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Goddesses in Context: On Divine Powers, Roles, Relationships and Gender in Mesopotamian Textual and Visual Sources

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2013
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Asher-Greve, J. M., & Westenholz, J. G. (2013). Goddesses in Context: On Divine Powers, Roles, Relationships and Gender in Mesopotamian Textual and Visual Sources (Vol. 259). Academic Press / Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht.

Abstract

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Abstract

Goddesses in Context examines from different perspectives some of the most challenging themes in Mesopotamian religion such as gender switch of deities and changes of the status, roles and functions of goddesses. The authors incorporate recent scholarship from various disciplines into their analysis of textual and visual sources, representations in diverse media, theological strategies, typologies, and the place of image in religion and cult over a span of three millennia. Different types of syncretism (fusion, fission, mutation) resu

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Creators (Authors)

  • Asher-Greve, Julia M
  • Westenholz, Joan Goodnick

Place of Publication

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Place of Publication
Fribourg / Göttingen

Publisher

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Academic Press / Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht

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Monograph

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English

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2013

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2017-02-16

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Orbis Biblicus et Orientalis

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Volume
259

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Number of pages

Number of pages
460

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978-3-7278-1738-0

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Green

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511 since deposited on 2017-02-16
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Asher-Greve, J. M., & Westenholz, J. G. (2013). Goddesses in Context: On Divine Powers, Roles, Relationships and Gender in Mesopotamian Textual and Visual Sources (Vol. 259). Academic Press / Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht.

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