Sacred Marriages : : The Divine-Human Sexual Metaphor from Sumer to Early Christianity /

Sacred Marriages : : The Divine-Human Sexual Metaphor from Sumer to Early Christianity / / ed. by Risto Uro, Martti Nissinen.

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The title of this volume, Sacred Marriages, consciously plays with the traditional concept of sacred marriage, but the plural form, "sacred marriages," gives the reader an idea that something more is at stake here than a monomaniacal idea of manifestations deriving from a single prototype....

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Penn State University Press Complete eBook-Package Pre-2014
MitwirkendeR:
Avagianou, Aphrodite A.,
Carr, David M.,
Collins, John J.,
Conway, Colleen M.,
Day, Peggy L.,
Lapinkivi, Pirjo,
Martin, Dale B.,
Merenlahti, Petri,
Nissinen, Martti,
Nyberg, Kristel,
Osiek, Carolyn,
Pongratz-Leisten, Beate,
Rikala, Mia,
Räisänen, Heikki,
Smith, Mark S.,
Syreeni, Kari,
Sælid Gilhus, Ingvild,
Teppo, Saana,
Uro, Risto,
Valantasis, Richard,
Zimmermann, Ruben,
HerausgeberIn:
Nissinen, Martti,
Uro, Risto,
Place / Publishing House:University Park, PA : : Penn State University Press, , [2021]
©2008
Year of Publication:2021
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (560 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Abbreviations
  • Sacred Marriages, or the Divine-Human Sexual Metaphor: Introducing the Project
  • Chapter 1 The Sumerian Sacred Marriage and Its Aftermath in Later Sources
  • Chapter 2 Sacred Marriage and the Transfer of Divine Knowledge: Alliances between the Gods and the King in Ancient Mesopotamia
  • Chapter 3 Sacred Marriage and the Devotees of Istar
  • Chapter 4 Sacred Marriage in the Ugaritic Texts? The Case of KTU/CAT 1.23 (Rituals and Myths of the Goodly Gods)
  • Chapter 5 Sacred Marriage in the New Kingdom of Ancient Egypt: Circumstantial Evidence for a Ritual Interpretation
  • Chapter 6 Hieros Gamos in Ancient Greek Religion: The Human Aspect of a Sacralized Ritual
  • Chapter 7 Song of Songs and Sacred Marriage
  • Chapter 8 Yahweh's Broken Marriages as Metaphoric Vehicle in the Hebrew Bible Prophets
  • Chapter 9 The Love Triangle of Lady Wisdom: Sacred Marriage in Jewish Wisdom Literature?
  • Chapter 10 The Sons of God and the Daughters of Men
  • Chapter 11 The Divine-Human Marriage Matrix and Constructions of Gender and "Bodies" in the Christian Bible
  • Chapter 12 Sacred Prostitution in the Biblical World?
  • Chapter 13 Begotten by the Holy Spirit
  • Chapter 14 From the Bridegroom's Time to the Wedding of the Lamb: Nuptial Imagery in the Canonical Gospels and the Book of Revelation
  • Chapter 15 The Bride of Christ (Ephesians 5:22-33): A Problematic Wedding
  • Chapter 16 Sex and the Single Savior
  • Chapter 17 Divine Desires: Fantasy and Renunciation in the Narrative of Mark's Gospel
  • Chapter 18 Asceticism as a Sacred Marriage: An Essay on Eastern and Western Theories
  • Chapter 19 The Bridal Chamber and Other Mysteries: Ritual System and Ritual Transmission in the Valentinian Movement
  • Chapter 20 Sacred Marriage and Spiritual Knowledge: Relations between Carnality and Salvation in the Apocryphon of John
  • Indexes

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