From Ritual to God in the Ancient Near East: Tracing the Origins of Religion

Nicola Laneri

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From Ritual to God in the Ancient Near East

Tracing the Origins of Religion

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Nicola Laneri, University of Catania, Italy

Publisher:: Cambridge University Press
Online publication date:: May 2024
Print publication year:: 2024
Online ISBN:: 9781009306621
DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1017/9781009306621

Subjects:: Ancient History, Classical Studies

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Human belief systems and practices can be traced to ca. 10,000 BCE in the Ancient Near East, where the earliest evidence of ritual structures and objects can be found. Religious architecture, the relics of human skeletons, animal symbolism, statues, and icons all contributed to a complex network into which the spiritual essence of the divine was materially present. In this book, Nicola Laneri traces the transformation of the belief systems that shaped life in ancient Near Eastern communities, from prehistoric times until the advent of religious monotheism in the Levant during the first millennium BCE. Considering a range of evidence, from stone ceremonial enclosures, such as as Göbleki Tepe, to the construction of the first temples and icons of Mesopotamian polytheistic beliefs, to the Temple of Jerusalem, the iconic center of Israelite monotheism, Laneri offers new insights into the symbolic value embodied in the religious materiality produced in the ancient Near East.

‘Well written, well illustrated, and well documented, this volume will be of great interest to both students and scholars of ancient religion … Highly recommended.’

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From Ritual to God in the Ancient Near East
pp i-ii

From Ritual to God in the Ancient Near East - Title page
pp iii-iii

Copyright page
pp iv-iv

Dedication
pp v-vi

Contents
pp vii-viii

Preface
pp ix-xii

Acknowledgments
pp xiii-xiv

Introduction: Interpreting Religious Materiality in the Ancient Near East
pp 1-20

Part I - In the Name of the Spirits
pp 21-78

1 - Materializing the Human Body
pp 23-46

2 - Sacred Nature
pp 47-78

Part II - For the Glory of the Gods
pp 79-162

3 - Constructing Cosmotheism
pp 81-120

4 - Imagining the Divine
pp 121-162

Part III - A New Era
pp 163-203

5 - One God in One Temple
pp 165-203

Conclusions
pp 204-216

References
pp 217-242

Index
pp 243-252

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