Is There Anything New under the (Mediterranean) Sun? Expressions of Near Eastern Deities in the Graeco-Roman World
نام عام مواد
[Article]
نام نخستين پديدآور
Daniel R. Miller
وضعیت نشر و پخش و غیره
محل نشرو پخش و غیره
Leiden
نام ناشر، پخش کننده و غيره
Brill
یادداشتهای مربوط به خلاصه یا چکیده
متن يادداشت
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.
مجموعه
تاريخ نشر
2014
توصيف ظاهري
345-370
عنوان
Religion and Theology
شماره جلد
20/3-4
شماره استاندارد بين المللي پياييندها
1574-3012
اصطلاحهای موضوعی کنترل نشده
اصطلاح موضوعی
cult
اصطلاح موضوعی
deity
اصطلاح موضوعی
Egypt
اصطلاح موضوعی
General
اصطلاح موضوعی
Greece
اصطلاح موضوعی
History of Religion
اصطلاح موضوعی
Mesopotamia
اصطلاح موضوعی
Religion & Society
اصطلاح موضوعی
Religious Studies
اصطلاح موضوعی
Rome
اصطلاح موضوعی
sign
اصطلاح موضوعی
Social Sciences
اصطلاح موضوعی
Theology and World Christianity
اصطلاح موضوعی
translatability
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