Research Catalog

Title

Goddesses in context : on divine powers, roles, relationships and gender in Mesopotamian textual and visual sources / Julia M. Asher-Greve, Joan Goodnick Westenholz.

Author

Asher-Greve, Julia M.

Publication

• Fribourg, Switzerland : Academic Press Fribourg ; Göttingen : Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, [2013]
• ©2013

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Additional Authors

Westenholz, Joan Goodnick, 1943-

Description

xii, 454 pages : illustrations; 24 cm.

Series Statement

Orbis biblicus et orientalis, 1015-1850 ; 259

Uniform Title

Orbis biblicus et orientalis ; 259.

Subjects

• Goddesses in art
• Goddesses, Middle Eastern > History
• Sex > Mythology
• Mesopotamia > History

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (pages 301-355) and indexes.

Contents

In loving memory -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction / Julia M. Asher-Greve and Joan Goodnick Westenholz -- Map of mesopotamia -- Chronological table -- Gender theory and issues / Julia M. Asher-Greve -- On sexual differences and gender categories -- Changing gender, function, domain, rank/status of deities -- The discourse on the marginalization of goddesses -- Plethora of female deities / Joan Goodnick Westenholz -- The processes : syncretism, fusion, fission, and mutation -- The first stage : profusion -- Goddesses and their cities in the Late Uruk Period (ca. 3300-2900) -- Praising the goddesses in the early dynastie period (ca. 2900-2350) -- The melting pot of goddesses in the old Akkadian period (ca. 2350-2150) -- Retrospective notions and new trends : goddesses in the Neo-Sumerian period (ca. 2150-2000) -- The second stage : recession -- Goddesses in transformation in the old Babylonian period (ca. 2000-1595) -- Continuity and change : goddesses in the middle Babylonian period (ca. 1595-1000) -- The third stage : homogeneity and simplification -- Conflation : goddesses in the Neo-Babylonian period (740-539) -- Goddesses in perpetuity in the late Babylonian period (539-141) -- General trends -- Facets of change / Julia M. Asher-Greve -- The case of Ninḫursaĝa -- Mythological messages -- Enki and Ninmaḫ or when a goddess fails as 'Mother' -- Two tales of becoming Enlil's spouse -- Images / Julia M. Asher-Greve -- Image and religion -- The image issue -- Images as religious medium -- Visualizing deities -- Survey through time, space and place -- Inventing images of goddesses in the early Dynastie period -- Akkadian innovative images -- Goddesses in the majority : Neo-Sumerian period -- High-ranked goddesses on public monuments -- Protective goddesses -- Principal goddesses -- Seal images of principal goddess -- Seal images of principal goddess associated with birds -- Neo-Sumerian 'Conservatism' -- Statues -- The temple of Ningal at ur and the goddess on Anserini -- Goddesses in neighborhood shrines at ur -- Goddesses in palaces and private houses -- Roles and functions of Terracotta images of goddesses -- In the minority : goddesses on Old Babylonian seals -- Images of the Sippar Pantheon -- Goddess and king embracing -- Affinities to goddesses -- Power of presence : images of goddesses after the "Dark Age" -- Epilogue / Julia M. Asher-Greve and Joan Goodnick Westenholz -- Abbreviations -- Bibliography -- Indices -- Index of subjects -- Index of divine names -- Index of temples, sanctuaries, shrines -- Index of topographical names -- Index of royal and personal names -- Index of sumerian and akkadian words discussed -- Figures.

Call Number

JFE 13-2013

ISBN

• 9783525543825 (Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht : hd.bd.)
• 3525543824 (Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht : hd.bd.)
• 9783727817380 (Academic Press Fribourg : hd.bd.)
• 3727817380 (Academic Press Fribourg : hd.bd.)

OCLC

856902511

Author

Asher-Greve, Julia M.

Title

Goddesses in context : on divine powers, roles, relationships and gender in Mesopotamian textual and visual sources / Julia M. Asher-Greve, Joan Goodnick Westenholz.

Publisher

Fribourg, Switzerland : Academic Press Fribourg ; Göttingen : Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, [2013]

Copyright Date

©2013

Type of Content

text

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Series

Orbis biblicus et orientalis, 1015-1850 ; 259

Orbis biblicus et orientalis ; 259.

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references (pages 301-355) and indexes.

Added Author

Westenholz, Joan Goodnick, 1943- author.

Research Call Number

JFE 13-2013