What’s in a Divine Name?: Religious Systems and Human Agency in the Ancient Mediterranean
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 diachron...
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| Format: | Electronic Book |
| Language: | English |
| Check availability: | HBZ Gateway |
| WorldCat: | WorldCat |
| Interlibrary Loan: | Interlibrary Loan for the Fachinformationsdienste (Specialized Information Services in Germany) |
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Berlin/Boston
De Gruyter
2024
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| In: | Year: 2024 |
| Further subjects: | B
c 500 BCE to c 1BCE
B Gods B Onomastics B Ancient History B Ancient religions and Mythologies |
| Online Access: |
Volltext (kostenfrei) Volltext (kostenfrei) |
| Rights Information: | CC BY 4.0 |
| Summary: | 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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| Physical Description: | 1 Online-Ressource (876 p.) |
| ISBN: | 978-3-11-132651-1 978-3-11-132627-6 978-3-11-132756-3 |
| Access: | Open Access |
