Religion, Nature, and Ambiguous Space in Ancient Mesopotamia: The Mountain Wilderness in Old Babylonian Religious Narratives.
This article discusses the nexus of religion and nature by means of an investigation of the mountain wilderness space in ancient Mesopotamia. Drawing inspiration from theories of social space and the field of religion and nature, it pays special attention to the mediality of the sources embedding th...
| Publicado en: | Numen: International Review for the History of Religions Vol. 63; no. 4; pp. 347 - 383 |
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Brill Academic Publishers
2016
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