TY  - BOOK
AU  - Dick,Michael B.
AU  - Lorton,David
AU  - Waghorne,Joanne Punzo
AU  - Walker,Christopher
TI  - Born in Heaven, Made on Earth: The Making of the Cult Image in the Ancient Near East 
SN  - 9781575065120
AV  - BL1060 .B67 1999eb
U1  - 291.2/18 21
PY  - 2021///]
CY  - University Park, PA : 
PB  - Penn State University Press, 
KW  - Idols and images
KW  - Middle East
KW  - Rites and ceremonies
KW  - HISTORY / Ancient / General
KW  - bisacsh
N1  - Frontmatter --; Contents --; Introduction --; Prophetic Parodies of Making the Cult Image --; The Induction of the Cult Image in Ancient Mesopotamia: The Mesopotamian mis pî Ritual --; The Theology of Cult Statues in Ancient Egypt --; The Divine Image in Contemporary South India: The Renaissance of a Once Maligned Tradition --; Conclusions --; Bibliography; restricted access
N2  - Pejoratively referred to as ";idols"; in the Hebrew Bible and in western tradition, the cult image occupied a central place in the cultures of the ancient Near East. In Mesopotamia, a ritual (mis pi) was used to ";give birth"; to the god represented by the cult image. In this volume, three separate essays examine the topic within different ancient Near Eastern cultures, and a fourth provides a modern analogy as counterpoint
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