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The Phoenician Solar Theology : An Investigation into the Phoenician Opinion of the Sun found in Julian's Hymn to King Helios / Joseph Azize.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: Gorgias Near Eastern StudiesPublisher: Piscataway, NJ : Gorgias Press, [2014]Copyright date: ©2014Description: 1 online resource (343 p.)Content type:
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ISBN:
  • 9781463202699
  • 9781463236045
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 299/.26
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  • online - DeGruyter
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Contents:
Frontmatter -- CONTENTS -- ABBREVIATIONS -- FIGURES -- SUMMARY -- INTRODUCTION -- CHAPTER 1. THE QUESTION AND THE METHOD -- CHAPTER 2. JULIAN AND THE “SOLAR PERICOPE” -- CHAPTER 3. THE REMAINING PHOENICIAN PERICOPES -- CHAPTER 4. JULIAN AND HIS SOURCES -- CHAPTER 5. JULIAN AND IAMBLICHOS -- CHAPTER 6. THE PHOENICIANS -- CHAPTER 7. THE SUN GODDESS OF UGARIT -- CHAPTER 8. PHOENICIAN SOLAR RELIGION: THE FUNERARY INSCRIPTIONS -- CHAPTER 9. PHOENICIAN SOLAR RELIGION: MISCELLANEOUS EVIDENCE -- CHAPTER 10. MOCHOS, EUDEMOS, AND PHILO OF BYBLOS -- CHAPTER 11. OTHER LATE EVIDENCE -- CONCLUSION -- BIBLIOGRAPHY -- INDEX
Summary: This book, the first study of its kind, contends that an authentic Phoenician solar theology existed, reaching back to at least the fifth or sixth century BCE. Through Azize’s examination, a portrait of a vibrant Phoenician tradition of spiritual thought emerges: a native tradition not dependent upon Hellenic thought, but related to other Semitic cultures of the ancient Near East, and, of course, to Egypt. In light of this analysis, it can be seen that Phoenician religion possessed a unique organizing power in which the sun, the sun god, life, death, and humanity, were linked in a profound system.

Frontmatter -- CONTENTS -- ABBREVIATIONS -- FIGURES -- SUMMARY -- INTRODUCTION -- CHAPTER 1. THE QUESTION AND THE METHOD -- CHAPTER 2. JULIAN AND THE “SOLAR PERICOPE” -- CHAPTER 3. THE REMAINING PHOENICIAN PERICOPES -- CHAPTER 4. JULIAN AND HIS SOURCES -- CHAPTER 5. JULIAN AND IAMBLICHOS -- CHAPTER 6. THE PHOENICIANS -- CHAPTER 7. THE SUN GODDESS OF UGARIT -- CHAPTER 8. PHOENICIAN SOLAR RELIGION: THE FUNERARY INSCRIPTIONS -- CHAPTER 9. PHOENICIAN SOLAR RELIGION: MISCELLANEOUS EVIDENCE -- CHAPTER 10. MOCHOS, EUDEMOS, AND PHILO OF BYBLOS -- CHAPTER 11. OTHER LATE EVIDENCE -- CONCLUSION -- BIBLIOGRAPHY -- INDEX

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This book, the first study of its kind, contends that an authentic Phoenician solar theology existed, reaching back to at least the fifth or sixth century BCE. Through Azize’s examination, a portrait of a vibrant Phoenician tradition of spiritual thought emerges: a native tradition not dependent upon Hellenic thought, but related to other Semitic cultures of the ancient Near East, and, of course, to Egypt. In light of this analysis, it can be seen that Phoenician religion possessed a unique organizing power in which the sun, the sun god, life, death, and humanity, were linked in a profound system.

Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.

In English.

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