RT Book
T1 Goddesses in context: on divine powers, roles, relationships and gender in Mesopotamian textual and visual sources
T2 Orbis biblicus et orientalis
JF Orbis biblicus et orientalis
A2 Asher-Greve, Julia M.
A2 Goddnick Westenholz, Joan -2013
A2 Westenholz, Joan Goodnick 1943-2013
LA English
LA German
PP Fribourg
PB Academic Press
YR 2013
UL https://www.ixtheo.de/Record/752424777
AB This book examines from different perspectives some of the most challenging themes in Mesopotamian religion such as gender switch of deities and changes of the status, roles and functions of goddesses. The authors incorporate recent scholarship from various disciplines into their analysis of textual and visual sources, representations in diverse media, theological strategies, typologies, and the place of image in religion and cult over a span of three millennia. Different types of syncretism (fusion, fission, mutation) resulted in transformation and homogenization of goddesses' roles and functions. The processes of syncretism (a useful heuristic tool for studying the evolution of religions and the attendant political and social changes) and gender switch were facilitated by the fluidity of personality due to multiple or similar divine roles and functions
NO Literaturverz. S. [301] - 355
CN BL1625.G6
SN 9783727817380
SN 9783525543825
K1 Assyro-Babylonian religion
K1 Sumerians : Religion
K1 Akkadians : Religion
K1 Goddesses
K1 Goddesses in art