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Language: en
Pages: 420
Authors: Niek Veldhuis
Categories: History
Type: BOOK - Published: 2021-10-11 - Publisher: BRILL

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This book uses insights from religious studies, literary theory, and the history of science for understanding the Sumerian composition Nanše and the Birds in t
The Literature of Ancient Sumer
Language: en
Pages: 437
Authors: Jeremy Black
Categories: Literary Collections
Type: BOOK - Published: 2004-11-25 - Publisher: Oxford University Press

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Sumerian is the oldest written language of ancient Iraq, first written down some 5000 years ago. Its literature, encompassing narrative myths, lyrical hymns, pr
A Story of YHWH
Language: en
Pages: 355
Authors: Shawn W. Flynn
Categories: History
Type: BOOK - Published: 2019-09-06 - Publisher: Routledge

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A Story of YHWH investigates the ancient Israelite expression of their deity, and tracks why variation occurred in that expression, from the early Iron Age to t
Birdscapes
Language: en
Pages: 398
Authors: Jeremy Mynott
Categories: Nature
Type: BOOK - Published: 2021-10-12 - Publisher: Princeton University Press

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What draws us to the beauty of a peacock, the flight of an eagle, or the song of a nightingale? Why are birds so significant in our lives and our sense of the w
The Materiality of Divine Agency
Language: en
Pages: 282
Authors: Beate Pongratz-Leisten
Categories: Religion
Type: BOOK - Published: 2015-10-16 - Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG

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Two topics of current critical interest, agency and materiality, are here explored in the context of their intersection with the divine. Specific case studies,