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  • 1
    UID:
    almahu_9949697273502882
    Format: 1 online resource (XIX, 876 p.)
    Edition: 1st ed.
    ISBN: 3-11-132651-9
    Content: Divine Names are a key component in the communication between humans and gods in Antiquity. Their complexity derives not only from the impressive number of onomastic elements available to describe and target specific divine powers, but also from their capacity to be combined within distinctive configurations of gods. The volume collects 36 essays pertaining to many different contexts - Egypt, Anatolia, Levant, Mesopotamia, Greece, Rome - which address the multiple functions and wide scope of divine onomastics. Scrutinized in a diachronic and comparative perspective, divine names shed light on how polytheisms and monotheisms work as complex systems of divine and human agents embedded in an historical framework. Names imply knowledge and play a decisive role in rituals; they move between cities and regions, and can be translated; they interact with images and reflect the intrinsic plurality of divine beings. This vivid exploration of divine names pays attention to the balance between tradition and innovation, flexibility and constraints, to the material and conceptual parameters of onomastic practices, to cross-cultural contexts and local idiosyncrasies, in a word to human strategies for shaping the gods through their names.
    Note: Frontmatter -- , Contents -- , Abbreviations -- , Introduction. What Does a Divine Name Do? -- , Part 1: Ritual Names: Communication with the Divine and Human Agency -- , Introduction -- , Writing Divine Names in Ritual Practices of Ancient Mesopotamia -- , Divine Naming in Greek and Chinese Polytheism -- , Divine Names in Ritual Settings in the Dead Sea Scrolls -- , Strategies for Naming the Gods in Greek Hymns -- , Divine Names and Naming the Divine in Livy -- , Part 2: One and Many: Onomastic Bricolage -- , Introduction -- , Incomplete Ištar Assimilation: Reconsidering the Goddess's Divine History in Light of a Madonnine Analogy -- , The Many Faces of Hadad in Aramaean Syria and Anatolia (1st Mill. BCE). Three Case Studies on Hadad at Sikāni, Samʾal, and Damascus -- , Demeter as Thesmophoros: What Does She Bring Forth? -- , The Onomastic Attributes of Greek Healing Deities -- , Part 3: Names and Images -- , Introduction -- , What Do Attributes Say About Apollo? -- , Gods' Names - Gods' Images. Dedications and Communication Process in Sanctuaries -- , Epithets and Iconographic Attributes of Kubaba in Syro-Anatolian Iron Age Sources -- , How to Create a God: The Name and Iconography of the Deified Deceased Piyris at Ayn El-Labakha (Kharga Oasis, Egypt) -- , Part 4: Plural Divine Configurations, "Pantheons"and Divine Sovereignty -- , Introduction -- , In Search of God Baal in Phoenician and Cypriot Epigraphy (First Millennium BCE) -- , Zeus hupatos kreionton: A Comparative Study on Divine Sovereignty, Between Attica and Syria -- , Divine Configurations and "Pantheons": Some Assemblages of Theoi in North-Western Greece -- , The Carian Stratonicea's Exception: Two Equal Megistoi Theoi as Divine Patrons in the Roman Period -- , Part 5: Human Names, Divine Names -- , Introduction -- , In the Name of Gods. In Search of Divine Epithets Through Luwic Personal Names -- , Who's in a Name? Human-Divine Relations in Personal Names from the Tophet of Carthage -- , Theophoric Aramaic Personal Names as Onomastic Sequences in Diasporic and Cosmopolitan Communities -- , Christian Contexts, Non-Christian Names: Onomastic Mobility and Transmission in Late Antique Syria -- , Human Honours and Divine Attributes -- , Call Me by God's Name. Onomaturgy in Three Early Christian Texts -- , Part 6: Names and Knowledge -- , Introduction -- , The Names of Greek Gods. Divine Signs or Human Creations? -- , "If by This Name it Pleases Him to be Invoked": Ancient Etymology and Greek Polytheism -- , The All-Encompassing Name: Multilingualism, Myth and Materiality in a Late Greek Papyrus of Ritual Power (PGM XIII) -- , Yahweh's Divine "Names". Changing Configurations in the Hebrew Bible and Ancient Israel -- , The Lord of Spirits in the Book of Parables of Enoch from a Levantine Point of View -- , Part 7: Mobility, Transmission, Translation -- , Introduction -- , Interpretatio Among Levantines in Hellenistic Egypt -- , Divine Names, Heavenly Bodies, and Human Visions: The Septuagint and the Transformation of Ancient Israelite Religion -- , Divine Names and Bilingualism in Rome: Religious Dynamics in Multilingual Spaces -- , Apollo Delphinios - Again -- , Cross-Cultural Pilgrimage and Religious Change: Translation, Filial Cults, and Networks -- , Postface -- , Postface -- , Some Thoughts on the Origins of the Divine and Interaction with Divinity in the Ancient Near East -- , Naming the Gods between Immanence and Transcendence in Greco-Roman Polytheisms -- , Index Nominum -- , People -- , Places -- , Topics , Issued also in print. , In English.
    Additional Edition: ISBN 3-11-132627-6
    Language: English
    URL: Cover
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  • 2
    Online Resource
    Online Resource
    Cambridge, United Kingdom :Cambridge Scholars Publishing,
    UID:
    almafu_9960118626402883
    Format: 1 online resource (xii, 244 pages) : , digital, PDF file(s).
    ISBN: 1-108-91555-8 , 1-108-91097-1 , 1-108-90393-2
    Series Statement: Society for Old Testament study monographs
    Content: The aggression of the biblical God named Yhwh is notorious. Students of theology, the Bible, and the Ancient Near East know that the Hebrew Bible describes Yhwh acting destructively against his client country, Israel, and against its kings. But is Yhwh uniquely vengeful, or was he just one among other, similarly ferocious patron gods? To answer this question, Collin Cornell compares royal biblical psalms with memorial inscriptions. He finds that the Bible shares deep theological and literary commonalities with comparable texts from Israel's ancient neighbours. The centrepiece of both traditions is the intense mutual loyalty of gods and kings. In the event that the king's monument and legacy comes to harm, gods avenge their individual royal protégé. In the face of political inexpedience, kings honour their individual divine benefactor.
    Note: Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 29 Oct 2020).
    Additional Edition: ISBN 1-108-84267-4
    Language: English
    Keywords: Hochschulschrift
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  • 3
    Book
    Book
    Cambridge, United Kingdom :Cambridge University Press,
    UID:
    almafu_BV046954612
    Format: xi, 244 Seiten.
    ISBN: 978-1-108-84267-9
    Series Statement: Society for Old Testament study. Monograph series
    Note: Includes bibliographical references and index , Dissertation Emory University 2018
    Additional Edition: Erscheint auch als Online-Ausgabe Cornell, Collin, 1988- Divine aggression in Psalms and inscriptions Cambridge, United Kingdom ; New York, NY, USA : Cambridge University Press, 2020 ISBN 978-1-108-90393-6
    Language: English
    Subjects: Theology
    RVK:
    Keywords: Zorn Gottes ; Bibel Psalmen ; Inschrift ; Hochschulschrift ; Hochschulschrift
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  • 4
    Online Resource
    Online Resource
    Cambridge :Cambridge University Press,
    UID:
    almafu_9961358416902883
    Format: 1 online resource (65 pages) : , digital, PDF file(s).
    Edition: 1st ed.
    ISBN: 1-009-07971-9 , 1-009-07951-4 , 1-009-06717-6
    Series Statement: Cambridge elements. Elements in religion and monotheism,
    Content: The aggression of the biblical God is notorious. The phrase 'Old Testament God' conjures up images of jealousy and wrath, smiting and judging. But is it only an accident that this god became capital-G God, the unique creator and sustainer of three world religions? Or is there a more substantive connection between monotheism and divine aggression? This Element proposes exactly this causal connection. In three case studies, it showcases ways that literarily treating one god alone as god amplifies divine destructiveness. This happens according to two dynamics: God absorbs the destructive power of other divine beings-and God monopolizes divinity such that other beings, even special ones like God's beloved king or the people of God, are rendered vulnerable to divine aggression. The Element also attends to the literary contexts and counterbalances within which the Hebrew Bible imagines divine aggression.
    Note: Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 18 Dec 2023).
    Additional Edition: ISBN 1-009-45442-0
    Language: English
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  • 5
    Online Resource
    Online Resource
    University Park, Pennsylvania :The Penn State University Press,
    UID:
    almafu_9961673516702883
    Format: 1 online resource (280 p.) : , 8 illustrations
    ISBN: 1-64602-093-6
    Content: "A collection of essays by scholars of the Hebrew Bible providing recommendations for how Jews and Christians can think theologically about the challenge of similarities between YHWH and other ancient gods"--
    Note: God and the gods : history of religions as an approach and context for biblical theology / Patrick D. Miller, Jr. -- Canaan -- Israel -- Christianity : the case for a vertical ecumenism / Othmar Keel, trans. by Armin Siedlecki -- More than one god? : three models for construing the relations between YHWH and the other gods / Bob Becking -- Who is like you among the gods? : some observations on configuring YHWH in the Old Testament / J. Andrew Dearman -- Why should the look-alikes be a problem? / Robert Goldenberg -- Theological approaches to the problem of God's ancient look-alikes / Collin Cornell -- Chemosh looks like YHWH but that's okay / Josey B. Snyder -- YHWH and Chemosh : an investigation of look-alike gods using the moral foundations theory / M. Patrick Graham -- YHWH, Chemosh, and the Regula fidei / Brent A. Strawn -- Is there a counterpart in the Hebrew Bible to New Testament antisemitism? / Jon D. Levinson -- Miqreh and YHWH : fate, chance, simultaneity, and providence / Stephen B. Chapman -- 'Can a woman forget her nursing child?' : divine breastfeeding and the God of Israel / Christopher B. Hays -- Bulls and horses, gods and goddesses : the religious iconography of Israel's neighbors / P.M. Michele Daviau. , In English.
    Additional Edition: ISBN 1-57506-744-7
    Language: English
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  • 6
    UID:
    almafu_9959835051002883
    Format: 1 online resource (280 p.) : , 8 illustrations
    ISBN: 9781646020935
    Content: The Bible says that YHWH alone is God and that there is none like him—but texts and artwork from antiquity show that many gods looked very similar. In this volume, scholars of the Hebrew Bible and its historical contexts address the problem of YHWH’s ancient look-alikes, providing recommendations for how Jews and Christians can think theologically about this challenge.Sooner or later, whether in a religion class or a seminary course, students bump up against the fact that God—the biblical God—was one among other, comparable gods. The ancient world was full of gods, including great gods of conquering empires, dynastic gods of petty kingdoms, goddesses of fertility, and personal spirit guardians. And in various ways, these gods look like the biblical God. Like the God of the Bible, they, too, controlled the fates of nations, chose kings, bestowed fecundity and blessing, and cared for their individual human charges. They spoke and acted. They experienced wrath and delight. They inspired praise. All of this leaves Jews and Christians in a bind: how can they confess that the God named YHWH was (and is) the true and living God, in view of this God’s profound similarities to all these others?The essays in this volume address the theological challenge these parallels create, providing reflections on how Jews and Christians can keep faith in YHWH as God while acknowledging the reality of YHWH’s divine doppelgängers. It will be welcomed by undergraduates studying religion; seminarians and graduate students of Bible, theology, and the ancient world; and adult education classes.
    Note: Frontmatter -- , Contents -- , Editor’s Preface -- , Acknowledgments -- , List of Abbreviations -- , Part 1. The Problem at Large -- , Chapter 1. God and the Gods: History of Religion as an Approach and Context for Biblical Theology -- , Chapter 2. Canaan—Israel—Christianity: The Case for a Vertical Ecumenism -- , Chapter 3. More Than One God? Three Models for Construing the Relations Between YHWH and the Other Gods -- , Chapter 4. Who Is Like You Among the Gods? Some Observations on Configuring YHWH in the Old Testament -- , Chapter 5. Why Should the Look- Alikes Be a Problem? -- , Part 2. Chemosh as a Case Study -- , Chapter 6. Theological Approaches to the Problem of God’s Ancient Look- Alikes -- , Chapter 7. Chemosh Looks Like YHWH, but That’s Okay -- , Chapter 8. YHWH and Chemosh: An Investigation of Look- Alike Gods Using the Moral Foundations Theory -- , Chapter 9. YHWH, Chemosh, and the Rule of Faith -- , Chapter 10. Is There a Counterpart in the Hebrew Bible to New Testament Anti- Semitism? -- , Part 3. Other Case Studies -- , Chapter 11. Miqreh and YHWH: Fate, Chance, Simultaneity, and Providence -- , Chapter 12. “Can a Woman Forget Her Nursing Child?” Divine Breastfeeding and the God of Israel -- , Chapter 13. Bulls and Horses, Gods and Goddesses: The Religious Iconography of Israel’s Neighbors -- , List of Contributors -- , Index of Authors -- , Index of Scripture -- , Subject Index , In English.
    Language: English
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  • 7
    Book
    Book
    University Park, Pennsylvania : Eisenbrauns
    UID:
    gbv_1686758197
    Format: XVI, 261 Seiten , Illustrationen
    ISBN: 9781575067445
    Content: God and the gods : history of religions as an approach and context for biblical theology / Patrick D. Miller, Jr. -- Canaan--Israel--Christianity : the case for a vertical ecumenism / Othmar Keel, trans. by Armin Siedlecki -- More than one god? : three models for construing the relations between YHWH and the other gods / Bob Becking -- Who is like you among the gods? : some observations on configuring YHWH in the Old Testament / J. Andrew Dearman -- Why should the look-alikes be a problem? / Robert Goldenberg -- Theological approaches to the problem of God's ancient look-alikes / Collin Cornell -- Chemosh looks like YHWH but that's okay / Josey B. Snyder -- YHWH and Chemosh : an investigation of look-alike gods using the moral foundations theory / M. Patrick Graham -- YHWH, Chemosh, and the Regula fidei / Brent A. Strawn -- Is there a counterpart in the Hebrew Bible to New Testament antisemitism? / Jon D. Levinson -- Miqreh and YHWH : fate, chance, simultaneity, and providence / Stephen B. Chapman -- 'Can a woman forget her nursing child?' : divine breastfeeding and the God of Israel / Christopher B. Hays -- Bulls and horses, gods and goddesses : the religious iconography of Israel's neighbors / P.M. Michèle Daviau.
    Content: "A collection of essays by scholars of the Hebrew Bible providing recommendations for how Jews and Christians can think theologically about the challenge of similarities between YHWH and other ancient gods"--
    Note: Includes bibliographical references and index
    Language: English
    Keywords: Jahwe ; Bibel Altes Testament ; Göttlichkeit ; Alter Orient ; Aufsatzsammlung
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  • 8
    UID:
    gbv_1869637941
    ISSN: 2193-2840
    In: Encyclopedia of the bible and its reception, Berlin : de Gruyter, 2009, 8(2014), 2193-2840
    In: volume:8
    In: year:2014
    Language: English
    URL: Volltext  (lizenzpflichtig)
    URL: Volltext  (lizenzpflichtig)
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