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Die "Zwei Körper des Königs" in den westsemitischen Kulturen : Ugarit, aramäische Königreiche, Phönizien, Ammon, Moab, Israel und Juda
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ISBN: 9783963270529 3963270527 Year: 2018 Publisher: Munster : Zaphon,

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Dagmar Kühn examines the Ancient Near Eastern and the Old Testament concept of kingship with reference to the concept of "The king's two bodies", established by the historian Ernst H. Kantorowicz regarding the European Middle Ages. According to this concept the king had both a mortal body and an immortal body, joint inseparable in his person. It was developed in Elizabethan Tudor Period to conceptualize am immortal person of the king (body politic) unaffected by imperfection, weakness and death of the natural person of the king (body natural). The West Semitic cultures developed various strategies of outfitting the body politic with insignia and images of representation to maintain and preserve the body politic when the body natural is threatened by crisis, death and disease. In Ugarit, this concept becomes apparent in the Epics of Kirta and Aqhatu with their human protagonists as well as in the Epic of Baal with its divine protagonists. The continuity of the royal dynasty and the welfare of the body natural depended on the blessing of the gods. The Ahirom sarcophagus from Byblos is the most obvious example of the concept of "The king's two bodies" in Phoenician realm. While the body of the king (body natural) was buried within the sarcophagus an en-throned effigy en relief symbolised the immortal body politic. The texts of the Old Testament bear witness of the knowledge of the Ancient Near Eastern ideology of kingship both in their eternal (body politic) and human components (body natural) and the ability to use them in theological conceptualizations. In particular, the Psalms and sapiential texts have preserved the ideal image of the king (body politic), who was considered the son of God after enthronement and could even be denoted as god with regard to his office.


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Über das Alte Testament hinaus : exegetische, religionsgeschichtliche und archäologische Beiträge : Festschrift für Herbert Niehr
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ISBN: 9783963272189 Year: 2023 Publisher: Münster : ©2023 Zaphon,

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Religion : deities and mythical characters
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ISBN: 9789042944176 Year: 2021 Publisher: Leuven Paris Bristol, CT Peeters

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The Encyclopaedic Dictionary of Phoenician Culture (EDPC) is the result of a wide-ranging international project and is intended to be an in-depth and up-to-date standard reference work for Phoenician studies. It is a series in the form of an encyclopaedia with the structure of a dictionary, comprising about 2000 entries, written by circa 200 contributors from 20 different countries. Current knowledge on Phoenicians and Carthaginians (with close attention to their various interactions with other cultures) will be presented as a sequence of themed volumes, all closely interrelated, dealing respectively with history, religion, language and written sources, socio-economic life, and archaeological sites of both the Levant and the Central and Western Mediterranean. As part of a collection, each volume should be considered as belonging to a set: in one sense independent but at the same time inseparable from the others both in respect of the amount of information included and the network of cross-references linking the various lemmata. The present volume (EDPC II.1), which is exclusively on deities and mythical characters, is a specialised compendium of the divine and mythological figures who feature in Phoenician and Punic documents as well as in indirect sources. Like the thematic volumes to follow, this volume is a reference work: it is based on a piece by piece reconstruction of the entire Phoenician and Punic 'religious' universe through its various protagonists. A second volume on religious practices - Cult and Ritual (EDPC II.2) - is in preparation, and the two volumes are to be considered as closely connected, as they examine this cultural dimension from different but intrinsically correlated and complementary points of view.

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