Idols of the People - Miniature Images of Clay in the Ancient Near East

Zusatztext Idols of the People is an excellent little book, and I would even venture to say that it was Roger Moorey's best book, a best book among a number of superb publications. Klappentext These lectures investigate the numerous miniature baked clay images from Canaan, Israel and Judah (c. 1600-600 BC). They constitute vital evidence for the imagery and domestic rituals of ordinary people, but significantly are not explicitly mentioned in the Old Testament. These terracottas are treated as a distinctive phenomenon with roots deep in prehistory and recurrent characteristics across millennia. Attention is focused on whether or not the female representations are worshippers of unknown deities or images of known goddesses, particularly in Early Israelite religion. Zusammenfassung These lectures investigate the numerous miniature baked clay images from Canaan, Israel and Judah (c. 1600-600 BC). They constitute vital evidence for the imagery and domestic rituals of ordinary people, but significantly are not explicitly mentioned in the Old Testament. Inhaltsverzeichnis In the Beginning: Origins and Originating Questions Terracottas in Early Complex Societies: Sumer, Babylonia, Syria, Egypt, and Canaan (c. 3000-1150 BC)

List of contents

• In the Beginning: Origins and Originating Questions


• Terracottas in Early Complex Societies: Sumer, Babylonia, Syria, Egypt, and Canaan (c. 3000-1150 BC)

Product details

• Authors: P R S Moorey, P. R. S. Moorey, P.R.S. Moorey
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 01.07.2025
• EAN: 9780197262801
• ISBN: 978-0-19-726280-1
• No. of pages: 92
• Dimensions: 164 mm x 242 mm x 14 mm
• Series: Schweich Lectures on Biblical Archaeology
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Religion/theology > Religious writings, prayers, songbooks, religious meditations; Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Religion: general, reference works; prehistory, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Archaeology, Middle East, Ancient / Biblical Israel, Archaeology by period / region, BCE to c 500 CE, BCE period – Protohistory, Biblical Archaeology