Secrecy and the Gods: Secret Knowledge in Ancient Mesopotamia and Biblical Israel.
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Secrecy and the Gods is a comparative mythological study of the human reception and treatment of divine secret knowledge in ancient Mesopotamia and biblical Israel. The human royal council was the social model for ancient ideas about divine knowledge being secret - just as human kings had secrets so too did the gods. Diviners who received this knowledge from the gods in an on-going, ad hoc manner were an essential link between the...
Format:Paperback
Language:English
ISBN:9521013303
ISBN13:9789521013300
Release Date:June 2008
Publisher:Neo-Assyrian Text Corpus Project
Length:480 Pages
Weight:2.24 lbs.
Dimensions:0.9" x 6.8" x 9.8"
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