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001 2014409483
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008 140516s2013 sz ab b 000 0 eng
010 $a 2014409483
020 $a9783727817380 (Academic Press Fribourg : hd.bd.)
020 $a9783525543825 (Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht : hd.bd.)
040 $aDLC$beng$cDLC$erda
042 $apcc
043 $aaw-----
050 00 $aBL1625.G6$bA84 2013
100 1 $aAsher-Greve, Julia M.
245 10 $aGoddesses in context :$bon divine powers, roles, relationships and gender in Mesopotamian textual and visual sources /$cJulia M. Asher-Greve, Joan Goodnick Westenholz.
264 1 $aFribourg :$bAcademic Press Fribourg ;$aGöttingen :$bVandenhoeck & Ruprecht,$c[2013]
300 $axii, 454 pages :$billustrations, map ;$c24 cm.
336 $atext$2rdacontent
337 $aunmediated$2rdamedia
338 $avolume$2rdacarrier
490 0 $aOrbis biblicus et orientalis,$x1015-1850 ;$v259
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references and indexes.
505 00 $gIntroduction /$rJulia M. Asher-Greve and Joan Goodnick Westenholz --$tMap of Mesopotamia --$tChronological table --$tGender theory and issues.$tOn sexual differences and gender categories ;$tChanging gender, function, domain, rank/status of deities ;$tThe discourse on the marginalization of goddesses /$rJulia M. Asher-Greve --$tPlethora of female deities.$tThe processes: syncretism, fusion, fission, and mutation ;$tThe first stage: profusion ;$tThe second stage: recession ;$tThe third stage : homogeneity and simplification ;$tGeneral trends /$rJoan Goodnick Westenholz --$tFacets of change.$tThe case of Ninḫursaĝa ;$tMythological messages /$rJulia M. Asher-Greve --$tImages.$tImage and religion ;$tVisualizing deities ;$tSurvey through time, space and place ;$tStatues /$rJulia M. Asher-Greve --$tEpilogue /$rJulia M. Asher-Greve and Joan Goodnick Westenholz.
520 8 $aThis book 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) resulted in transformation and homogenization of goddesses' roles and functions. The processes of syncretism (a useful heuristic tool for studying the evolution of religions and the attendant political and social changes) and gender switch were facilitated by the fluidity of personality due to multiple or similar divine roles and functions.
650 0 $aAssyro-Babylonian religion.
650 0 $aSumerians$xReligion.
650 0 $aAkkadians$xReligion.
650 0 $aGoddesses.
650 0 $aGoddesses in art.