Download or read book The Akitu Festival written by Julye Bidmead and published by . This book was released on 2014-04-21 with total page 235 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Chronicles and the Akitu Festival written by Albert Kirk Grayson and published by . This book was released on 1970 with total page 11 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Akit u Festival written by Julye Bidmead and published by Gorgias Press LLC. This book was released on 2002 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Using tools of social anthropology, this book describes the ancient Babylonian akntu, or New Year festival. It reconstructs the festival and its customs.
Download or read book The Ak tu Festival written by Julye Bidmead and published by Gorgias PressLlc. This book was released on 2004 with total page 220 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Religious ritual is embedded with socio-political ideologies. Nowhere is this more apparent than in the ancient Babylonian akitu or New Year festival. The akitu festival is one of the oldest recorded religious festivals in the world, celebrated for several millennia throughout ancient Mesopotamia. Yet, the akitu was more than just a religious ceremony - it acted as a political device employed by the monarchy and/or the central priesthood to ensure the supremacy of the king, the national god, and his capital city. Using tools of social anthropology and ritual analysis, this book presents a detailed reconstruction of the festival events and its attendant rituals to demonstrate how the akitu festival became a propagandistic tool wielded by the monarchy and ruling class to promote state ideology. The akitu festival demonstrates the effectiveness of religion as a political tool.
Download or read book The Babylonian Ak tu Festival written by Svend Aage Frederik Dichmann Pallis and published by . This book was released on 1926 with total page 538 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Assyrian and Babylonian Chronicles written by Albert Kirk Grayson and published by Eisenbrauns. This book was released on 2000 with total page 350 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Originally published: Locust Valley, N.Y.: J. J. Augustin, 1975.
Download or read book Ritual written by Catherine Bell and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2009 with total page 372 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From handshakes and toasts to chant and genuflection, ritual pervades our social interactions and religious practices. Still, few of us could identify all of our daily and festal ritual behaviors, much less explain them to an outsider. Similarly, because of the variety of activities that qualify as ritual and their many contradictory yet, in many ways, equally legitimate interpretations, ritual seems to elude any systematic historical and comparative scrutiny. In this book, Catherine Bell offers a practical introduction to ritual practice and its study; she surveys the most influential theories of religion and ritual, the major categories of ritual activity, and the key debates that have shaped our understanding of ritualism. Bell refuses to nail down ritual with any one definition or understanding. Instead, her purpose is to reveal how definitions emerge and evolve and to help us become more familiar with the interplay of tradition, exigency, and self-expression that goes into constructing this complex social medium.
Download or read book The Babylonian Akitu Festival written by Svend A. Pallis and published by . This book was released on 1990-06-01 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Babylonian Ak tu Festival written by Svend Aage Pallis and published by . This book was released on 1926 with total page 307 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Religions of the Ancient World written by Sarah Iles Johnston and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2004-11-30 with total page 750 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This groundbreaking, first basic reference work on ancient religious beliefs collects and organizes available information on ten ancient cultures and traditions, including Greece, Rome, and Mesopotamia, and offers an expansive, comparative perspective on each one.
Download or read book Ritual written by Catherine M. Bell and published by . This book was released on 1997 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Catherine Bell provides a practical introduction to ritual and its study with comprehensive overviews of the most influential theories of religion and ritual. The book examines the major categories of ritual activity.
Download or read book Origin and Transformation of the Ancient Israelite Festival Calendar written by Jan A. Wagenaar and published by Otto Harrassowitz Verlag. This book was released on 2005 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The book focusses on the origin and transformation of the priestly festival calendar. Since the epoch-making work of Julius Wellhausen at the end of the 19th century the differences between the various ancient Israelite festival calendars have often been explained in terms of a gradual evolution, which shows an increasing historicisation, denaturalisation and ritualisation. The festivals were in Wellhausen's view gradually detached from agricultural conditions and celebrated more and more at fixed points in the year. This study tries to show that the changes in the priestly festival calendar reflect a conscious effort to adapt the ancient Israelite festival calendar to the semi-annual layout of the Babylonian festival year. The ramifications of the change only come to the fore after a careful study of the agricultural conditions of ancient Israel - and Mesopotamia - makes clear that passover and the festival of unleavened bread were originally celebrated in the second month of the year. The first month of the year envisaged by the priestly festival calendar for the celebration of passover and the festival of unleavened bread in turn mirrors the date of one of the two semi-annual Babylonian New Year festivals. The two Babylonian New Year festivals were celebrated exactly six months apart at the vernal and autumnal equinoxes. In order to adapt the ancient Israelite festival calendar to the Babylonian scheme with two New Year festivals a year, the date of passover and the festival of unleavened bread had to be moved up by one month. The consequences for the origin of passover, the festival of unleavened bread, the festival of weeks and the festival of huts are charted and the relations between the various ancient Israelite festival calendars are determined anew.
Download or read book The Babylonian Akitu Festival written by Pallis S.A. and published by . This book was released on 1926 with total page 306 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book An Introduction to Ancient Mesopotamian Religion written by Tammi J. Schneider and published by Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing. This book was released on 2011-06 with total page 157 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A fascinating look at ancient Middle Eastern religious belief and practice
Download or read book The Babylonian Akitu Festival written by Svend Aage Frederik Dichmann Pallis and published by . This book was released on 1926 with total page 306 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Jewish New Year Festival written by Norman H. Snaith and published by Wipf and Stock Publishers. This book was released on 2016-08-11 with total page 231 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "This study has its origin in a twenty-year-old interest in Sigmund Mowinckel's theory of an annual new year Coronation Feast of Jehovah in Israel. The first outcome of this interest was a volume entitled Studies in the Psalter (1934) in which I endeavored to show that the psalms which Mowinckel associated most closely with this supposed Coronation Feast were actually post-exilic, and in any case were Sabbath psalms. It is impossible, if my thesis is sound, that these psalms could ever have been and the apparatus of a pre-exilic feast of the type which Mowinckel proposed." --From the Preface
Download or read book The Babylonian Ak tu Festival written by Svend Aage Frederik Dichmann Pallis and published by . This book was released on 1926 with total page 306 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
