Religions Of Second Millennium Anatolia

Author : Piotr Taracha
Publisher : Otto Harrassowitz Verlag
Page : 252 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : Gods, Anatolian
ISBN : 3447058854

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Religions of Second Millennium Anatolia by Piotr Taracha Pdf

This book examines Hittite religion from a historical point of view, stressing two basically different stages in its development. The Old Hittite pantheon of the capital Hattu'a maintains the indigenous religious tradition of the Hattians without any trace of Mesopotamian, Hurrian or Syrian influence, although Hittite and Luwian deities were worshiped in the family and house cults. The Hittite religion of the Empire period has been examined from a new viewpoint. At the time there were two offi cial pantheons in the state and the dynastic cult respectively. The former is an amalgam of Hattian, Hittite, Luwian, Hurrian, Syrian and Mesopotamian deities organized on a geographical principle, whereas the latter is purely Hurrian, refl ecting the religious beliefs of the new royal family of Kizzuwatnan origin that also infl uenced local pantheons of central and northern Anatolia. Through the Hurrians, Mesopotamian and Syrian cults were adopted. Simultaneously, many aspects of the Luwian religious tradition were absorbed into both the state and local cults.

Author : Maurits N Van Loon
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 106 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2023-08-14
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9789004666986

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Anatolia in the Second Millennium B.C by Maurits N Van Loon Pdf

Author : Maurits Nanning Van Loon
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 112 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 1985
Category : History
ISBN : 9004071059

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Anatolia in the Second Millennium B.C. by Maurits Nanning Van Loon Pdf

Author : Manfred Hutter,Sylvia Hutter-Braunsar
Publisher : Ugarit-Verlag
Page : 212 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2019-10-01
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9783868353150

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Economy of Religions in Anatolia and Northern Syria by Manfred Hutter,Sylvia Hutter-Braunsar Pdf

"Religions" are always costly - one has to give offerings (with material value) to the gods, one has to provide the salary for religious specialists who offer their service for their clients, one has to arrange festivals and liturgies - and of course, one has to provide the material means for building temples or shrines. But these costs also repay - as the gods give health or well-being as reward for the offerings. Even if one can never be absolutely certain about such a reward, one at least might earn social reputation because of one's (financial) involvement in religion. But temples are also economic centres - "employing" (often in close relation to the palace) people as workers, craftsmen or "intellectuals" in different positions whose "costs of living" are supplied by the temple. Individual religious specialists receive payment for their service to cover their own costs of living. Although this might sound "modern", religion and economy were intertwined with each other in ancient society also. For this reason, the papers of this conference volume analyse and discuss how the cults, rituals and institutions in Anatolia in the 2nd and 1st millennium contribute to the economic process in those areas.

Author : Maurits Nanning van Loon
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 114 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2023-07-03
Category : Art
ISBN : 9789004666993

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Anatolia in the Earlier First Millennium B.C by Maurits Nanning van Loon Pdf

The author presents and comments on the divine images and other focuses of worship that have come down to us from Neo- Hittites, Uratians, Phrygians, Lydians and Lycians. Despite the diversity of Iron Age Anatolia, certain threads, such as the worship of a motherly nature goddess, can be followed from one area and period to the next.

Author : Alice Mouton,Ian Rutherford,Ilya Yakubovich
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 612 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2013-06-03
Category : History
ISBN : 9789004253414

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Luwian Identities by Alice Mouton,Ian Rutherford,Ilya Yakubovich Pdf

The Luwians inhabited Anatolia and Syria in late second through early first millennium BC. They are mainly known through their Indo-European language, preserved on cuneiform tablets and hieroglyphic stelae. However, where the Luwians lived or came from, how they coexisted with their Hittite and Greek neighbors, and the peculiarities of their religion and material culture, are all debatable matters. A conference convened in Reading in June 2011 in order to discuss the current state of the debate, summarize points of disagreement, and outline ways of addressing them in future research. The papers presented at this conference were collected in the present volume, whose goal is to bring into being a new interdisciplinary field, Luwian Studies. "To conclude, the editors of this volume on Luwian identities and the authors of the individual papers are to be congratulatedwith a successful sequel to TheLuwians of 2003 edited by Melchert and with yet another substantial brick in the foundation of the incipient discipline of Luwian studies." Fred C. Woudhuizen

Author : Maurits Nanning van Loon
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 124 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 1991
Category : Art and religion
ISBN : UVA:X001862213

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Anatolia in the Earlier First Millennium B.C. by Maurits Nanning van Loon Pdf

Author : Michael B. Hundley
Publisher : Society of Biblical Lit
Page : 453 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2013-11-10
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9781589839199

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Gods in Dwellings by Michael B. Hundley Pdf

In this book devoted exclusively to temples and perceptions of the divine presences that inhabit them, Michael B. Hundley focuses on the official religions of the ancient Near East and explores the interface between the human and the divine within temple environs. Hundley identifies common ancient Near Eastern temple systems and examines issues that include what temple structures communicate, how temples were understood to function, temple ideology, the installation of divine presence in a temple, the connection between presence and physical representation, and human service to the deity. Drawing on architectural and spatial theory, ritual theory, theories of language, art history, archaeology, sociocultural anthropology, and comparative studies, Hundley offers a single interpretive lens through which to view temple worship. Features: A close examination of temples in Egypt, Mesopotamia, Hittite Anatolia, and Syria-Palestine An interdisciplinary treatment of architecture, language, ritual, and art A dual focus on how a deity's divine presence connects to space and art and how human service to the deity maintains the deity's active presence

Author : Iulian Moga
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 761 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2019
Category : Inscriptions, Ancient
ISBN : 9042937297

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Religious Excitement in Ancient Anatolia by Iulian Moga Pdf

This book provides a detailed insight into the typology, characteristics and conceptual and iconographic elements of the solar and lunar divinities of Asia Minor. It has a special focus on native or indigenised cults. Furthermore, Anatolian divinities are studied not only in the Roman, but also during the incipient phases of these cults. The main topics include issues of polymorphism, polyonymy and the specific cultural adaptations of the Anatolian deities, the world of the gods, that of mortals and the relations between dedicators and divinities. The first part studies the origin of the name and of the divinity, an attempt to determine the area of dessemination, epithets, attributes, identifications with other gods, myths and the associated divinities, as well as symbolism and iconographical elements. The second part features the economic life of the temples, the organisation of the sacred space, the nature of the priesthood and the categories of dedicators, association patterns, age and kinship, and the alterations that occurred during this period in the perception of the divine world both in the Anatolian area and throughout the Roman empire. In the last part of the volume the reader can find useful information regarding the typology of inscriptions used by the author and the means of communication between the divine world and the terrestrial one.

Author : Mikasa no Miya Takahito
Publisher : Otto Harrassowitz Verlag
Page : 98 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 1988
Category : Civilization, Assyro-Babylonian
ISBN : 3447027819

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Essays on Anatolian Studies in the Second Millennium B.C. by Mikasa no Miya Takahito Pdf

Author : Ian Rutherford
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2020-09-23
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780192599957

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Hittite Texts and Greek Religion by Ian Rutherford Pdf

Our knowledge of ancient Greece has been transformed in the last century by an increased understanding of the cultures of the Ancient Near East. This is particularly true of ancient religion. This book looks at the relationship between the religious systems of Ancient Greece and the Hittites, who controlled Turkey in the Late Bronze Age (1400-1200 BC). The cuneiform texts preserved in the Hittite archives provide a particularly rich source for religious practice, detailing festivals, purification rituals, oracle-consultations, prayers, and myths of the Hittite state, as well as documenting the religious practice of neighbouring Anatolian states in which the Hittites took an interest. Hittite religion is thus more comprehensively documented than any other ancient religious tradition in the Near East, even Egypt. The Hittites are also known to have been in contact with Mycenaean Greece, known to them as Ahhiyawa. The book first sets out the evidence and provides a methodological paradigm for using comparative data. It then explores cases where there may have been contact or influence, such as in the case of scapegoat rituals or the Kumarbi-Cycle. Finally, it considers key aspects of religious practices shared by both systems, such as the pantheon, rituals of war, festivals, and animal sacrifice. The aim of such a comparison is to discover clues that may further our understanding of the deep history of religious practices and, when used in conjunction with historical data, illuminate the differences between cultures and reveal what is distinctive about each of them.

Author : John Arthur Smith
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 194 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2020-11-09
Category : Music
ISBN : 9781000210309

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Music in Religious Cults of the Ancient Near East by John Arthur Smith Pdf

Music in Religious Cults of the Ancient Near East presents the first extended discussion of the relationship between music and cultic worship in ancient western Asia. The book covers ancient Israel and Judah, the Levant, Anatolia, Mesopotamia, Elam, and ancient Egypt, focusing on the period from approximately 3000 BCE to around 586 BCE. This wide-ranging book brings together insights from ancient archaeological, iconographic, written, and musical sources, as well as from modern scholarship. Through careful analysis, comparison, and evaluation of those sources, the author builds a picture of a world where religious culture was predominant and where music was intrinsic to common cultic activity.

Author : Nicola Laneri,Sharon R. Steadman
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 527 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2023-06-29
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781350280830

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The Bloomsbury Handbook of Material Religion in the Ancient Near East and Egypt by Nicola Laneri,Sharon R. Steadman Pdf

With contributions spanning from the Neolithic Age to the Iron Age, this book offers important insights into the religions and ritual practices in ancient Egyptian and Near Eastern communities through the lenses of their material remains. The book begins with a theoretical introduction to the concept of material religion and features editor introductions to each of its six parts, which tackle the following themes: the human body; religious architecture; the written word; sacred images; the spirituality of animals; and the sacred role of the landscape. Illustrated with over 100 images, chapters provide insight into every element of religion and materiality, from the largest building to the smallest amulet. This is a benchmark work for further studies on material religion in the ancient Near East and Egypt.

Author : Spencer L. Allen
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 478 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2015-03-05
Category : History
ISBN : 9781501500220

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The Splintered Divine by Spencer L. Allen Pdf

This book investigates the issue of the singularity versus the multiplicity of ancient Near Eastern deities who are known by a common first name but differentiated by their last names, or geographic epithets. It focuses primarily on the Ištar divine names in Mesopotamia, Baal names in the Levant, and Yahweh names in Israel, and it is structured around four key questions: How did the ancients define what it meant to be a god - or more pragmatically, what kind of treatment did a personality or object need to receive in order to be considered a god by the ancients? Upon what bases and according to which texts do modern scholars determine when a personality or object is a god in an ancient culture? In what ways are deities with both first and last names treated the same and differently from deities with only first names? Under what circumstances are deities with common first names and different last names recognizable as distinct independent deities, and under what circumstances are they merely local manifestations of an overarching deity? The conclusions drawn about the singularity of local manifestations versus the multiplicity of independent deities are specific to each individual first name examined in accordance with the data and texts available for each divine first name.

Author : Sandra Blakely,Billie Jean Collins
Publisher : Lockwood Press
Page : 597 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2019-12-15
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781948488174

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Religious Convergence in the Ancient Mediterranean by Sandra Blakely,Billie Jean Collins Pdf

This volume brings together scholars in religion, archaeology, philology, and history to explore case studies and theoretical models of converging religions. The twenty-four essays offered in this volume, which derive from Hittite, Cilician, Lydian, Phoenician, Greek, and Roman cultural settings, focus on encounters at the boundaries of cultures, landscapes, chronologies, social class and status, the imaginary, and the materially operative. Broad patterns ultimately emerge that reach across these boundaries, and suggest the state of the question on the study of convergence, and the potential fruitfulness for comparative and interdisciplinary studies as models continue to evolve.