Incomplete Ištar Assimilation: Reconsidering the Goddess’s Divine History in Light of a Madonnine Analogy

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter I
2. Contents V
3. Abbreviations XI
4. Introduction. What Does a Divine Name Do? 1
5. Part 1: Ritual Names: Communication with the Divine and Human Agency
6. Introduction 35
7. Writing Divine Names in Ritual Practices of Ancient Mesopotamia 41
8. Divine Naming in Greek and Chinese Polytheism 59
9. Divine Names in Ritual Settings in the Dead Sea Scrolls 79
10. Strategies for Naming the Gods in Greek Hymns 99
11. Divine Names and Naming the Divine in Livy 121
12. Part 2: One and Many: Onomastic Bricolage
13. Introduction 141
14. Incomplete Ištar Assimilation: Reconsidering the Goddess’s Divine History in Light of a Madonnine Analogy 147
15. The Many Faces of Hadad in Aramaean Syria and Anatolia (1^st Mill. BCE). Three Case Studies on Hadad at Sikāni, Samʾal, and Damascus 167
16. Demeter as Thesmophoros: What Does She Bring Forth? 185
17. The Onomastic Attributes of Greek Healing Deities 205
18. Part 3: Names and Images
19. Introduction 239
20. What Do Attributes Say About Apollo? 249
21. Gods’ Names – Gods’ Images. Dedications and Communication Process in Sanctuaries 271
22. Epithets and Iconographic Attributes of Kubaba in Syro-Anatolian Iron Age Sources 299
23. How to Create a God: The Name and Iconography of the Deified Deceased Piyris at Ayn El-Labakha (Kharga Oasis, Egypt) 325
24. Part 4: Plural Divine Configurations, “Pantheons”and Divine Sovereignty
25. Introduction 361
26. In Search of God Baal in Phoenician and Cypriot Epigraphy (First Millennium BCE) 365
27. Zeus hupatos kreionton: A Comparative Study on Divine Sovereignty, Between Attica and Syria 391
28. Divine Configurations and “Pantheons”: Some Assemblages of Theoi in North-Western Greece 413
29. The Carian Stratonicea’s Exception: Two Equal Megistoi Theoi as Divine Patrons in the Roman Period 435
30. Part 5: Human Names, Divine Names
31. Introduction 465
32. In the Name of Gods. In Search of Divine Epithets Through Luwic Personal Names 471
33. Who’s in a Name? Human-Divine Relations in Personal Names from the Tophet of Carthage 489
34. Theophoric Aramaic Personal Names as Onomastic Sequences in Diasporic and Cosmopolitan Communities 511
35. Christian Contexts, Non-Christian Names: Onomastic Mobility and Transmission in Late Antique Syria 531
36. Human Honours and Divine Attributes 551
37. Call Me by God’s Name. Onomaturgy in Three Early Christian Texts 569
38. Part 6: Names and Knowledge
39. Introduction 585
40. The Names of Greek Gods. Divine Signs or Human Creations? 591
41. “If by This Name it Pleases Him to be Invoked”: Ancient Etymology and Greek Polytheism 621
42. The All-Encompassing Name: Multilingualism, Myth and Materiality in a Late Greek Papyrus of Ritual Power (PGM XIII) 641
43. Yahweh’s Divine “Names”. Changing Configurations in the Hebrew Bible and Ancient Israel 667
44. The Lord of Spirits in the Book of Parables of Enoch from a Levantine Point of View 689
45. Part 7: Mobility, Transmission, Translation
46. Introduction 707
47. Interpretatio Among Levantines in Hellenistic Egypt 713
48. Divine Names, Heavenly Bodies, and Human Visions: The Septuagint and the Transformation of Ancient Israelite Religion 735
49. Divine Names and Bilingualism in Rome: Religious Dynamics in Multilingual Spaces 759
50. Apollo Delphinios – Again 781
51. Cross-Cultural Pilgrimage and Religious Change: Translation, Filial Cults, and Networks 801
52. Postface
53. Postface 827
54. Some Thoughts on the Origins of the Divine and Interaction with Divinity in the Ancient Near East 829
55. Naming the Gods between Immanence and Transcendence in Greco-Roman Polytheisms 843
56. Index Nominum 849
57. People 861
58. Places 865
59. Topics 871