Nicola Laneri (Italy University of Catania)

From Ritual to God in the Ancient Near East

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Produktbeschreibung

This book traces the transformation of the belief systems that shaped life in ancient Near Eastern communities, from prehistoric times until the advent of religious monotheism in the Levant during the first millennium BCE. It offers new insights into the symbolic value embodied in the religious materiality produced in the ancient Near East.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 266
• Erscheinungstermin: 9. Mai 2024
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 232mm x 156mm x 21mm
• Gewicht: 532g
• ISBN-13: 9781009306645
• ISBN-10: 1009306642
• Artikelnr.: 69939165

Autorenporträt

Nicola Laneri is professor of Near Eastern Archaeology at the University of Catania, Director of the School of Religious Studies, and has been Fulbright Research Scholar in the Department of Anthropology at Columbia University. He has directed archaeological work at sites in Turkey, Azarbaijan, Iran, and Iraq.

Inhaltsangabe

I. In the Name of the Spirits: Humans and Natural Environments: 1.
Materializing the human body: the cult of ancestors among Ancient Near
Eastern societies; 2. Sacred nature: deer, water, and the supernatural in
Anatolia during Bronze Age; II. For the Glory of the Gods: Architecture,
Icons, and Material Symbols for Encountering the Divine: 3. Constructing
cosmotheism: temples, writing, and the creation of divine Pantheons in
Ancient Mesopotamia; 4. Imagining the divine: consecrating and venerating
cultic images in the Ancient Near East; III. A New Era: Toward the
Emergence of Monotheism: 5. One God in one temple: religious aniconism and
the rise of monotheism in the Southern Levant during the First Millenium
BCE.