Religion in Ancient Mesopotamia

Informationen zum Autor Jean Bottéro is the emeritus director of l'École Pratique des Hautes Études, quatrième section, Paris. He is the author of The Oldest Cuisine in the World: Cooking in Mesopotamia; Mesopotamia: Writing, Reasoning, and the Gods , and coauthor of Ancestor of the West: Writing, Reasoning, and Religion in the Ancient Near East , all published by the University of Chicago Press. Teresa Lavender Fagan has translated more than a dozen books for the University of Chicago Press. Klappentext One of the world's foremost experts on Assyriology, Jean Bottéro has studied the religion of ancient Mesopotamia for more than fifty years. Building on these many years of research, Bottéro here presents the definitive account of one of the world's oldest known religions. He shows how ancient Mesopotamian religion was practiced both in the public and private spheres, how it developed over the three millennia of its active existence, and how it profoundly influenced Western civilization, including the Hebrew Bible. Zusammenfassung A well written guide to Mesopotamian religion by one of the world's foremost Assyriologists. Bottero studies the public and private relationships between the people and the divine! their cosmology! hymns and prayers! rituals! myths and magic.

Product details

• Authors: Jean Bottero, Jean Bottéro, BOTTERO JEAN
• Assisted by: Teresa Lavender Fagan (Translation), Fagan Teresa Lavender (Translation)
• Publisher: University Of Chicago Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 01.09.2004
• EAN: 9780226067186
• ISBN: 978-0-226-06718-6
• No. of pages: 260
• Dimensions: 152 mm x 235 mm x 13 mm
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > Antiquity; Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous; HISTORY / Middle East / General, HISTORY / Ancient / General, Mesopotamia, Middle Eastern history, Ancient History, Ancient history: to c 500 CE