Women and Religion in the Ancient near East and Asia /

Bibliographic Details
Corporate Author: EBSCOhost
Other Authors: Brisch, Nicole Maria (Editor), Karahashi, Fumi (Editor)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Boston : Walter de Gruyter GmbH, [2023]
Series:Studies in ancient Near Eastern records ; v. 30.
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Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book
Table of Contents:
  • Intro
  • Foreword and Acknowledgements
  • Contents
  • Introduction
  • Women's History and Gender History in Japan
  • Part I: Businesswomen, Empresses, and Royal Women
  • Socio-Economic Aspects and Agency of Female Maš-da-ri-a Contributors in Presargonic Lagash
  • The Role of Women in Assyrian Foreign Policy
  • Women Involved in Daily Management in Achaemenid Babylonia: The Cases of Rē'indu and Andiya
  • Wu Zetian's Buddhist Policy: A New Perspective
  • Part II: Priestesses
  • The Office and Responsibilities of the En Priestess of Nanna: Evidence from Votive Inscriptions and Documentary Texts
  • High Priestesses in Old Babylonian Nippur: The NIN and NIN-dingir Priestesses of Ninurta
  • Hittite Royal Ideology and the Uniqueness of the Priestess Titled NIN.DINGIR
  • The Roles of Women in the Practice of Ancient Mesopotamian Divination
  • Part III: Goddesses
  • Enheduana's Invocations: Form and Force
  • On Language, Gender, Sex, and Style in the Sumerian Language
  • Venomous Scorpions and Venerable Women: The Relationship Between Scorpions, the Goddess Išhara, and Queens in the Neo-Assyrian Period
  • The Networks of Ashtart-Aphrodite and the Archaic Mediterranean Koiné
  • The Lioness Goddess Statuary from the Rock-Cut Chambers at Northwest Saqqara and Their Cult in Middle Kingdom Egypt
  • Index.