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Titel:	What's in a divine name?
Titelzusatz:	religious systems and human agency in the ancient mediterranean
Mitwirkende:	Palamidis, Alaya [HerausgeberIn]
	Bonnet, Corinne [HerausgeberIn]
Verf.angabe:	edited by Alaya Palamidis and Corinne Bonnet ; with the collaboration of Julie Bernini, Enrique Nieto Izquierdo, and Lorena Pérez Yarza
Verlagsort:	Berlin ; Boston
Verlag:	De Gruyter
E-Jahr:	2024
Jahr:	[2024]
Umfang:	1 Online-Ressource
Schrift/Sprache:	In English
ISBN:	978-3-11-132651-1
	978-3-11-132756-3
Abstract:	Divine Names are a key component in the communication between humans and gods in Antiquity. Their complexity derives not only from the impressive number of onomastic elements available to describe and target specific divine powers, but also from their capacity to be combined within distinctive configurations of gods. The volume collects 36 essays pertaining to many different contexts - Egypt, Anatolia, Levant, Mesopotamia, Greece, Rome - which address the multiple functions and wide scope of divine onomastics. Scrutinized in a diachronic and comparative perspective, divine names shed light on how polytheisms and monotheisms work as complex systems of divine and human agents embedded in an historical framework. Names imply knowledge and play a decisive role in rituals; they move between cities and regions, and can be translated; they interact with images and reflect the intrinsic plurality of divine beings. This vivid exploration of divine names pays attention to the balance between tradition and innovation, flexibility and constraints, to the material and conceptual parameters of onomastic practices, to cross-cultural contexts and local idiosyncrasies, in a word to human strategies for shaping the gods through their names
DOI:	doi:10.1515/9783111326511
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	DOI: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783111326511
Schlagwörter:	(g)Mittelmeerraum    / (s)Altertum    / (s)Gottesname    / (s)Eigenschaft Gottes    / (s)Ritus    / (s)Polytheismus    / (s)Monotheismus    / (z)Geschichte
	(g)Mittelmeerraum    / (s)Altertum    / (s)Gottesname    / (s)Namenkunde    / (s)Interdisziplinäre Forschung    / (s)Kulturvergleich    / (s)Religionsvergleich
Datenträger:	Online-Ressource
Dokumenttyp:	Aufsatzsammlung
Sprache:	eng
Bibliogr. Hinweis:	Erscheint auch als : Druck-Ausgabe: What’s in a divine name?. - Berlin : De Gruyter, 2024. - XIX, 876 Seiten
	Erscheint auch als : print
Sach-SW:	HISTORY / Medieval
K10plus-PPN:	1883331226
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