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The materiality of divine agency /
This volume explores two topics of contemporary critical interest, agency and materiality, in the context of their intersection with the divine. Specific case studies, emphasizing the ancient Near East but including treatments also of the European Middle Ages and ancient Greece, draw on a broad rang...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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De Gruyter,
2015.
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| Colección: | Studies in ancient Near Eastern records ;
Volume 8. |
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Part I : The Material Divine : Anthropomorphism, Animation, and Agency in Cross Cultural Perspective. Between Cognition and Culture : Theorizing the Materiality of Divine Agency in Cross-Cultural Perspective / Beate Pongratz-Leisten and Karen Sonik
- The Animation and Agency of Holy Food : Bread and Wine as Material Divine in the European Middle Ages / Caroline Walker Bynum. Part II : Divine Materials, Materiality, and Materialization in Mesopotamia. "What Goes In Is What Comes Out"- But What Was Already There? Divine Materials and Materiality in Ancient Mesopotamia / Kim Benzel
- Imperial Allegories : Divine Agency and Monstrous Bodies in Mesopotamia's Body Description Texts / Beate Pongratz-Leisten
- Divine (Re- )Presentation : Authoritative Images and a Pictorial Stream of Tradition in Mesopotamia / Karen Sonik. Part III : A Feast for the Senses : Visual and Auditory Engagement with the Divine and Divine Agents in the Ancient Near East. Seeing and Socializing with Dagan at Emar's zukru Festival / Daniel E. Fleming
- The Voice of Mighty Copper in a Mesopotamian Exorcistic Ritual / Anne-Caroline Rendu Loisel.