Women and Religion in the Ancient Near East and Asia

by: Brisch, N. Karahashi, F.

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About this book
The recent years have seen an upswing in studies of women in the ancient Near East and related areas. This volume, which is the result of a Danish-Japanese collaboration, seeks to highlight women as actors within the sphere of the religious. In ancient Mesopotamia and other ancient civilizations, religious beliefs and practices permeated all aspects of society, and for this reason it is not possible to completely dissociate religion from politics, economy, or literature. Thus, the goal is to shift the perspective by highlighting the different ways in which the agency of women can be traced in the historical (and archaeological) record. This perspectival shift can be seen in studies of elite women, who actively contributed to (religious) gift-giving or participated in temple economies, or through showing the limits of elite women?s agency in relation to diplomatic marriages. Additionally, several contributions examine the roles of women as religious officials and the language, worship, or invocation of goddesses. This volume does not aim at completeness but seeks to highlight points for further research and new perspectives.

Introduction

Nicole Brisch and Fumi Karahashi
Women?s History and Gender History in Japan

Yuko Matsumoto
PART I: BUSINESSWOMEN, EMPRESSES, AND ROYAL WOMEN
Socio-Economic Aspects and Agency of Female Maš-da-ri-a Contributors in Presargonic Lagash

Agnès Garcia-Ventura and Fumi Karahashi
The Role of Women in Assyrian Foreign Policy

Katsuji Sano
Women Involved in Daily Management in Achaemenid Babylonia: The Cases of Rē?indu and Andiya

Yoko Watai
Wu Zetian?s Buddhist Policy: A New Perspective

Huang Haijing
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

Nicole Brisch
Hittite Royal Ideology and the Uniqueness of the Priestess Titled NIN.DINGIR

Ada Taggar-Cohen
The Roles of Women in the Practice of Ancient Mesopotamian Divination

Ulla Koch
PART III: GODDESSES
Enheduana?s Invocations: Form and Force

Sophus Helle
On Language, Gender, Sex, and Style in the Sumerian Language

Piotr Michalowski
Venomous Scorpions and Venerable Women: The Relationship Between Scorpions, the Goddess Išḫara, and Queens in the Neo-Assyrian Period

Troels P. Arbøll
The Networks of Ashtart-Aphrodite and the Archaic Mediterranean Koiné

Carolina López-Ruiz
The Lioness Goddess Statuary from the Rock-Cut Chambers at Northwest Saqqara and Their Cult in Middle Kingdom Egypt

Nozomu Kawai
Index

Women and Religion in the Ancient Near East and Asia

by: Brisch, N. Karahashi, F.

• ISBN-13: 9781501518614 / 978-1-5015-1861-4
• ISBN-03: 1501518615 / 1-5015-1861-5
• Walter de Gruyter, Berlin, 2023

Price: 105,95 EURO

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