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What’s in a Divine Name? - Religious Systems and Human Agency in the Ancient World
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What’s in a Divine Name? - Religious Systems and Human Agency in the Ancient World
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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.
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