Gods Demons And Symbols Of Ancient Mesopotamia
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Author | : Jeremy A. Black |
Publisher | : British museum Press |
Total Pages | : 200 |
Release | : 1992 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : |
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Ancient Mesopotamia was a highly complex culture whose achievements included the invention of writing. This illustrated text offers a reference guide to Mesopotamian religion, mythology and magic between about 3000 BC and the advent of the Christian era. Gods, goddesses, demons, monsters, magic, myths, religious symbolism, rituals and the spiritual world are all discussed in alphabetical entries ranging from short accounts to extended essays.
Author | : Jeremy A. Black |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 192 |
Release | : 1998 |
Genre | : Iraq |
ISBN | : |
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Author | : Jeremy Black |
Publisher | : University of Texas Press |
Total Pages | : 192 |
Release | : 1992-05-01 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 9780292707948 |
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Ancient Mesopotamia was a rich, varied and highly complex culture whose achievements included the invention of writing and the development of sophisticated urban society. This book offers an introductory guide to the beliefs and customs of the ancient Mesopotamians, as revealed in their art and their writings between about 3000 B.C. and the advent of the Christian era. Gods, goddesses, demons, monsters, magic, myths, religious symbolism, ritual, and the spiritual world are all discussed in alphabetical entries ranging from short accounts to extended essays. Names are given in both their Sumerian and Akkadian forms, and all entries are fully cross-referenced. A useful introduction provides historical and geographical background and describes the sources of our knowledge about the religion, mythology and magic of "the cradle of civilisation".
Author | : Jeremy Black |
Publisher | : Yale University Press |
Total Pages | : 450 |
Release | : 2000-01-01 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0300082851 |
Download War and the World Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle
An attempt to write a global history of warfare in the modern era. Jeremy Black, here presents a wide-ranging account of the nature, purpose and experience of war over the last half millennium.
Author | : |
Publisher | : BRILL |
Total Pages | : 334 |
Release | : 2022-01-04 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 9004502521 |
Download Conceptualising Divine Unions in the Greek and Near Eastern Worlds Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle
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 | : Tallay Ornan |
Publisher | : Saint-Paul |
Total Pages | : 318 |
Release | : 2005 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9783525530078 |
Download The Triumph of the Symbol Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle
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 | : Jean Bottéro |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 246 |
Release | : 2004 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 9780226067186 |
Download Religion in Ancient Mesopotamia Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle
A well written guide to Mesopotamian religion by one of the world's foremost Assyriologists. Bottero studies the public and private relationships between the people and the divine, their cosmology, hymns and prayers, rituals, myths and magic.
Author | : Britannica Educational Publishing |
Publisher | : Britannica Educational Publishing |
Total Pages | : 115 |
Release | : 2014-01-01 |
Genre | : Juvenile Nonfiction |
ISBN | : 1622751620 |
Download Mesopotamian Gods & Goddesses Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle
Mesopotamian religion was one of the earliest religious systems to develop withand in turn influencea high civilization. Followed by the Sumerians, Akkadians, Babylonians, and Assyrians, Mesopotamian religion and mythology reflected the complexities of these societies and has been preserved in remnants of their cultural, economic, and political institutions. This absorbing volume provides a glimpse of the cradle of civilization by examining Mesopotamian religious and mythological beliefs as well as some of the many gods and goddesses at the core of their stories and also looks at epicssuch as that of Gilgameshand other aspects of Mesopotamian life.
Author | : Tammi J. Schneider |
Publisher | : Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing |
Total Pages | : 157 |
Release | : 2011-06 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0802829597 |
Download An Introduction to Ancient Mesopotamian Religion Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle
A fascinating look at ancient Middle Eastern religious belief and practice
Author | : Karen Rhea Nemet-Nejat |
Publisher | : Baker Academic |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2001-12-01 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 9780801047305 |
Download Daily Life in Ancient Mesopotamia Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle
The ancient world of Mesopotamia (from Sumer to the subsequent division into Babylonia and Assyria) vividly comes alive in this portrayal of the time period from 3100 BCE to the fall of Assyria (612 BCE) and Babylon (539 BCE). Readers will discover fascinating details about the lives of these people taken from the ancients' own descriptions. Beautifully illustrated, this easy-to-use reference contains a timeline and a historical overview to aid student research.