Sacred marriages : the divine-human sexual metaphor from sumer to early christianity /
Martti Nissinen and Risto Uro.
- 543 páginas : ilustraciones ; 24 centímetros
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Sacred marriages, or the Divine-human sexual metaphor: introducing the project -- The sumerian sacred marriage and its aftermath in later sources -- Sacred marriage and the transfer of divine knowledge: alliances between the gods and the king in ancient mesopotamia -- Sacred marriage and the devotees of istar -- Sacred marriage in the ugaritic texts? The case of KTU/CAT 1.23(rituals and myths of the goodly gods) -- Sacred marriage in the new kingdom of ancient egypt: circumstantial evidence for a ritual interpretation -- Hieros gamos in ancient greek religion: the human aspect of a sacralized ritual -- Song of songs and sacred marriage -- Yahweh`s broken marriages as metaphoric vehicle in the hebrew bible prophets -- The love triangle of lady wisdom: sacred marriage in jewish wisdom literature? -- The sons of god and the daughters of men -- Divine-human marriage matrix and constructions of gender and "bodies" in the christian bible -- Sacred prostitution in the biblical world? -- Begotten by the Holy Spirit -- from the bridegroom`s time to the wedding of the lamb: nuptial imagery in the canonical gospels and the book of revelation -- The bride of Christ (Ephesians 5:22-33): A problematic wedding -- Sex and the single savior -- Divine desires: fantasy and renunciation in the narrative of mark`s gospel -- Asceticism as a sacred marriage: an essay on eastern and western theories -- The bridal chamber and other mysteries: ritual system and ritual transmission in the valentinian movement -- Sacred marriage and spiritual knowledge: relations between carnality and salvation in the apocryphon.