07457cam a22009378i 4500 ocn904756102 OCoLC 20200709060353.0 m d cr ||||||||||| 150310t20152015paua ob 000 0 eng 2015009796 DLC eng rda pn DLC OCLCO N$T EBLCP YDXCP IDEBK CDX AGLDB ICA DEBSZ LOA ZCU NRC K6U COO OCLCQ MERUC IDK OCLCQ OCLCF D6H STF WRM OCLCQ VTS ICG INT OSU OCLCQ LVT MTU TKN LVT DKC OCLCQ M8D JSTOR $1 914151675 9781782976851 (electronic bk.) 9781782976837 (electronic bk.) 178297685X (electronic bk.) 1782976833 (electronic bk.) 9781782976790 (paperback) 9781782978497 (print) 9781782978503 (print) 9781782978510 (print) 1782978496 (print) 178297850X (print) 1782978518 (print) 1021643 (N$T) (OCoLC)904756102 (OCoLC)914151675 22573/ctvgzchzg JSTOR pcc aw----- BL1060 REL 017000 bisacsh REL 113000 bisacsh REL 054000 bisacsh HIS 002000 bisacsh REL 033000 bisacsh SOC 003000 bisacsh 200.9394 23 MAIN Defining the sacred : approaches to the archaeology of religion in the Near East / edited by Nicola Laneri. 1st [edition]. 1506 Philadelphia : Oxbow Books, 2015. ©2015 1 online resource (ix, 186 pages) : illustrations text txt rdacontent computer n rdamedia online resource nc rdacarrier Includes bibliographical references. Cover; Title Page; Copyright Page; Contents; Contributors; Preface; Chapter 1: Introduction: Investigating archaeological approaches to the study of religious practices and beliefs; Part I: Sacred Nature; Chapter 2: Animal burials and their cults in Margiana; Chapter 3: Identifying sacrifice in Bronze Age Near Eastern iconography; Chapter 4: Cult and the rise of desert pastoralism: a case study from the Negev; Chapter 5: Thoughts on material expressions of cultic practice. Standing stone monuments of the Early Bronze Age in the southern Levant. Chapter 6: Late Chalcolithic Mesopotamia: towards a definition of sacred space and its evolutionPart II: Housing the God; Chapter 7: A sanctuary, or so fair a house? In defense of an archaeology of cult at Pre-Pottery Neolithic Göbekli Tepe; Chapter 8: Where to worship? Religion in Iron II Israel and Judah; Chapter 9: Communal places of worship: ritual activities and ritualised ideology during the Early Bronze Age Jezirah; Chapter 10: Open spaces around the temples and their ritual use: archaeological evidence from the Bronze and Iron Age Levant. Chapter 11: Ritual circumambulations in the Syro-Mesopotamian cuneiform texts. An overviewChapter 12: A temple lifecycle: rituals of construction, restoration, and destruction of some ED Mesopotamian and Syrian sacred buildings; Part III: The Materialisation ofReligious Beliefs and Practices; Chapter 13: Ritual performance and religion in early Neolithic societies; Chapter 14: Casting the sacred: Chalcolithic metallurgy and ritual in the southern Levant; Chapter 15: How better understanding of ritual practices can help the comprehension of religious feelings. Religion is a phenomenon that is inseparable from human society. It brings about a set of emotional, ideological and practical elements that are pervasive in the social fabric of any society and can be characterized by a number of features. These include the establishment of intermediaries in the relationship between humans and the divine; the construction of ceremonial places for worshipping the gods and practicing ritual performances; and the creation ritual paraphernalia. Investigating the religious dimensions of ancient societies encounters problems in defining such elements, especially with regard to societies that lack textual evidences and has tended to lead towards the identification of differentiation between the mental dimension, related to religious beliefs, and the material one associated with religious practices, resulting in a separation between scholars able to investigate, and possibly reconstruct, ritual practices (i.e., archaeologists), and those interested in defining the realm of ancient beliefs (i.e., philologists and religious historians). The aim of this collection of papers is to attempt to bridge these two dimensions by breaking down existing boundaries in order to form a more comprehensive vision of religion among ancient Near Eastern societies. This approach requires that a higher consideration be given to those elements (either artificial -- buildings, objects, texts, etc. -- or natural -- landscapes, animals, trees, etc.) that are created through a materialization of religious beliefs and practices enacted by members of communities. These issues are addressed in a series of specific case-studies covering a broad chronological framework that from the Pre-pottery Neolithic to the Iron Age. Print version record. Master record variable field(s) change: 072 Middle East Religion. Archaeology and religion Middle East. Excavations (Archaeology) Middle East. Middle East Antiquities. RELIGION Comparative Religion. bisacsh RELIGION Essays. bisacsh RELIGION Reference. bisacsh Antiquities. fast (OCoLC)fst00810745 Archaeology and religion. fast (OCoLC)fst00813007 Excavations (Archaeology) fast (OCoLC)fst00917564 Religion. fast (OCoLC)fst01093763 Middle East. fast (OCoLC)fst01241586 HISTORY / Ancient / General bisacsh Electronic books. Laneri, Nicola, editor. Print version: Defining the sacred. 1st [edition]. Philadelphia : Oxbow Books, 2015 9781782976790 (DLC) 2015007683 EBSCOhost http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&db=nlabk&AN=1021643 505-00/$1 Chapter 6: Late Chalcolithic Mesopotamia: towards a definition of sacred space and its evolutionPart II: Housing the God; Chapter 7: A sanctuary, or so fair a houseIn defense of an archaeology of cult at Pre-Pottery Neolithic G询ekli Tepe; Chapter 8: Where to worshipReligion in Iron II Israel and Judah; Chapter 9: Communal places of worship: ritual activities and ritualised ideology during the Early Bronze Age Jezirah; Chapter 10: Open spaces around the temples and their ritual use: archaeological evidence from the Bronze and Iron Age Levant. 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