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Book SynopsisEmilie Kutash is Lecturer at Salem State University and Endicott College, USA.
Trade ReviewThis book is powerful and engaging. Its range of expertise is striking, not only in relation to primary texts and archaeological findings, but also in its understanding and presentation of the complex secondary literature. Its ability to bring archaeological evidence, history, politics, religion, and theology into mutual conversation is compelling and its capacity to evaluate such evidence in a fair and balanced way is attractive throughout. * Kevin Corrigan, Professor of Interdisciplinary Humanities, Emory University, USA *
Emilie Kutash has composed, with passion and erudition, a cultural portrait of female divinity in the civilizations of the ancient Mediterranean throughout the ages. * Svetla Slaveva-Griffin, Associate Professor in Classics, Florida State University, USA *
Table of Contents1. Introduction: “To Whom Death Never Comes” 2. Goddess Prototypes: The Classical Literature 3. The Goddesses of Philosophy: The Literature of Later Antiquity 4. Mother, Virgin, Erotic Temptress, and Cosmic Womb 5. Dualism and the Mediating Goddess 6. “The Goddess of the Triple Ways”: Triads and Trinities 7. Naming the goddesses Geopolitics and the Intertanslsation of names 8. Asherah, Sophia, Shechinah: Are they Hebrew Goddesses? 9. Did Christianity Make the Goddess Disappear? 10. Personifying Nature and Wisdom: The Medieval and Early Modern Goddess 11. Goddesses, Gender Binaries and Twentieth Century Feminists, Psychoanalysts, Epistemologists 13. The Goddess Interpreted Bibliography Index
