Women and Religion in the Ancient near East and Asia /
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Boston :
Walter de Gruyter GmbH,
[2023]
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| 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.