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The treasures of darkness : a history of Mesopotamian religion /

" ... No one can plausibly deny that the religious development of the peoples of Canaan (and indeed of all the ancient world around the eastern Mediterranean to the Indus river) were affected by the cultural and religious developments in Mesopotamia, the centre of the region, and a fertile regi...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Jacobsen, Thorkild, 1904-1993 (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: New Haven : Yale University Press, 1976.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Ancient Mesopotamian religion : the terms
  • Fourth millennium metaphors : the gods as providers--dying gods of fertility
  • Third millennium metaphors : the gods as rulers--the cosmos a polity
  • Third millennium metaphors : the gods as rulers--individual divine figures
  • Second millennium metaphors : the gods as parents--rise of personal religion
  • Second millennium metaphors : world origins and world order--the creation epic
  • Second millennium metaphors : "and death the journey's end"--the Gilgamesh epic.