Hittite Texts And Greek Religion
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Hittite Texts and Greek Religion
Author | : Ian Rutherford |
Publsiher | : Oxford University Press |
Total Pages | : 320 |
Release | : 2020-09-23 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 9780192599940 |
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Our knowledge of ancient Greece has been transformed in the last century by an increased understanding of the cultures of the Ancient Near East. This is particularly true of ancient religion. This book looks at the relationship between the religious systems of Ancient Greece and the Hittites, who controlled Turkey in the Late Bronze Age (1400-1200 BC). The cuneiform texts preserved in the Hittite archives provide a particularly rich source for religious practice, detailing festivals, purification rituals, oracle-consultations, prayers, and myths of the Hittite state, as well as documenting the religious practice of neighbouring Anatolian states in which the Hittites took an interest. Hittite religion is thus more comprehensively documented than any other ancient religious tradition in the Near East, even Egypt. The Hittites are also known to have been in contact with Mycenaean Greece, known to them as Ahhiyawa. The book first sets out the evidence and provides a methodological paradigm for using comparative data. It then explores cases where there may have been contact or influence, such as in the case of scapegoat rituals or the Kumarbi-Cycle. Finally, it considers key aspects of religious practices shared by both systems, such as the pantheon, rituals of war, festivals, and animal sacrifice. The aim of such a comparison is to discover clues that may further our understanding of the deep history of religious practices and, when used in conjunction with historical data, illuminate the differences between cultures and reveal what is distinctive about each of them.
Hittite Texts and Greek Religion
Author | : Ian Rutherford |
Publsiher | : Oxford University Press, USA |
Total Pages | : 404 |
Release | : 2020-08-06 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780199593279 |
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Our knowledge of ancient Greek religion has been transformed in the last century by an increased understanding of the cultures of the Ancient Near East. Using preserved cuneiform texts, this book explores cases of contact or influence between Ancient Greece and the Hittites to further our understanding of the complex history of religious practices.
Some Aspects of Hittite Religion
Author | : O R Gurney |
Publsiher | : OUP/British Academy |
Total Pages | : 106 |
Release | : 1977 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : UOM:39015002767666 |
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Parallels between Hittite civilisation and the Old Testament belong largely to the field of religion. In the first of his three Schweich lectures (delivered in 1976) Professor Gurney traces the historical development of the Hittite pantheon, while in his second and third lectures he selects some aspects of Hittite religion which can be compared with ancient Hebrew and Canaanite institutions. The second lecture describes the cult, both local and official, and the purpose of the open-air temple at Yazilikaya. The third is devoted to Hittite rituals of elimination and substitution and the mortuary ritual for the King. Parallels are drawn with the biblical masseba as a cult object and with the scapegoat ritual of Leviticus.
The Ahhiyawa Texts
Author | : Gary M. Beckman,Trevor Bryce,Eric H. Cline |
Publsiher | : Brill Academic Publishers |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2012 |
Genre | : Achaeans |
ISBN | : 9004219714 |
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This volume offers, for the first time in a single source, English translations of all twenty-six fifteenth–thirteenth centuries B.C.E. Ahhiyawa texts, a commentary and brief exposition on each text’s historical implications, an introductory essay, and a longer essay on Mycenaean-Hittite interconnections.
From Hittite to Homer
Author | : Mary R. Bachvarova |
Publsiher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 691 |
Release | : 2016-03-10 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 9780521509794 |
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This book takes a bold new approach to the prehistory of Homeric epic, arguing for a fresh understanding of how Near Eastern influence worked.
Greek Religion and Culture the Bible and the Ancient Near East
Author | : Jan Bremmer |
Publsiher | : BRILL |
Total Pages | : 444 |
Release | : 2008-04-30 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 9789047432715 |
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This book greatly enhances our knowledge of the interrelationship of Greek religion & culture and the Ancient Near East by offering important analyses of Greek myths, divinities and terms like ‘magic’ and 'paradise', but also of the Greek contribution to the Christian notion of atonement.
Conceptualising Divine Unions in the Greek and Near Eastern Worlds
Author | : Anonim |
Publsiher | : BRILL |
Total Pages | : 334 |
Release | : 2022-01-04 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 9789004502529 |
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This volume is an interdisciplinary investigation and contextualization of the various concepts of divine union in the private and public sphere of the Greek and Near Eastern worlds.
Religious Convergence in the Ancient Mediterranean
Author | : Sandra Blakely,Billie Jean Collins |
Publsiher | : Lockwood Press |
Total Pages | : 597 |
Release | : 2019-12-15 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 9781948488174 |
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This volume brings together scholars in religion, archaeology, philology, and history to explore case studies and theoretical models of converging religions. The twenty-four essays offered in this volume, which derive from Hittite, Cilician, Lydian, Phoenician, Greek, and Roman cultural settings, focus on encounters at the boundaries of cultures, landscapes, chronologies, social class and status, the imaginary, and the materially operative. Broad patterns ultimately emerge that reach across these boundaries, and suggest the state of the question on the study of convergence, and the potential fruitfulness for comparative and interdisciplinary studies as models continue to evolve.