In Remembrance of Me: Feasting with the Dead in the Ancient Middle East: 37 (Oriental Institute Museum Publications) - Softcover

 
9781614910176: In Remembrance of Me: Feasting with the Dead in the Ancient Middle East: 37 (Oriental Institute Museum Publications)
Softcover
ISBN 10: 1614910170 ISBN 13: 9781614910176
Verlag: Institute for the Study of Ancient Cultures, 2014

Inhaltsangabe

This Oriental Institute Museum exhibit catalog looks at how the living commemorated and cared for deceased ancestors in the ancient Middle East. The focus of the exhibit is the memorial monument (stele) of an official named Katumuwa (ca. 735 BC), discovered in 2008 by University of Chicago archaeologists at the site of Zincirli, Turkey. Part I of the catalog presents the most comprehensive collection of scholarship yet published on the interpretation of the Katumuwa Stele, an illuminating new document of ancestor cult and beliefs about the soul. In Part II, leading scholars describe the relationship between the living and the dead in Mesopotamia, Egypt, Anatolia, and the Levant (Syria-Palestine), providing a valuable introduction to the family and mortuary religion of the ancient Middle East. The fifty-seven objects cataloged highlight the role of food and drink offerings and stone effigies in maintaining a place for the dead in family life.

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Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

David Schloen is a faculty member in the Oriental Institute and the Department of Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations of the University of Chicago, where he is also an associated faculty member of the Divinity School. He specializes in the archaeology and history of the ancient Levant (Syria and Palestine) from ca. 3000 to 300 BCE.

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Verlag
Institute for the Study of Ancient Cultures
Erscheinungsdatum
2014
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
1614910170
ISBN 13 
9781614910176
Einband
Tapa blanda
Anzahl der Seiten
176
Herausgeber
Rimmer Herrmann Virginia, Schloen J. David
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