Author : Julye Bidmead
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 235 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2014-04-21
Category : Religion
ISBN : 1463202652
The Akitu Festival
Julye Bidmead
The Akitu Festival
The Akitu Festival Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle version is available to download in english. Read online anytime anywhere directly from your device. Click on the download button below to get a free pdf file of The Akitu Festival book. This book definitely worth reading, it is an incredibly well-written.
The Babylonian Akitu Festival
Svend A. Pallis
Author : Svend A. Pallis
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 1990-06-01
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0404182038
The Babylonian Akitu Festival by Svend A. Pallis Pdf
The Babylonian Akîtu Festival
Svend Aage Frederik Dichmann Pallis
Author : Svend Aage Frederik Dichmann Pallis
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 538 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 1926
Category : Akîtu
ISBN : STANFORD:36105018829007
The Babylonian Akîtu Festival by Svend Aage Frederik Dichmann Pallis Pdf
The Akit̄u Festival
Julye Bidmead
Author : Julye Bidmead
Publisher : Gorgias Press LLC
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : Akit̄u festival
ISBN : 1931956340
The Akit̄u Festival by Julye Bidmead Pdf
Using tools of social anthropology, this book describes the ancient Babylonian akntu, or New Year festival. It reconstructs the festival and its customs.
Assyrian and Babylonian Chronicles
Albert Kirk Grayson
Author : Albert Kirk Grayson
Publisher : Eisenbrauns
Page : 350 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Foreign Language Study
ISBN : 1575060493
Assyrian and Babylonian Chronicles by Albert Kirk Grayson Pdf
Originally published: Locust Valley, N.Y.: J. J. Augustin, 1975.
The Akītu Festival
Julye Bidmead
Author : Julye Bidmead
Publisher : Gorgias PressLlc
Page : 220 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : History
ISBN : 1593331584
The Akītu Festival by Julye Bidmead Pdf
Religious ritual is embedded with socio-political ideologies. Nowhere is this more apparent than in the ancient Babylonian akitu or New Year festival. The akitu festival is one of the oldest recorded religious festivals in the world, celebrated for several millennia throughout ancient Mesopotamia. Yet, the akitu was more than just a religious ceremony - it acted as a political device employed by the monarchy and/or the central priesthood to ensure the supremacy of the king, the national god, and his capital city. Using tools of social anthropology and ritual analysis, this book presents a detailed reconstruction of the festival events and its attendant rituals to demonstrate how the akitu festival became a propagandistic tool wielded by the monarchy and ruling class to promote state ideology. The akitu festival demonstrates the effectiveness of religion as a political tool.
The Babylonian Akîtu Festival
Svend Aage Pallis
Author : Svend Aage Pallis
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 307 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 1926
Category : Akitu
ISBN : OCLC:1172548606
The Babylonian Akîtu Festival by Svend Aage Pallis Pdf
Religions of the Ancient World
Sarah Iles Johnston
Author : Sarah Iles Johnston
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 750 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2004-11-30
Category : History
ISBN : 0674015177
Religions of the Ancient World by Sarah Iles Johnston Pdf
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.
Ritual
Catherine Bell
Author : Catherine Bell
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 372 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0198027060
Ritual by Catherine Bell Pdf
From handshakes and toasts to chant and genuflection, ritual pervades our social interactions and religious practices. Still, few of us could identify all of our daily and festal ritual behaviors, much less explain them to an outsider. Similarly, because of the variety of activities that qualify as ritual and their many contradictory yet, in many ways, equally legitimate interpretations, ritual seems to elude any systematic historical and comparative scrutiny. In this book, Catherine Bell offers a practical introduction to ritual practice and its study; she surveys the most influential theories of religion and ritual, the major categories of ritual activity, and the key debates that have shaped our understanding of ritualism. Bell refuses to nail down ritual with any one definition or understanding. Instead, her purpose is to reveal how definitions emerge and evolve and to help us become more familiar with the interplay of tradition, exigency, and self-expression that goes into constructing this complex social medium.
Origin and Transformation of the Ancient Israelite Festival Calendar
Jan A. Wagenaar
Author : Jan A. Wagenaar
Publisher : Otto Harrassowitz Verlag
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Calendar, Jewish
ISBN : 344705249X
Origin and Transformation of the Ancient Israelite Festival Calendar by Jan A. Wagenaar Pdf
The book focusses on the origin and transformation of the priestly festival calendar. Since the epoch-making work of Julius Wellhausen at the end of the 19th century the differences between the various ancient Israelite festival calendars have often been explained in terms of a gradual evolution, which shows an increasing historicisation, denaturalisation and ritualisation. The festivals were in Wellhausen's view gradually detached from agricultural conditions and celebrated more and more at fixed points in the year. This study tries to show that the changes in the priestly festival calendar reflect a conscious effort to adapt the ancient Israelite festival calendar to the semi-annual layout of the Babylonian festival year. The ramifications of the change only come to the fore after a careful study of the agricultural conditions of ancient Israel - and Mesopotamia - makes clear that passover and the festival of unleavened bread were originally celebrated in the second month of the year. The first month of the year envisaged by the priestly festival calendar for the celebration of passover and the festival of unleavened bread in turn mirrors the date of one of the two semi-annual Babylonian New Year festivals. The two Babylonian New Year festivals were celebrated exactly six months apart at the vernal and autumnal equinoxes. In order to adapt the ancient Israelite festival calendar to the Babylonian scheme with two New Year festivals a year, the date of passover and the festival of unleavened bread had to be moved up by one month. The consequences for the origin of passover, the festival of unleavened bread, the festival of weeks and the festival of huts are charted and the relations between the various ancient Israelite festival calendars are determined anew.
Ritual
Catherine M. Bell,Bernard J Hanley Professor of Religious Studies Catherine Bell
Author : Catherine M. Bell,Bernard J Hanley Professor of Religious Studies Catherine Bell
Publisher : Oxford University Press on Demand
Page : 368 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 1997
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780195110517
Ritual by Catherine M. Bell,Bernard J Hanley Professor of Religious Studies Catherine Bell Pdf
Catherine Bell provides a practical introduction to ritual and its study with comprehensive overviews of the most influential theories of religion and ritual. The book examines the major categories of ritual activity.
An Introduction to Ancient Mesopotamian Religion
Tammi J. Schneider
Author : Tammi J. Schneider
Publisher : Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing
Page : 157 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2011-06
Category : History
ISBN : 9780802829597
An Introduction to Ancient Mesopotamian Religion by Tammi J. Schneider Pdf
A fascinating look at ancient Middle Eastern religious belief and practice
The Palmyrenes of Dura-Europos
Lucinda Dirven
Author : Lucinda Dirven
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 424 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2015-08-27
Category : History
ISBN : 9789004295926
The Palmyrenes of Dura-Europos by Lucinda Dirven Pdf
This volume deals with the religion of Palmyrenes in Dura-Europos during the first three centuries of the Common Era, and focuses upon the religious interaction between this migrant community and their new residence. By studying the religious interaction of distinct groups on a local level, this study aims to contribute to a better understanding of the process of religious development and change in Syria during the Roman period. Information on the Palmyrenes of Dura-Europos consists primarily of archaeological remains that have been found there. The Palmyrene materials from Dura-Europos have never been published collectively, and for this reason they are enumerated and re-evaluated in the appendix. The book is richly illustrated with 20 figures and 22 plates.
The Jewish New Year Festival
Norman H. Snaith
Author : Norman H. Snaith
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
Page : 230 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2016-08-11
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781498295680
The Jewish New Year Festival by Norman H. Snaith Pdf
"This study has its origin in a twenty-year-old interest in Sigmund Mowinckel's theory of an annual new year Coronation Feast of Jehovah in Israel. The first outcome of this interest was a volume entitled Studies in the Psalter (1934) in which I endeavored to show that the psalms which Mowinckel associated most closely with this supposed Coronation Feast were actually post-exilic, and in any case were Sabbath psalms. It is impossible, if my thesis is sound, that these psalms could ever have been and the apparatus of a pre-exilic feast of the type which Mowinckel proposed." --From the Preface
Neo-Assyrian Historical Inscriptions and Syria-Palestine
Jeffrey Kah-Jin Kuan
Author : Jeffrey Kah-Jin Kuan
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2016-02-19
Category : History
ISBN : 9781498281430
Neo-Assyrian Historical Inscriptions and Syria-Palestine by Jeffrey Kah-Jin Kuan Pdf
This dissertation investigates the political and commercial relations among Israel/Judea, Aram-Damascus, and Tyre/Sidon in the ninth and eighth centuries BCE. The work focuses primarily on Assyrian historical inscriptions from the period, while non-Assyrian sources, including biblical material, is treated where it supplements the Assyrian sources.