| Edition |
1st pbk. ed. |
| Description |
xxx, 309 pages : illustrations, maps ; 23 cm |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 285-288) and index. |
| Summary |
Explores the religious practices and traditions of ancient Middle Eastern cultures, discussing pyramids, tombs, and Egyptian temples, and describing the gods, rulers, beliefs about afterlife, and worship rituals of Egypt, Mesopotamia, and Syria-Palestine. |
| Contents |
Religion and its characteristic expression -- Egypt : historical survey -- Egypt : the gods and the world they made -- Egypt : the king and royal power -- Egypt : the world of the dead -- Egypt : the human world -- Mesopotamia : historical survey -- Mesopotamia : the gods and the world they made -- Mesopotamia : the world of kings and heroes -- Mesopotamia : the world of the dead -- Mesopotamia : the human world -- Syria-Palestine : historical survey -- Syria-Palestine : the gods and the world they made -- Syria-Palestine : kings and prophets -- Syria-Palestine : suffering and death -- Syria-Palestine : the human world -- Change and continuity in the Hellenistic Age. |
| Subject |
Middle East -- Religion.
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Mythology, Middle Eastern.
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Mythology, Middle Eastern. (OCoLC)fst01031862
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Religion. (OCoLC)fst01093763
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Middle East. (OCoLC)fst01241586
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| ISBN |
0742562271 |
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9780742562271 |
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