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What's in a Divine Name? Religious Systems and Human Agency in the Ancient Mediterranean

Av: Medverkande: Materialtyp: ArtikelUtgivningsinformation: Berlin/Boston De Gruyter De Gruyter [Imprint] 2024Beskrivning: 1 electronic resource (876 p.)Innehållstyp:
  • text
Medietyp:
  • computer
Bärartyp:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9783111326276
  • 9783111326511
  • 9783111327563
Ämnen: Onlineresurser: Sammanfattning: Divine Names are a key component in the communication between humans and gods in Antiquity. The book collects 36 essays pertaining to many different contexts – Egypt, Anatolia, Levant, Mesopotamia, Greece, Rome – which address the multiple functions and wide scope of divine onomastics. In a diachronic and comparative perspective, divine names shed light on how polytheisms and monotheisms work as complex systems embedded in an historical framework.
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Divine Names are a key component in the communication between humans and gods in Antiquity. The book collects 36 essays pertaining to many different contexts – Egypt, Anatolia, Levant, Mesopotamia, Greece, Rome – which address the multiple functions and wide scope of divine onomastics. In a diachronic and comparative perspective, divine names shed light on how polytheisms and monotheisms work as complex systems embedded in an historical framework.

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