The Meaning of Sacred Names and Babylonian Scholarship: The Gula Hymn and Other Works

by Elizabeth A. Bennett

This book explores the remarkable ways by which Babylonian scholars in the second and first millennia BCE understood the names of their gods and goddesses and the places sacred to them in a wide spectrum of texts, ranging from explanatory lists to great religious works. Developing and expounding their religious thinking, these extraordinary scholars elucidated the meaning of sacred names, both obvious and hidden, by etymological and other means, using...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 3963271701
• ISBN13: 9783963271700
• Release Date: December 2021
• Publisher: Zaphon
• Length: 461 Pages
• Weight: 39.39 lbs.