The triumph of the symbol: pictorial representation of deities in Mesopotamia and the biblical image ban
This book analyzes the history of Mesopotamian imagery form the mid-second to mid-first millennium BCE. It demonstrates that in spite of rich textual evidence, which grants the Mesopotamian gods and goddesses an anthropmorphic form, there was a clear abstention in various media from visualizing the...
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| Zusammenfassung: | This book analyzes the history of Mesopotamian imagery form the mid-second to mid-first millennium BCE. It demonstrates that in spite of rich textual evidence, which grants the Mesopotamian gods and goddesses an anthropmorphic form, there was a clear abstention in various media from visualizing the gods in such a form. True, divine human-shaped cultic images existed in Mesopotamian temples. But as a rule, non-anthropomorphic visual agents such as inanimate objects, animals or fantastic hybrids replaced these figures when they were portrayed outside of their sacred enclosures. This tendency reached its peak in first-millennium Babylonia and Assyria. The removal of the Mesopotamian human-shaped deity from pictorial renderings resembles the Biblical agenda not only in its avoidance of displaying a divine image but also in the implied dual perception of the divine: according to the Bible and the Assyro-Babylonian concept the divine was conceived as having a human form; yet in both cases anthropomorphism was also concealed or rejected, though to a different degree. In the present book, this dual approach toward the divine image is considered as a reflection of two associated rather than contradictory religious worldviews. The plausible consolidation of the relevant Biblical accounts just before the Babylonian Exile, or more probably within the Exile - in both cases during a period of strong Assyrian and Babylonian hegemony - points to a direct correspondence between comparable religious phenomena. It is suggested that far from their homeland and in the absence of a temple for their god, the Judahite deportees adopted and intensified the Mesopotamian avoidance of anthropomorphic picorial portrayals of deities. While the Babylonian representations remained confined to temples, the exiles would have turned a cultic reality - i.e., the nonwritten Babylonian custom - into a written, articulated law that explicity forbade the pictorial representation of God. |
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CONTENTS
Acknowledgements x
Selected List of Kings
Introduction
Chapter
Representations of Deities in Second-Millennium
Mesopotamia
1.1.
Monuments
1.2.
Cylinder Seals
1.3.
Monuments and Stone Vessels
1.4.
Cylinder Seals
Chapter
Representations of Deities in Second-Millennium
Mesopotamia
2.1.
Old Babylonian, Anatolian, Syrian and Mitannian
Glyptic Art
2.2.
Babylonian Monuments
2.3.
Babylonian Cylinder Seals
2.4.
Monuments
2.5.
Cylinder Seals
Chapter
Representations of Deities in First-Millennium
Babylonia
3.1.
Babylonian Monuments
3.2.
Babylonian Glyptics
VI
Chapter
Representations of Deities in First-Millennium
Assyria
4.1.
Assyrian Monuments
4.1.1.
Syrian Inspiration
75
4.1.2.
Anthropomorphic Deities under Sennacherib
80
4.1.3.
Anthropomorphic Deities on Wall Reliefs
87
4.2.
Anthropomorphic Deities in First-Millennium
98
Assyrian Glyptics
Chapter
Outside the Temple: Non-Anthropomorphic
109
Representations of Deities in First-Millennium
Babylonia
5.1.
Non-
109
Babylonian Monuments
5.2.
Non-
115
Babylonian Glyptics
5.2.1.
Selected Divine Symbols in Babylonian Glyptics
119
5.2.1.1.
Spade, Stylus and
120
5.2.1.2.
The Dog
121
5.2.1.3.
The Lamp
121
5.2.1.4.
Scorpion Hybrids
123
5.2.1.5.
The Goat-Fish, the Ram-headed Sceptre and the
125
Merman Fish Hybrid
5.2.1.6.
The Lion-Dragon
127
5.2.1.7.
The Fish-apkallu
128
5.2.1.8.
Crossed Beasts
129
5.2.2.
Divine Symbols in kudurrus and in Glyptic Art
130
Chapter
Beholder: Non-Anthropomorphic
Representations of Deities in First-Millennium
Assyria
6.1.
Assyrian Monuments
6.1.1.
6.1.2.
6.1.3.
Vil
6.2.
Assyrian Glyptics
6.2.1.
6.2.1.1.
6.2.1.2.
6.2.
6.2.
6.2.
6.2.
6.2.
.3.
.4.
.5.
.6.
.7.
6.2.1.8.
Chapter
Anthropomorphic Portrayal of Deities in
Mesopotamia and the Biblical Image Ban
Abbreviations 1OO
Ioj
Bibliography ]84
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| spelling | Ornan, Tallay Verfasser (DE-588)130276634 aut The triumph of the symbol pictorial representation of deities in Mesopotamia and the biblical image ban Tallay Ornan Fribourg Academic Press [u.a.] 2005 XII, 284 Seiten Illustrationen 235 mm x 160 mm txt rdacontent n rdamedia nc rdacarrier Orbis Biblicus et Orientalis 213 This book analyzes the history of Mesopotamian imagery form the mid-second to mid-first millennium BCE. It demonstrates that in spite of rich textual evidence, which grants the Mesopotamian gods and goddesses an anthropmorphic form, there was a clear abstention in various media from visualizing the gods in such a form. True, divine human-shaped cultic images existed in Mesopotamian temples. But as a rule, non-anthropomorphic visual agents such as inanimate objects, animals or fantastic hybrids replaced these figures when they were portrayed outside of their sacred enclosures. This tendency reached its peak in first-millennium Babylonia and Assyria. The removal of the Mesopotamian human-shaped deity from pictorial renderings resembles the Biblical agenda not only in its avoidance of displaying a divine image but also in the implied dual perception of the divine: according to the Bible and the Assyro-Babylonian concept the divine was conceived as having a human form; yet in both cases anthropomorphism was also concealed or rejected, though to a different degree. In the present book, this dual approach toward the divine image is considered as a reflection of two associated rather than contradictory religious worldviews. The plausible consolidation of the relevant Biblical accounts just before the Babylonian Exile, or more probably within the Exile - in both cases during a period of strong Assyrian and Babylonian hegemony - points to a direct correspondence between comparable religious phenomena. It is suggested that far from their homeland and in the absence of a temple for their god, the Judahite deportees adopted and intensified the Mesopotamian avoidance of anthropomorphic picorial portrayals of deities. While the Babylonian representations remained confined to temples, the exiles would have turned a cultic reality - i.e., the nonwritten Babylonian custom - into a written, articulated law that explicity forbade the pictorial representation of God. Bibel Altes Testament (DE-588)4001515-4 gnd rswk-swf Bilderverbot (DE-588)4139569-4 gnd rswk-swf Geschichte 1400 v. Chr.- 500 v. Chr. gnd rswk-swf Beeldverbod gtt Dieux assyro-babyloniens Godsvoorstellingen gtt Oude Testament gtt Signes et symboles - Babylonie Signes et symboles - Syrie Bibel. Altes Testament Gods, Assyro-Babylonian Signs and symbols Assyria Signs and symbols Iraq Babylonia Gottesdarstellung (DE-588)4124919-7 gnd rswk-swf Irak Mesopotamien (DE-588)4038788-4 gnd rswk-swf Mesopotamien (DE-588)4038788-4 g Gottesdarstellung (DE-588)4124919-7 s Geschichte 1400 v. Chr.- 500 v. Chr. z Bilderverbot (DE-588)4139569-4 u Bibel Altes Testament (DE-588)4001515-4 u DE-604 Orbis Biblicus et Orientalis 213 (DE-604)BV000001219 213 text/html http://deposit.dnb.de/cgi-bin/dokserv?id=2649727&prov=M&dok_var=1&dok_ext=htm Inhaltstext Digitalisierung UB Regensburg application/pdf http://bvbr.bib-bvb.de:8991/F?func=service&doc_library=BVB01&local_base=BVB01&doc_number=013216457&sequence=000002&line_number=0001&func_code=DB_RECORDS&service_type=MEDIA Inhaltsverzeichnis |
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| title | The triumph of the symbol pictorial representation of deities in Mesopotamia and the biblical image ban |
| title_auth | The triumph of the symbol pictorial representation of deities in Mesopotamia and the biblical image ban |
| title_exact_search | The triumph of the symbol pictorial representation of deities in Mesopotamia and the biblical image ban |
| title_full | The triumph of the symbol pictorial representation of deities in Mesopotamia and the biblical image ban Tallay Ornan |
| title_fullStr | The triumph of the symbol pictorial representation of deities in Mesopotamia and the biblical image ban Tallay Ornan |
| title_full_unstemmed | The triumph of the symbol pictorial representation of deities in Mesopotamia and the biblical image ban Tallay Ornan |
| title_short | The triumph of the symbol |
| title_sort | the triumph of the symbol pictorial representation of deities in mesopotamia and the biblical image ban |
| title_sub | pictorial representation of deities in Mesopotamia and the biblical image ban |
| topic | Bibel Altes Testament (DE-588)4001515-4 gnd Bilderverbot (DE-588)4139569-4 gnd Beeldverbod gtt Dieux assyro-babyloniens Godsvoorstellingen gtt Oude Testament gtt Signes et symboles - Babylonie Signes et symboles - Syrie Bibel. Altes Testament Gods, Assyro-Babylonian Signs and symbols Assyria Signs and symbols Iraq Babylonia Gottesdarstellung (DE-588)4124919-7 gnd |
| topic_facet | Bibel Altes Testament Bilderverbot Beeldverbod Dieux assyro-babyloniens Godsvoorstellingen Oude Testament Signes et symboles - Babylonie Signes et symboles - Syrie Bibel. Altes Testament Gods, Assyro-Babylonian Signs and symbols Assyria Signs and symbols Iraq Babylonia Gottesdarstellung Irak Mesopotamien |
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