and cylinder seals, three seals of the second half of the first millennium BC, three bullae and a stamp seal of Seleucid date, thirty Sasanian stamp seals, and finally four fragmentary seals of uncertain date. The seals are listed in chronological order by period. The middle chronology has been used for dating.
Author : Tallay Ornan
Publisher : Saint-Paul
Page : 318 pages
File Size : 34,41 MB
Release : 2005
Category : History
ISBN : 9783525530078
This book analyzes the history of Mesopotamian imagery form the mid-second to mid-first millennium BCE. It demonstrates that in spite of rich textual evidence, which grants the Mesopotamian gods and goddesses an anthropmorphic form, there was a clear abstention in various media from visualizing the gods in such a form. True, divine human-shaped cultic images existed in Mesopotamian temples. But as a rule, non-anthropomorphic visual agents such as inanimate objects, animals or fantastic hybrids replaced these figures when they were portrayed outside of their sacred enclosures. This tendency reached its peak in first-millennium Babylonia and Assyria. The removal of the Mesopotamian human-shaped deity from pictorial renderings resembles the Biblical agenda not only in its avoidance of displaying a divine image but also in the implied dual perception of the divine: according to the Bible and the Assyro-Babylonian concept the divine was conceived as having a human form; yet in both cases anthropomorphism was also concealed or rejected, though to a different degree. In the present book, this dual approach toward the divine image is considered as a reflection of two associated rather than contradictory religious worldviews. The plausible consolidation of the relevant Biblical accounts just before the Babylonian Exile, or more probably within the Exile - in both cases during a period of strong Assyrian and Babylonian hegemony - points to a direct correspondence between comparable religious phenomena. It is suggested that far from their homeland and in the absence of a temple for their god, the Judahite deportees adopted and intensified the Mesopotamian avoidance of anthropomorphic picorial portrayals of deities. While the Babylonian representations remained confined to temples, the exiles would have turned a cultic reality - i.e., the nonwritten Babylonian custom - into a written, articulated law that explicity forbade the pictorial representation of God.
Author : Ashmolean Museum
Publisher :
Page : 148 pages
File Size : 23,21 MB
Release : 1988
Category : Antiques & Collectibles
ISBN :
This book is the first to provide complete commentary on the seals most widely used in the Near East from about 1200 B.C. to the time of Alexander the Great. It offers both a detailed catalogue, of interest to scholars, and general information for the non-specialist collector.
Author : Dominique Collon
Publisher :
Page : 72 pages
File Size : 27,20 MB
Release : 1990
Category : Antiques & Collectibles
ISBN :
Author : Benjamin Sass
Publisher : Saint-Paul
Page : 376 pages
File Size : 42,48 MB
Release : 1993
Category : History
ISBN : 9783525537602
Author : British Museum
Publisher :
Page : 252 pages
File Size : 34,51 MB
Release : 1997
Category : Antiquities
ISBN :
Author : Yitzhak Sefati
Publisher : Eisenbrauns
Page : 806 pages
File Size : 50,86 MB
Release : 2005
Category : Foreign Language Study
ISBN :
Essays on the ancient history, culture, and literature of Sumer, Babylonia, Assyria, and Israel.
Author :
Publisher :
Page : 462 pages
File Size : 47,48 MB
Release : 1960
Category : Archaeology
ISBN :
Embodying the Quarterly statement of the Palestine Exploration Fund.