| Description |
1 online resource (xiii, 253 pages) |
| Contents |
Cover -- Half-title -- Title page -- Copyright information -- Dedication -- Contents -- Preface -- Acknowledgements -- List of Abbreviations -- 1 Introduction: Self, Space and the Divine Embodiment Model -- Prefatory Remarks -- The Self As Space -- The Study of the Self -- The Self As Bounded Space -- The Study of Space -- Self Space As Heterotopian Space -- The State of the Question -- Space and Existence in Early Judaism and Christianity -- Early Judaism and Jewish Mysticism -- Early Christianity and the New Testament -- Christian 'Theological Anthropology' |
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4 Metallic Bodies and Deification by Ingestion: Material Embodiment in Hittite Anatolia -- Prefatory Remarks -- The Present Chapter -- The Sources -- Humanity and Divinity in Hittite Anatolia -- Hittite Conceptions of the Human -- A Hittite Cosmogony? -- Body and Soul in Hittite Thought -- Kinship with the Gods -- Hittite Conceptions of the Divine -- The Deification of Material Objects -- Embodiment in Cult Objects -- The Human As Embodied, Heterotopian Space -- The Royal Self As Embodied Space -- The Divinity of the Hittite Monarch -- The King As a God after Death |
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Divine Embodiment in the Ancient Near East -- The Divine Embodiment Model -- A Note on the Structure and Sources -- Concluding Remarks -- 2 Godlike Bodies and Radiant Souls: Divine Embodiment in Ancient Egypt -- Prefatory Remarks -- The Present Chapter -- The Sources -- The Body, the ba and the ka -- The Creation of the Cosmos -- The Constituent Parts of the Self -- The Body -- Divine Material in the Cosmos and the Self -- The Cosmos As Heterotopian Space -- The ba -- The ba As Manifestation -- The ba and Its Statue -- The ba and the Self -- The ka -- The Physical Nature of the ka |
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The Contagious Nature of the ka -- The Composite Self -- The Divinity of the Pharaoh -- The Pharaoh and the Gods -- Ramesses II -- Ramesses II's Worship of Seti I -- Ramesses II's Divine Self-Conception -- The Pharaoh As the Embodied Deity -- Concluding Remarks -- 3 Composite Beings and Sexy God-Kings: The Divinity of Humanity in Ancient Mesopotamia -- Prefatory Remarks -- The Present Chapter -- The Sources -- Human Creation in Mesopotamian Cosmogony -- The Human Self in Mesopotamian Origins -- The Human Self in Enuma Eliš -- Overview of Enuma Eliš -- The Creation of Humanity in Enuma Eliš |
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The Myth of Atraḫasīs -- The Creation of Humanity in Atraḫasīs -- The Components of the Self -- The Mixed Nature of the Self -- Human Creation in the Song of the Hoe -- Overview of the Song of the Hoe -- The Human Seed (numun) -- 'Where Flesh Came Forth/Grew' (uzu-ed2-a/uzu-mú-a) -- Cosmos, Temple, Human -- The Temple As Microcosm -- The Body As Microcosm -- Divine Embodiment in the Human Body -- Mesopotamian God-Kings -- The King and the Gods -- Narām-Sîn's Divine Self-Conception -- Narām-Sîn's Divine Sexiness -- Narām-Sîn's Ur III Successors -- Concluding Remarks |
| Summary |
"In this book, Tyson Putthoff explores the relationship between gods and humans, and between divine nature and human nature, in the Ancient Near East. In this world gods lived among humans. The two groups shared the world with one another, each playing a special role in maintaining order in the cosmos. Humans also shared aspects of a godlike nature. Even in their natural condition, humans enjoyed a taste of the divine state. Indeed, gods not only lived among humans, but also they lived inside them, taking up residence in the physical body. As such, human nature was actually a composite of humanity and divinity. Putthoff offers new insights into the ancients' understanding of humanity's relationship with the gods, providing a comparative study of this phenomenon from the third millennium BCE to the first century CE. His book will be of interest to scholars and students of history, philosophy, theology and anthropology of the Ancient Near East and the biblical world"-- Provided by publisher |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on November 17, 2020) |
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Gods.
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Incarnation.
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Human body -- Religious aspects.
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Religion.
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Gods.
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Human body -- Religious aspects.
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Incarnation.
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| SUBJECT |
Middle East -- Religion
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Mediterranean Region -- Religion
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| Subject |
Middle East.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| LC no. |
2020003299 |
| ISBN |
9781108854139 |
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1108854133 |
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9781108848091 |
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1108848095 |
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