Hittite Funerary Ritual

Author : Alexei Kassian
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1036 pages
Book Rating : 4.83/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Hittite Funerary Ritual written by Alexei Kassian and published by . This book was released on 2002 with total page 1036 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The scholars of the Moscow University present a new edition of the Hittite funerary texts, which are most important for the study of the funerary fourteen-day ritual practiced in the Hittite empire during the second half of the 2nd millenium BCE. The edition comprises transliteration, an English and a Russian translation, and a philological commentary.

Author : Sarah Iles Johnston
Publisher : Harvard University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780674015173
Total Pages : 750 pages
Book Rating : 4.77/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Religions of the Ancient World written by Sarah Iles Johnston and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2004-11-30 with total page 750 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This groundbreaking, first basic reference work on ancient religious beliefs collects and organizes available information on ten ancient cultures and traditions, including Greece, Rome, and Mesopotamia, and offers an expansive, comparative perspective on each one.

Author : Albrecht Goetze
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
ISBN 13 : 1608990486
Total Pages : 154 pages
Book Rating : 4.81/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Hittite Ritual of Tunnawi written by Albrecht Goetze and published by Wipf and Stock Publishers. This book was released on 2009-09-01 with total page 154 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Mary R. Bachvarova
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 0521509793
Total Pages : 691 pages
Book Rating : 4.94/5 ( download)

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Download or read book From Hittite to Homer written by Mary R. Bachvarova and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2016-03-10 with total page 691 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book takes a bold new approach to the prehistory of Homeric epic, arguing for a fresh understanding of how Near Eastern influence worked.

Author : Hans Gustav Güterbock
Publisher : Eisenbrauns
ISBN 13 : 1575060531
Total Pages : 220 pages
Book Rating : 4.38/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Recent Developments in Hittite Archaeology and History written by Hans Gustav Güterbock and published by Eisenbrauns. This book was released on 2002-01-01 with total page 220 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This collection of scholarly essays centered in Hittitology pays tribute to the life and distinguished career of Hans Güterbock. Stemming from research papers presented at the 1997 meeting of the American Oriental Society, this volume reexamines the philological, historical, and archaeological evidence from the Hittite period. Reporting on new archaeological excavations, philological study, and historical research, these scholars inform and sharpen our knowledge of ancient Anatolia.

Author : John Tracy Thames, Jr.
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004429115
Total Pages : 361 pages
Book Rating : 4.16/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Politics of Ritual Change written by John Tracy Thames, Jr. and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2020-07-27 with total page 361 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In The Politics of Ritual Change, John Thames explores the intersection of ritual and politics in the zukru festival texts from Emar and suggests a new understanding of the Hittite Empire’s relationship to northern Syria in the 13th century BCE.

Author : Nicola Laneri
Publisher : Institute for the Study of Ancient Cultures
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 340 pages
Book Rating : 4.97/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Performing Death written by Nicola Laneri and published by Institute for the Study of Ancient Cultures. This book was released on 2007 with total page 340 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume represents a collection of contributions presented by the authors during the Second Annual University of Chicago Oriental Institute Seminar "Performing Death: Social Analyses of Funerary Traditions in the Ancient Mediterranean," held at the Oriental Institute, February 17-18, 2006. The principal aim of the two-day seminar was to interpret the social relevance resulting from the enactment of funerary rituals within the broad-reaching Mediterranean basin from prehistoric periods to the Roman Age. Efforts were concentrated on creating a panel composed of scholars with diverse backgrounds - anthropologists, historians, archaeologists, art historians, and philologists - and the knowledge and expertise to enrich the discussion through the presentation of case-studies linked to both textual and archaeological evidence from the Mediterranean region. Fundamental to the successful realisation of this research process was the active dialogue between scholars of different backgrounds. These communicative exchanges provided the opportunity to integrate different approaches and interpretations concerning the role played by the performance of ancient funerary rituals within a given society and, as a result, helped in defining a coherent outcome towards the interpretation of ancient communities' behaviours.

Author : Christopher B. Hays
Publisher : Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing
ISBN 13 : 0802873111
Total Pages : 466 pages
Book Rating : 4.18/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Covenant with Death written by Christopher B. Hays and published by Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing. This book was released on 2015 with total page 466 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Death is one of the major themes in First Isaiah, although it has not generally been recognized as such. In this study Christopher Hays offers fresh interpretations of more than a dozen passages in Isaiah 538 in light of ancient beliefs about death. Hays first summarizes what is known about death in the ancient Near East during the Second Iron Age, covering beliefs and practicesin Mesopotamia, Egypt, Syria-Palestine, and Judah/Israel. He then shows how select passages in the first part of Isaiah employ the rhetorical imagery of death that was part of their cultural context, and he also identifies ways in which those texts break new creative ground. This books holistic approach to questions that have attracted much scholarly attention in recent decades produces new insights not only for the interpretation of specific biblical passages but also for the formation of the book of Isaiah and for the history of ancient Near Eastern religions.

Author : Christopher B. Hays
Publisher : Mohr Siebeck
ISBN 13 : 9783161507854
Total Pages : 476 pages
Book Rating : 4.51/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Death in the Iron Age II and in First Isaiah written by Christopher B. Hays and published by Mohr Siebeck. This book was released on 2011 with total page 476 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Death is one of the major themes of 'First Isaiah, ' although it has not generally been recognized as such. Images of death are repeatedly used by the prophet and his earliest tradents.The book begins by concisely summarizing what is known about death in the Ancient Near East during the Iron Age II, covering beliefs and practices in Mesopotamia, Egypt, Syria-Palestine, and Judah/Israel. Incorporating both textual and archeological data, Christopher B. Hays surveys and analyzes existing scholarly literature on these topics from multiple fields.Focusing on the text's meaning for its producers and its initial audiences, he describes the ways in which the 'rhetoric of death' functioned in its historical context and offers fresh interpretations of more than a dozen passages in Isa 5-38. He shows how they employ the imagery of death that was part of their cultural contexts, and also identifies ways in which they break new creative ground.This holistic approach to questions that have attracted much scholarly attention in recent decades produces new insights not only for the interpretation of specific biblical passages, but also for the formation of the book of Isaiah and for the history of ancient Near Eastern religions

Author : Elizabeth P. Baughan
Publisher : University of Wisconsin Pres
ISBN 13 : 0299291839
Total Pages : 518 pages
Book Rating : 4.39/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Couched in Death written by Elizabeth P. Baughan and published by University of Wisconsin Pres. This book was released on 2013-12-06 with total page 518 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Couched in Death, Elizabeth P. Baughan offers the first comprehensive look at the earliest funeral couches in the ancient Mediterranean world. These sixth- and fifth-century BCE klinai from Asia Minor were inspired by specialty luxury furnishings developed in Archaic Greece for reclining at elite symposia. It was in Anatolia, however—in the dynastic cultures of Lydia and Phrygia and their neighbors—that klinai first gained prominence not as banquet furniture but as burial receptacles. For tombs, wooden couches were replaced by more permanent media cut from bedrock, carved from marble or limestone, or even cast in bronze. The rich archaeological findings of funerary klinai throughout Asia Minor raise intriguing questions about the social and symbolic meanings of this burial furniture. Why did Anatolian elites want to bury their dead on replicas of Greek furniture? Do the klinai found in Anatolian tombs represent Persian influence after the conquest of Anatolia, as previous scholarship has suggested? Bringing a diverse body of understudied and unpublished material together for the first time, Baughan investigates the origins and cultural significance of kline-burial and charts the stylistic development and distribution of funerary klinai throughout Anatolia. She contends that funeral couch burials and banqueter representations in funerary art helped construct hybridized Anatolian-Persian identities in Achaemenid Anatolia, and she reassesses the origins of the custom of the reclining banquet itself, a defining feature of ancient Mediterranean civilizations. Baughan explores the relationships of Anatolian funeral couches with similar traditions in Etruria and Macedonia as well as their "afterlife" in the modern era, and her study also includes a comprehensive survey of evidence for ancient klinai in general, based on analysis of more than three hundred klinai representations on Greek vases as well as archaeological and textual sources.