Publication: The triumph of the symbol: Pictorial representation of deities in Mesopotamia and the biblical image ban
The triumph of the symbol: Pictorial representation of deities in Mesopotamia and the biblical image ban
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Ornan, T. (2005). The triumph of the symbol: Pictorial representation of deities in Mesopotamia and the biblical image ban (Vol. 213). Academic Press / Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht.
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This book analyzes the history of Mesopotamian imagery from the mid-second to mid-first millennium BCE. It demonstrates that in spite of rich textual evidence, which grants the Mesopotamian gods and goddesses an anthropomorphic form, there was a clear abstention in various media from visualizing the gods in such a form. True, divine human-shaped cultic images existed in Mesopotamian temples. But as a rule, non-anthropomorphic visual agents such as inanimate objects, animals or fantastic hybrids replaced these figures when they were po
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Ornan, T. (2005). The triumph of the symbol: Pictorial representation of deities in Mesopotamia and the biblical image ban (Vol. 213). Academic Press / Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht.
