Rethinking Frazer’s Dying Gods: New Perspectives on the Death and Resurrection Pattern in Ancient Mediterranean Myths
In this article, I address the ‘old’ question of the ‘dying god’. James G. Frazer’s famous and neglected category is currently considered wrong and outdated and, therefore, not even studied anymore.Through the presentation of the critical positions of Jonathan Z. Smith, I discuss the cases of Dionys...
| Published in: | Annali di scienze religiose |
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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Brepols
2022
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Annali di scienze religiose
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| Summary: | In this article, I address the ‘old’ question of the ‘dying god’. James G. Frazer’s famous and neglected category is currently considered wrong and outdated and, therefore, not even studied anymore.Through the presentation of the critical positions of Jonathan Z. Smith, I discuss the cases of Dionysus, Baal and Inanna/Ishtar. Although they have received little attention (as studies which depart from the dominant critical current generally have), they prove that Frazer’s intuition is not entirely wrong and that there is still much material to explore.In questo articolo affronto la ‘vecchia’ questione del ‘dying god’, il dio morente e risorgente. La famosa e bistrattata categoria di James G. Frazer è attualmente considerata sbagliata e superata e, quindi, neanche più studiata.Attraverso la presentazione delle posizioni critiche di Jonathan Z. Smith, discuto i casi di Dioniso, Baal e Inanna/Ishtar, che, sebbene abbiano ricevuto poca attenzione (come in genere gli studi che si discostano dalla corrente critica dominante), provano che l’intuizione di Frazer non è del tutto errata e che c’è ancora molto materiale da esplorare.. |
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| ISSN: | 2294-8775 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Annali di scienze religiose
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1484/J.ASR.5.131834 |