Divine secrets and human imaginations: studies on the history of religion and anthropology of the Ancient Near East and the Old Testament
Cover -- Title -- Preface -- List of First Publications -- Table of Contents -- Abbreviations -- I. Divine Secrets -- Divine Secrets and Human Imaginations in Mesopotamia in the First Millennium B.C.E -- Refreshed Cultic Kisses: Forms of Encounter between Gods and Humans -- Emergency Measures: Ancie...
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| Format: | Electronic Book |
| Language: | English |
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Tübingen
Mohr Siebeck
2021
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| In: | Year: 2021 |
| Series/Journal: | Orientalische Religionen in der Antike
42 |
| Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains: | B
Old Testament
/ Experience of God
/ Knowability of God
/ Exegesis
/ Theology
B Ancient Orient / Cult / Religious experience B Ancient Orient / Gods / Religious experience / Mythology |
| IxTheo Classification: | HB Old Testament |
| Further subjects: | B
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| Summary: | Cover -- Title -- Preface -- List of First Publications -- Table of Contents -- Abbreviations -- I. Divine Secrets -- Divine Secrets and Human Imaginations in Mesopotamia in the First Millennium B.C.E -- Refreshed Cultic Kisses: Forms of Encounter between Gods and Humans -- Emergency Measures: Ancient Near Eastern Reports on Postwar Temple Cults -- "Gods Who Dwell in Hiding/Secrecy": Critical Cases in Ancient Near Eastern Temple Theology -- The Makeover, Restitution, Repatriation and Return of the Gods in First Millennium Mesopotamia -- From One Theology to Many Theologies in Babylonia -- Cultic Reforms: Innovation as Restoration in Uruk and Yehud. Observations on Processes of Transformation in Ancient Near Eastern Societies -- The Reduction of Complexity: The Theological Profile of a Deity and Its Iconographic Expression. The God Aššur in First-Millennium B.C.E. Assyria as a Case Study -- II. Human Imaginations -- Human Sin and Divine Sanction: The Ethics of Divine Justice in Ancient Near Eastern and Old Testament Texts -- The Metaphor of the Bird and the Discourse on Life and Death: Life and Death according to the Imaginations of the Israelites -- Images of the Dead - Images for the Living: Life and Death in the Iconography of Ancient Mesopotamia, Egypt and Palestine -- Continuity and Variability of a Purification Ritual in Num 19 and at Qumran: Observations on the Dynamics of Ritual Change -- False Prophetesses: On the Demonization of Women in Ezekiel 13:17-21 -- The Memory of Assyria in Nahum 2:4-3:19 -- Disaster and Relief Management: Towards a Cultural History of Catastrophe -- Signs of Connectedness and the Media of Memory: Religio-historical and Theological Observations on Deut 6:6-9 and Related Texts -- Against the Joy and Forgetting in Exile: Observations on Ps 137 -- What is "Ashdodite"? Observations on Neh 13:23-24 and Zech 9:6. |
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| ISBN: | 3161600983 |