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1 online resource (viii, 380 pages) : illustrations. |
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polychrome |
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text file |
Series |
Beihefte zur Zeitschrift für die alttestamentliche Wissenschaft,
0934-2575 ;
Bd. 376
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Beihefte zur Zeitschrift für die alttestamentliche Wissenschaft ; 376.
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Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references. |
Contents |
Die Reduktion von Komplexität : das theologische Profil einer Gottheit und seine Umsetzung in der Ikonographie am Beispiel des Gottes Aššur im Assyrien des 1. Jt. v. Chr. / Angelika Berlejung -- Iconographic evidence for some Mesopotamian cult statues / Dominique Collon -- Babylonian almanac : a text for specialists? / Alasdair Livingstone -- Some demons of time and their functions in Mesopotamian iconography / Frans A.M. Wiggermann -- Problem of Achaemenid "religious policy" / Amélie Kuhrt -- Der Stoff, aus dem die Götter sind : zum Material griechisch-römischer Götterbilder und seiner ideellen Bedeutung / Balbina Bäbler und Heinz-Günther Nesselrath -- Frühe Apollonbilder und das Problem früher Zeusbilder / Erika Simon -- Wunschbilder : zu bildlichen Darstellungen abstrakter Personifikationen des guten Lebens / Marion Meyer -- Synkretistische Phänomene bei Gottheiten in antiken Mysterienkulten / Doris Engster -- Probleme der interpretatio Graeca von Gottheiten in der syrischen Dekapolis / Achim Lichtenberger -- Das Gottesbild des Bilderverbots / Sven Petry -- Die Entstehung des Bilderverbots / Matthias Köckert -- Der Koran als Kodex / Matthias Radscheit -- Veneration of images in the east Syriac tradition / Herman Teule -- Christians, Muslims and the image of the one God : iconophilia and iconophobia in the world of Islam in Umayyad and early Abbasid times / Sidney H. Griffith. |
Summary |
Divine images create their own world of theological reflection and religious practice. Pictorial representations have to reduce complexity, yet at the same time they create their own complexity. The present volume examines this phenomenon with papers on fundamental issues and presentations of material from the Ancient Orient, Greece and the Hellenic world. Papers on the contact between Christianity and Islam in the matter of the veneration of images make clear what compensation strategies are developed when pictorial representations are subject to theological censure. The volume contains eight. |
Local Note |
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Subject |
Gods in art.
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Gods in art. |
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Idols and images.
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Idols and images. |
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Archaeology and religion.
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Archaeology and religion. |
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Iconoclasm in art.
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Iconoclasm in art. |
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Assyro-Babylonian religion.
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Assyro-Babylonian religion. |
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Greece -- Religion.
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Greece. |
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Religion. |
Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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Added Author |
Groneberg, Brigitte.
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Spieckermann, Hermann.
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Other Form: |
Print version: Welt der Götterbilder. Berlin ; New York : Walter de Gruyter, 2007 9783110194630 3110194635 (OCoLC)154804471 |
ISBN |
9783110204155 (electronic book) |
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3110204150 (electronic book) |
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3110194635 |
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9783110194630 |
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