Description
A well written guide to Mesopotamian religion by one of the world's foremost Assyriologists. Bottero studies the public and private relationships between the people and the divine, their cosmology, hymns and prayers, rituals, myths and magic.
Author: Jean Bottéro
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Published: 09/01/2004
Pages: 260
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.80lbs
Size: 9.14h x 5.66w x 0.64d
ISBN13: 9780226067186
ISBN10: 0226067181
BISAC Categories:
- Religion | History
- History | Ancient | General
- History | Middle East | General
Author: Jean Bottéro
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Published: 09/01/2004
Pages: 260
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.80lbs
Size: 9.14h x 5.66w x 0.64d
ISBN13: 9780226067186
ISBN10: 0226067181
BISAC Categories:
- Religion | History
- History | Ancient | General
- History | Middle East | General
About the Author
Jean Bottéro is the emeritus director of l'École Pratique des Hautes Études, quatrième section, Paris. He is the author of The Oldest Cuisine in the World: Cooking in Mesopotamia; Mesopotamia: Writing, Reasoning, and the Gods, and coauthor of Ancestor of the West: Writing, Reasoning, and Religion in the Ancient Near East, all published by the University of Chicago Press. Teresa Lavender Fagan has translated more than a dozen books for the University of Chicago Press.