Religion in Ancient Mesopotamia

von Jean Bottéro

260 Seiten, Taschenbuch

Kurzbeschreibung des Verlags

One of the world's foremost experts on Assyriology, Jean Bottéro has studied the religion of ancient Mesopotamia for more than fifty years. Building on these many years of research, Bottéro here presents the definitive account of one of the world's oldest known religions. He shows how ancient Mesopotamian religion was practiced both in the public and private spheres, how it developed over the three millennia of its active existence, and how it profoundly influenced Western civilization, including the Hebrew Bible.

• ISBN: 9780226067186
• Sprache: Englisch
• Erscheinungsdatum: 01.09.2004
• Größe: 232 x 144 mm
• Verlag: University of Chicago Press
• Übersetzung: Teresa Lavender Fagan