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Frontmatter -- Contents -- Abbreviations -- Introduction. What Does a Divine Name Do? -- Part 1: Ritual Names: Communication with the Divine and Human Agency -- Introduction -- Writing Divine Names in Ritual Practices of Ancient Mesopotamia -- Divine Naming in Greek and Chinese Polytheism -- Divine Names in Ritual Settings in the Dead Sea Scrolls -- Strategies for Naming the Gods in Greek Hymns -- Divine Names and Naming the Divine in Livy -- Part 2: One and Many: Onomastic Bricolage -- Introduction -- Incomplete Ištar Assimilation: Reconsidering the Goddess's Divine History in Light of a Madonnine Analogy -- The Many Faces of Hadad in Aramaean Syria and Anatolia (1st Mill. BCE). Three Case Studies on Hadad at Sikāni, Samʾal, and Damascus -- Demeter as Thesmophoros: What Does She Bring Forth? -- The Onomastic Attributes of Greek Healing Deities -- Part 3: Names and Images -- Introduction -- What Do Attributes Say About Apollo? -- Gods' Names - Gods' Images. Dedications and Communication Process in Sanctuaries -- Epithets and Iconographic Attributes of Kubaba in Syro-Anatolian Iron Age Sources -- How to Create a God: The Name and Iconography of the Deified Deceased Piyris at Ayn El-Labakha (Kharga Oasis, Egypt) -- Part 4: Plural Divine Configurations, "Pantheons"and Divine Sovereignty -- Introduction -- In Search of God Baal in Phoenician and Cypriot Epigraphy (First Millennium BCE) -- Zeus hupatos kreionton: A Comparative Study on Divine Sovereignty, Between Attica and Syria -- Divine Configurations and "Pantheons": Some Assemblages of Theoi in North-Western Greece -- The Carian Stratonicea's Exception: Two Equal Megistoi Theoi as Divine Patrons in the Roman Period -- Part 5: Human Names, Divine Names -- Introduction -- In the Name of Gods. In Search of Divine Epithets Through Luwic Personal Names -- Who's in a Name? Human-Divine Relations in Personal Names from the Tophet of Carthage -- Theophoric Aramaic Personal Names as Onomastic Sequences in Diasporic and Cosmopolitan Communities -- Christian Contexts, Non-Christian Names: Onomastic Mobility and Transmission in Late Antique Syria -- Human Honours and Divine Attributes -- Call Me by God's Name. Onomaturgy in Three Early Christian Texts -- Part 6: Names and Knowledge -- Introduction -- The Names of Greek Gods. Divine Signs or Human Creations? -- "If by This Name it Pleases Him to be Invoked": Ancient Etymology and Greek Polytheism -- The All-Encompassing Name: Multilingualism, Myth and Materiality in a Late Greek Papyrus of Ritual Power (PGM XIII) -- Yahweh's Divine "Names". Changing Configurations in the Hebrew Bible and Ancient Israel -- The Lord of Spirits in the Book of Parables of Enoch from a Levantine Point of View -- Part 7: Mobility, Transmission, Translation -- Introduction -- Interpretatio Among Levantines in Hellenistic Egypt -- Divine Names, Heavenly Bodies, and Human Visions: The Septuagint and the Transformation of Ancient Israelite Religion -- Divine Names and Bilingualism in Rome: Religious Dynamics in Multilingual Spaces -- Apollo Delphinios - Again -- Cross-Cultural Pilgrimage and Religious Change: Translation, Filial Cults, and Networks -- Postface -- Postface -- Some Thoughts on the Origins of the Divine and Interaction with Divinity in the Ancient Near East -- Naming the Gods between Immanence and Transcendence in Greco-Roman Polytheisms -- Index Nominum -- People -- Places -- Topics
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What's in a Divine Name? : Religious Systems and Human Agency in the Ancient Mediterranean / / ed. by Alaya Palamidis, Corinne Bonnet
