The Materiality of Divine Agency / / ed. by Beate Pongratz-Leisten, Karen Sonik.
Two topics of current critical interest, agency and materiality, are here explored in the context of their intersection with the divine. Specific case studies, emphasizing the ancient Near East but including treatments also of the European Middle Ages and ancient Greece, elucidate the nature and imp...
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| Superior document: | Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter DG Plus DeG Package 2015 Part 1 |
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| Place / Publishing House: | Berlin ;, Boston : : De Gruyter, , [2015] ©2015 |
| Year of Publication: | 2015 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Studies in Ancient Near Eastern Records (SANER) ,
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (239 p.) |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Acknowledgments
- Preface
- Contents
- Abbreviations
- List of Illustrations
- Contributors
- Part I: The Material Divine: Anthropomorphism, Animation, and Agency in Cross-Cultural Perspective
- Between Cognition and Culture: Theorizing the Materiality of Divine Agency in Cross- Cultural Perspective
- The Animation and Agency of Holy Food: Bread and Wine as Material Divine in the European Middle Ages
- Part II: Divine Materials, Materiality, and Materialization in Mesopotamia
- “What Goes In Is What Comes Out” – But What Was Already There? Divine Materials and Materiality in Ancient Mesopotamia
- Imperial Allegories: Divine Agency and Monstrous Bodies in Mesopotamia’s Body Description Texts
- Divine (Re-)Presentation: Authoritative Images and a Pictorial Stream of Tradition in Mesopotamia
- Part III: A Feast for the Senses: Visual and Auditory Engagement with the Divine and Divine Agents in the Ancient Near East
- Seeing and Socializing with Dagan at Emar’s zukru Festival
- The Voice of Mighty Copper in a
- Index