{"product_id":"born-in-heaven-made-on-earth-the-making-of-the-cult-image-in-the-ancient-near-east-9781575060248","title":"Born in Heaven, Made on Earth: The Making of the Cult Image in the Ancient Near East","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003ePejoratively referred to as \"idols\" in the Hebrew Bible and in western tradition, the cult image occupied a central place in the cultures of the ancient Near East. In Mesopotamia, a ritual (mis pi) was used to \"give birth\" to the god represented by the cult image. In this volume, three separate essays examine the topic within different ancient Near Eastern cultures, and a fourth provides a modern analogy as counterpoint.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"This is an interesting, most welcome collection. It is a major contribution, providing a much-needed, interdisciplinary (philological and anthropological) study of a long-neglected, maligned topic that by its very nature demands use of comparative material...this long-overdue book is an enlightening, fascinating, and significant step towards understanding cult statues as perceived by their proponents and opponents.\"--Victor Avigdor Hurowitz, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev in Journal of the American Oriental Society(121.3, 2001)\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eMichael B. Dick, ‘Prophetic Parodies of Making the Cult Image’\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChristopher Walker and Michael B. Dick, ‘The Induction of the Cult Image in Ancient Mesopotamia: The Mesopotamian mis pi Ritual’\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eDavid Lorton, ‘The Theology of Cult Statues in Ancient Egypt’\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eJoanne Punzo Waghorne, ‘The Divine Image in Contemporary South India: The Renaissance of a Once Maligned Tradition’\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Pennsylvania State University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53188730257751,"sku":"9781575060248","price":51.95,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/born-in-heaven-made-on-earth-the-making-of-the-cult-image-in-the-ancient-near-east-9781575060248","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}