Objects, Qualities, and Attributes as Deities in the Ancient Near East

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Objects, Qualities, and Attributes as Deities in the Ancient Near East is written by Jennifer Singletary and published by BRILL. It's available with International Standard Book Number or ISBN identification 9004733167 (ISBN 10) and 9789004733169 (ISBN 13).

This book analyzes examples of objects, qualities, and attributes treated as deities in ancient Near Eastern texts spanning the second and first millennia BCE. Specifically, this cross-cultural study examines attestations of this phenomenon in texts from Mesopotamia, Ebla, Alalakh, Emar, and Ugarit, as well as first millennium inscriptions, Aramaic texts from Egypt, and the Hebrew Bible. Through the application of recent research in cognitive science of religion and prototype theory, the book concludes that these types of deities are natural products of the human mind.