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| Author | : Spencer L. Allen |
| Publisher | : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG |
| Total Pages | : 438 |
| Release | : 2015-03-05 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 1501500228 |
This book investigates the issue of the singularity versus the multiplicity of ancient Near Eastern deities who are known by a common first name but differentiated by their last names, or geographic epithets. It focuses primarily on the Ištar divine names in Mesopotamia, Baal names in the Levant, and Yahweh names in Israel, and it is structured around four key questions: How did the ancients define what it meant to be a god - or more pragmatically, what kind of treatment did a personality or object need to receive in order to be considered a god by the ancients? Upon what bases and according to which texts do modern scholars determine when a personality or object is a god in an ancient culture? In what ways are deities with both first and last names treated the same and differently from deities with only first names? Under what circumstances are deities with common first names and different last names recognizable as distinct independent deities, and under what circumstances are they merely local manifestations of an overarching deity? The conclusions drawn about the singularity of local manifestations versus the multiplicity of independent deities are specific to each individual first name examined in accordance with the data and texts available for each divine first name.
| Author | : Spencer L. Allen |
| Publisher | : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG |
| Total Pages | : 480 |
| Release | : 2015-03-05 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 1614512361 |
This book investigates the issue of the singularity versus the multiplicity of ancient Near Eastern deities who are known by a common first name but differentiated by their last names, or geographic epithets. It focuses primarily on the Ištar divine names in Mesopotamia, Baal names in the Levant, and Yahweh names in Israel, and it is structured around four key questions: How did the ancients define what it meant to be a god - or more pragmatically, what kind of treatment did a personality or object need to receive in order to be considered a god by the ancients? Upon what bases and according to which texts do modern scholars determine when a personality or object is a god in an ancient culture? In what ways are deities with both first and last names treated the same and differently from deities with only first names? Under what circumstances are deities with common first names and different last names recognizable as distinct independent deities, and under what circumstances are they merely local manifestations of an overarching deity? The conclusions drawn about the singularity of local manifestations versus the multiplicity of independent deities are specific to each individual first name examined in accordance with the data and texts available for each divine first name.
| Author | : Mark S. Smith |
| Publisher | : Yale University Press |
| Total Pages | : 244 |
| Release | : 2016-06-28 |
| Genre | : Religion |
| ISBN | : 0300220960 |
The issue of how to represent God is a concern both ancient and contemporary. In this wide-ranging and authoritative study, renowned biblical scholar Mark Smith investigates the symbols, meanings, and narratives in the Hebrew Bible, Ugaritic texts, and ancient iconography, which attempt to describe deities in relation to humans. Smith uses a novel approach to show how the Bible depicts God in human and animal forms—and sometimes both together. Mediating between the ancients’ theories and the work of modern thinkers, Smith’s boldly original work uncovers the foundational understandings of deities and space.
| Author | : Michael J. Stahl |
| Publisher | : BRILL |
| Total Pages | : 498 |
| Release | : 2021-03-22 |
| Genre | : Religion |
| ISBN | : 9004447725 |
In The “God of Israel” in History and Tradition, Michael Stahl examines the historical and ideological significances of the formulaic title “god of Israel” (’elohe yisra’el) in the Hebrew Bible using critical theory on social power and identity.
| Author | : John L. McLaughlin |
| Publisher | : Paulist Press |
| Total Pages | : 174 |
| Release | : 2016 |
| Genre | : Religion |
| ISBN | : 1587686511 |
This volume explores recent scholarship on ancient Israelite religion, focusing on the deities of ancient Israel. The scholarship begins in 1980, although some earlier works are cited.
| Author | : Eric M. Trinka |
| Publisher | : Routledge |
| Total Pages | : 306 |
| Release | : 2022-02-28 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 1000544087 |
This book examines the relationship between mobility, lived religiosities, and conceptions of divine personhood as they are preserved in textual corpora and material culture from Israel, Judah, Egypt, and Mesopotamia. By integrating evidence of the form and function of religiosities in contexts of mobility and migration, this volume reconstructs mobility-informed aspects of civic and household religiosities in Israel and its world. Readers will find a robust theoretical framework for studying cultures of mobility and religiosities in the ancient past, as well as a fresh understanding of the scope and texture of mobility-informed religious identities that composed broader Yahwistic religious heritage. Cultures of Mobility, Migration, and Religion in Ancient Israel and Its World will be of use to both specialists and informed readers interested in the history of mobilities and migrations in the ancient Near East, as well as those interested in the development of Yahwism in its biblical and extra-biblical forms.
| Author | : Stephen C. Russell |
| Publisher | : BRILL |
| Total Pages | : 228 |
| Release | : 2020-07-13 |
| Genre | : Religion |
| ISBN | : 9004437673 |
Mighty Baal offers a fresh portrait of the ancient Near Eastern god Baal. Its eleven essays are written in honor of Mark S. Smith, who has been the leading historian of Baal over the last four decades.
| Author | : Alicia Maravelia |
| Publisher | : Archaeopress Publishing Ltd |
| Total Pages | : 582 |
| Release | : 2020-10-01 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 1789696402 |
Proceedings of a conference held in Athens in 2017, this volume presents 34 fresh and original papers (plus 2 abstracts) on ancient Egyptian religion, environment and the cosmos. Papers connect many interdisciplinary approaches including Egyptology, archaeology, archaeoastronomy, geography, botany, zoology, ornithology, theology and history.
| Author | : John C. Robinson |
| Publisher | : John Hunt Publishing |
| Total Pages | : 156 |
| Release | : 2016-09-30 |
| Genre | : Body, Mind & Spirit |
| ISBN | : 1780993358 |
With our unprecedented longevity, aging has become a new developmental stage in the human life cycle. Conscious sacred aging now offers humanity profound opportunities for psychological, spiritual and mystical transformation, expanding not only our lifespan but our awareness of God as well. What if we discover in this awakening that we are already divine? What if this realization transforms our very nature and purpose in the world? The Divine Human answers these questions and more, revealing the ultimate meaning of the New Aging.
| Author | : Yvonne Sherwood |
| Publisher | : Oxford University Press |
| Total Pages | : 730 |
| Release | : 2017 |
| Genre | : Religion |
| ISBN | : 0198722613 |
This groundbreaking book breaks with established canons and resists some of the stereotypes of feminist biblical studies. It features a wide range of contributors who showcase new methodological and theoretical movements such as feminist materialisms, intersectionality, postidentitarian 'nomadic' politics, gender archaeology, and lived religion, and theories of the human and the posthuman. The Bible and Feminism: Remapping the Field engages a range of social and political issues, including migration and xenophobia, divorce and family law, abortion, 'pinkwashing', the neoliberal university, the second amendment, AIDS and sexual trafficking, and the politics of 'the veil'. Foundational figures in feminist biblical studies work alongside new voices and contributors from a multitude of disciplines in conversations with the Bible that go well beyond the expected canon-within-the-canon assumed to be of interest to feminist biblical scholars. Moving beyond the limits of a text-orientated model of reading, this collection looks at how biblical texts were actualized in the lives of religious revolutionaries, such as Joanna Southcott or Sor Juana Ines de la Cruz. It charts the politics of the Pauline veil in the self-understanding of Europe and reads the 'genealogical halls' in the book of Chronicles alongside acts of commemoration and forgetting in 9/11 and Tiananmen Square.
