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The Revival of the Anu Cult and the Nocturnal Fire Ceremony at Late Babylonian Uruk (Hardcover)
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The Revival of the Anu Cult and the Nocturnal Fire Ceremony at Late Babylonian Uruk (Hardcover)
Series: Culture and History of the Ancient Near East, 95
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In The Revival of the Anu Cult and the Nocturnal Fire Ceremony at
Late Babylonian Uruk, Julia Krul offers a comprehensive study of
the rise of the sky god Anu as patron deity of Uruk in the Late
Babylonian period (ca. 480-100 B.C.). She reconstructs the
historical development of the Anu cult, its underlying theology,
and its daily rites of worship, with a particular focus on the
yearly nocturnal fire ceremony at the Anu temple, the Bit Res.
Providing the first in-depth analysis of the ceremony, Julia Krul
convincingly identifies it as a seasonal renewal festival with an
important exorcistic component, but also as a reinforcement of
local hierarchical relationships and the elite status of the Anu
priesthood. "With this study, Krul adds significantly to the
research on Babylonian temple rituals in general, providing a
useful methodology and survey of secondary sources....This book
offers an excellent in-depth analysis of the nocturnal fire
ceremony as it could have been celebrated at Hellenistic Uruk. It
forms a good starting-point for comparison with and further study
of other Late Babylonian rituals from both Uruk and Babylon." -
Celine Debourse, Vienna, in: Wiener Zeitschrift fur die Kunde des
Morgenlandes 109 (2019) "The book is essentially a commentary on a
late cuneiform text from 3rd-century BCE Uruk describing a
nocturnal sacrificial ritual held annually on the winter solstice
(16 Tevet). The text itself is well known, having first been
published by F. Thureau-Dangin in his classic work Rituels
accadiens (1921), but this book is the most comprehensive
far-reaching commentary on this important text, with valuable
extraneous information [...]. There is much valuable data in this
book regarding late Babylonian ritual practice, couched in an
informative narrative." -Markham J. Geller, Journal for the Study
of the Old Testament 43.5 (2019)
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