The articles in this volume of collected essays, written over the last two decades and all revised, updated, and supplemented with unpublished material, are grouped around two themes: Divine Secrets and Human Imaginations. The first essays deal with the production, initiation, use and function, the abduction, repatriation, and the replacement of divine images, their outer appearance, and the many facets of the divine presence theology in Ancient Mesopotamia. The essays on the second topic deal with human imaginations, human constructs, and constructed memories, which assign meaning to the past or to things or experiences that are beyond human control. Thematically, several aspects of the human condition are examined, such as the ideas associated in the Old Testament and the Ancient Near East with death, corporeality, enemies, disasters, utopias, and passionate love.
| ISBN: | 9783161600340 |
| Publication date: | 18th June 2021 |
| Author: | Angelika Berlejung |
| Publisher: | Mohr Siebeck |
| Format: | Hardback |
| Pagination: | 690 pages |
| Series: | Orientalische Religionen in Der Antike |
| Genres: |
Old Testaments Ancient Egyptian religion and mythology Ancient Greek religion and mythology Roman religion and mythology Theology Literary studies: ancient, classical and medieval Ancient history Archaeology by period / region Religion: general Judaism |
The articles in this volume of collected essays, written over the last two decades and all revised, updated, and supplemented with unpublished material, are grouped around two themes: Divine Secrets and Human Imaginations. The first essays deal with the production, initiation, use and function, the abduction, repatriation, and the replacement of divine images, their outer appearance, and the many facets of the divine presence theology in Ancient Mesopotamia. The essays on the second topic deal with human imaginations, human constructs, and constructed memories, which assign meaning to the past or to things or experiences that are beyond human control. Thematically, several aspects of the human condition are examined, such as the ideas associated in the Old Testament and the Ancient Near East with death, corporeality, enemies, disasters, utopias, and passionate love.
Divine Secrets and Human Imaginations features in the following genres: Old Testaments, Ancient Egyptian religion and mythology, Ancient Greek religion and mythology, Roman religion and mythology, Theology, Literary studies: ancient, classical and medieval, Ancient history, Archaeology by period / region, Religion: general, Judaism
Divine Secrets and Human Imaginations is available in Hardback
Divine Secrets and Human Imaginations was written by Angelika Berlejung and published by Mohr Siebeck
Divine Secrets and Human Imaginations has 690 pages
Yes it is part of Orientalische Religionen in Der Antike series
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