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As above, so below : religion and geography / edited by Gina Konstantopoulos and Shana Zaia.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublisher: University Park, Pennsylvania : Eisenbrauns, [2021]Copyright date: ©2021Description: 1 online resource : illustrations (black and white)Content type:
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ISBN:
  • 9781646021536
  • 1646021533
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: As above, so below.DDC classification:
  • 299/.21 23
LOC classification:
  • BL65.G4 R46 2016eb
Other classification:
  • online - EBSCO
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Contents:
Gods in the margins : religion, kingship, and the fictionalized frontier / Gina Konstantopoulos -- Place and portability : divine emblems in Old Babylonian law / Seth Richardson -- Mari's investiture scene and the visualization of kingship in the Old Babylonian period / Elizabeth Knott -- Divine foundations : religion and Assyrian capital cities / Shana Zaia -- Approaches to the religious topography of the oasis of Taymāʼ, northwest Arabia, during the first millennium BCE : images, text and space / Arnulf Hausleiter and Sebastiano Lora.
Summary: "A collection of essays addressing the nexus of religion and geography in the ancient Near East, presenting several case studies that cover a range of time periods and areas to illuminate the diverse phenomena that occur when religion is viewed through the lenses of space and place"-- Provided by publisher
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Item type Current library Call number URL Status Notes Barcode
eBook eBook Biblioteca "Angelicum" Pont. Univ. S.Tommaso d'Aquino Nuvola online online - EBSCO (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Online access Not for loan (Accesso limitato) Accesso per gli utenti autorizzati / Access for authorized users (ebsco)3035668

"This volume presents studies based on papers that were presented in the context of a workshop of the same name that took place at the Rencontre Assyriologique Internationale meeting in Philadelphia on July 11, 2016"--Editor's introduction

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Gods in the margins : religion, kingship, and the fictionalized frontier / Gina Konstantopoulos -- Place and portability : divine emblems in Old Babylonian law / Seth Richardson -- Mari's investiture scene and the visualization of kingship in the Old Babylonian period / Elizabeth Knott -- Divine foundations : religion and Assyrian capital cities / Shana Zaia -- Approaches to the religious topography of the oasis of Taymāʼ, northwest Arabia, during the first millennium BCE : images, text and space / Arnulf Hausleiter and Sebastiano Lora.

"A collection of essays addressing the nexus of religion and geography in the ancient Near East, presenting several case studies that cover a range of time periods and areas to illuminate the diverse phenomena that occur when religion is viewed through the lenses of space and place"-- Provided by publisher

Print version record.