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The God Resheph in the Ancient Near East (Hardcover)
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The God Resheph in the Ancient Near East (Hardcover)
Series: Orientalische Religionen in der Antike, 11
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Resheph was quite a popular god in the 3rd and 2nd millennia BC -
especially in Syria - but during the 1st millennium his cult became
extinct. Finally it was only maintained in several peripheral and
isolated sites, such as in the Palmyra desert and in Cyprus. Maciej
M. Munnich presents the written sources which mentioned Resheph and
analyzes the features of Resheph's cult. He emphasizes that there
is no confirmation for the theory that Resheph was a lord of the
netherworld. Resheph was a belligerent, aggressive god who used
diseases to attack people, but who could also heal. In Egypt,
Resheph was originally venerated as the deity who supported the
Pharaoh in battles, but then he was summoned mainly because of
illness and everyday needs. In ancient Israel, Resheph was at first
reduced to the level of a demonic assistant of Yahweh, but his name
then became a common term, always however in reference to the
character of the deity. Among the Hurrites, Resheph appeared as a
divine guardian of trade. He was not treated as a solely harmful,
dangerous god, as has been suggested in numerous previous studies.
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