Women and Religion in the Ancient Near East and Asia /

Women and Religion in the Ancient Near East and Asia / / ed. by Nicole Maria Brisch, Fumi Karahashi.

The recent years have seen an upswing in studies of women in the ancient Near East and related areas. This volume, which is the result of a Danish-Japanese collaboration, seeks to highlight women as actors within the sphere of the religious. In ancient Mesopotamia and other ancient civilizations, re...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter DG Plus DeG Package 2023 Part 1
MitwirkendeR:
Arbøll, Troels P.,
Brisch, Nicole,
Garcia-Ventura, Agnès,
Haijing, Huang,
Helle, Sophus,
Karahashi, Fumi,
Kawai, Nozomu,
Koch, Ulla,
López-Ruiz, Carolina,
Matsumoto, Yuko,
Michalowski, Piotr,
Sano, Katsuji,
Taggar-Cohen, Ada,
Watai, Yoko,
HerausgeberIn:
Brisch, Nicole Maria,
Karahashi, Fumi,
Place / Publishing House:Berlin ;, Boston : : De Gruyter, , [2023]
©2023
Year of Publication:2023
Language:English
Series:Studies in Ancient Near Eastern Records (SANER) , 30
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Physical Description:1 online resource (300 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Foreword and Acknowledgements
  • Contents
  • Introduction
  • Women’s History and Gender History in Japan
  • Part I: Businesswomen, Empresses, and Royal Women
  • Socio-Economic Aspects and Agency of Female Maš-da-ri-a Contributors in Presargonic Lagash
  • The Role of Women in Assyrian Foreign Policy
  • Women Involved in Daily Management in Achaemenid Babylonia: The Cases of Rē’indu and Andiya
  • Wu Zetian’s Buddhist Policy: A New Perspective
  • Part II: Priestesses
  • The Office and Responsibilities of the En Priestess of Nanna: Evidence from Votive Inscriptions and Documentary Texts
  • High Priestesses in Old Babylonian Nippur: The NIN and NIN-dingir Priestesses of Ninurta
  • Hittite Royal Ideology and the Uniqueness of the Priestess Titled NIN.DINGIR
  • The Roles of Women in the Practice of Ancient Mesopotamian Divination
  • Part III: Goddesses
  • Enheduana’s Invocations: Form and Force
  • On Language, Gender, Sex, and Style in the Sumerian Language
  • Venomous Scorpions and Venerable Women: The Relationship Between Scorpions, the Goddess Išḫara, and Queens in the Neo-Assyrian Period
  • The Networks of Ashtart-Aphrodite and the Archaic Mediterranean Koiné
  • The Lioness Goddess Statuary from the Rock-Cut Chambers at Northwest Saqqara and Their Cult in Middle Kingdom Egypt
  • Index

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