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Art and Immortality in the Ancient Near East /
Discussions of apocalyptic thought and its sources in the ancient Near East, particularly Mesopotamia, have a long scholarly history, with a renewed interest and focus in the recent decades. Outside Assyriological scholarship as well, studies of the apocalyptic give significant credit to the ancient...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Cambridge, UK ; New York, NY :
Cambridge University Press,
2018.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
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- Cover; Half-title; Title page; Copyright information; Epigraph; Table of contents; List of Illustrastions; Acknowledgments; List of abbreviations; Introduction; Toward a Metaphysics of the Art of the Ancient Near East; The Corpus of Images; Questions of Text and Image; Tammuz and Gilgamesh; A Supra-Textual Language; Conceptual Bases; Egypt and Mesopotamia; Conceptions of Sacral Time and Eschatology; Defining Apocalyptic; Out of Time, Out of History; Artistic Production and "Regal Art"; The Royal Destiny; Art and the Apocalyptic; One The "Investiture" Painting from Mari.
- Archaeological Discovery and Architectural SettingThe Mari Painting in the Context of the Art of the Ancient Near East; The Affinity between Mari and Assyria; Conceptions of Renewal in the Mari Painting; The Flood Myth in the Old Babylonian Period; Previous Interpretations; Alternative Views; A Critical Position; Two The Iconographic Analysis of the Mari Painting; The Ring and Rod: Beyond Legitimacy; The Builder King; Gradation and Framing; The Flowing Vase: Beyond Fertility; Aquatic Endlessness; Ishtar and Ea; An Aquatic Doorway; The Central Panel: Beyond a Rectangular Frame; Heaven in Earth.
- The Mythical Quadrupeds: Beyond the ApotropaicThe Blue Bird in Flight: The "Phoenix"?; Ascent to Heaven; Coloristic Symbolism; Stairway to Heaven; Three The Flood Myth as Paradigm; A Note on Method; The Ideal Enclosure and the Ideal Garden; The Ideal Temple; Numerological Symbolism; A New Cosmic Order; Flood Vision; Defining Paradeigma; The Mari Painting and the Assyrian "Sacred Tree"; Postscript on Shamanic Lore in the Art of Ancient Mesopotamia; Four The Semantics of the Frame of Running Spirals; Running Spirals as Symbolic Form; The Ouroboric Serpent.
- Primordial Chaos as Source of Periodic Destruction and RenewalSerpents, Streams, and Endless Time; Neo-Sumerian Roots; An Anatolian Ouroboros.?; Five Implications of Sacral Time and Eschatology; Temporal Cyclicality in Ancient Mesopotamia; An Apocalyptic Perspective; Defying Cyclicality through Ascent; The Hittite Double Winged Disk; Hittite Visual Formulations of Ascent; Mountain and Water; To Die is to Become a God; Egyptian Roots; Conceptions of Temporal and Astral Eternity; Nothing Babylonian; Conceptions of Apocalyptic Eschatology; Closure to the Mari Painting.
- Postscript: Why the Apocalyptic Would Have Been EsotericSix The "Royal Destiny":; From Ashurnasirpal to Ashurbanipal; Description and Historical Framework; Previous Interpretations and the Present Approach; Paradisiac Implications; The "Garden Scene" and its Intercultural Connections; "The Charms of Tyranny"; The Assyrian Queen Wearing the Mural Crown; The Celestial City; The Garden as a Transitional Extreme; A Vergilian Model; Ishtar and "Holy War"; Closure to the "Garden Scene"; Epilogue; Notes; Introduction; 1 The "Investiture" Painting From Mari.