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Is There Anything New under the (Mediterranean) Sun? Expressions of Near Eastern Deities in the Graeco-Roman World
[Article]
Daniel R. Miller
Leiden
Brill
The concept of divine translatability was a prominent feature of Graeco-Roman religion. Major deities of the Greek and Roman pantheons had their origins in the ancient Near East, and the Greeks and Romans equated members of their pantheons with ancient Near Eastern divinities having similar characteristics and functions. This study employs salient examples of equations and correspondences between the Graeco-Roman and ancient Near Eastern pantheons, as well as attestations of multiple manifestations of the same deity based on function or geographic region, as a heuristic device for problematizing the issue of divine translatability in general. It is asserted that a deity is but a projection of human will, a signifier without a signified. This, in turn, locates the phenomenon of divine translatability within the realm of the subjective, making any reasonable "translation" of two or more deities as valid as any other, with no external adjudication of the matter possible.
2014
345-370
Religion and Theology
20/3-4
1574-3012
cult
deity
Egypt
General
Greece
History of Religion
Mesopotamia
Religion & Society
Religious Studies
Rome
sign
Social Sciences
Theology and World Christianity
translatability
Daniel R. Miller
10.1163/15743012-12341268
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