Women and religion in the ancient Near East and Asia / edited by Nicole Brisch and Fumi Karahashi.

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, re...

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Uniform Title:Studies in ancient Near Eastern records ; 30.
Other Authors: Brisch, Nicole Maria (Editor)
Karahashi, Fumi (Editor)
Language:English
Published: Boston : De Gruyter, 2023.
Series:Studies in ancient Near Eastern records ; 30.
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Physical Description:x, 346 pages : illustrations (some color), black-and-white plans ; 23 cm.
Format: Book

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505 0 0 |t Introduction /  |r Nicole Brish and Fumi Karahashi --  |t Women's History and Gender History in Japan /  |r Yuko Matsumoto.  |g Part I.  |t Businesswomen, Empresses, and Royal Women.  |t Socio-Economic Aspects and Agency of Female Maš-da-ri-a Contributors in Presargonic Lagash /  |r Agnès Garcia-Ventura and Fumi Karahashi --  |t The Role of Women in Assyrian Foreign Policy /  |r Katsuji Sani --  |t Women Involved in Daily Management in Achaemenid Babylonia: The Cases of Rē'indu and Andiya /  |r Yoko Watai --  |t Wu Zetian's Buddhist Policy: A New Perspective /  |r Huang Haijing.  |g Part II.  |t Priestesses.  |t The Office and Responsibilities of the En Priestess of Nanna: Evidence from Votive Inscriptions and Documentary Texts /  |r Seraine Nett --  |t High Priestesses in Old Babylonian Nippur: The NIN and NIN-dingir Priestesses of Ninurta /  |r Nicole Brisch --  |t Hittite Royal Ideology and the Uniqueness of the Priestess Titled NIN.DINGIR /  |r Ada Taggar-Cohen --  |t The Roles of Women in the Practice of Ancient Mesopotamian Divination /  |r Ulla Koch.  |g Part III.  |t Goddesses.  |t Enheduana's Invocations: Form and Force /  |r Sophus Helle --  |t On Language, Gender, Sex, and Style in the Sumerian Language /  |r Piotr Michalowski -- Venomous Scorpions and Venerable Women: The Relationship Between Scorpions, the Goddess Išḫara, and Queens in the Neo-Assyrian Period /  |r Troels P. Arbøll --  |t The Networks of Ashtart-Aphrodite and the Archaic Mediterranean Koiné /  |r Carolina López-Ruiz --  |t The Lioness Goddess Statuary from the Rock-Cut Chambers at Northwest Saqqara and Their Cult in Middel Kingdom Egypt /  |r Nozomu Kawai. 
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