Temple / Sacred Prostitution in Ancient Mesopotamia Revisited. Religion in the Economy
@inproceedings{Silver2006TempleS, title={Temple / Sacred Prostitution in Ancient Mesopotamia Revisited. Religion in the Economy}, author={Morris Silver}, year={2006} }
In Ugarit-Forschungen 30 and elsewhere, Assante vigorously argues on behalf of three striking and rather novel propositions: (1) There is no Sumerian or Akkadian word meaning “prostitute / sex professional” ; (2) Evidence for Mesopotamian prostitution adduced by “patriarchally” oriented scholars actually refers to the sexual activity of “single women / women without a husband”; (3) There is no evidence for “sacred” prostitution in Mesopotamia. The present paper reconsiders the evidence within…
3 Citations
The qdesha in Hosea 4:14: Putting the (Myth of the) Sacred Prostitute to Bed
- Sociology
- 2018
Despite a lack of evidence for the practice of sacred prostitution in the ancient Middle East, scholars have continued to understand the word qdesɔ in Hosea 4:14 to denote a female officiant who…
Women's Writing of Ancient Mesopotamia: An Anthology of the Earliest Female Authors
- History
- 2018
Women's Writing of Ancient Mesopotamia presents fresh and engaging translations of works that were composed or edited by female scribes and elite women of the ancient Near East. These texts provide…
Worship: bowing down in the service of God
- PhilosophyReligious Studies
- 2021
Philosophers commonly assume that worship is a universal attitude. Two major approaches see worship as a sui generis attitude or as the specific attitude of respect. This article criticizes the…
References
SHOWING 1-10 OF 82 REFERENCES
The Treasures of Darkness : A History of Mesopotamian Religion
- History
- 1976
The above work is in large measure a recapitulation of theories and interpretations propounded by Jacobsen in earlier writings— in particular, The intellectual adventure of ancient man (ed. H.…
Prostitutes and Courtesans in the Ancient World
- History
- 2006
"Prostitutes and Courtesans in the Ancient World" explores the implications of sex-for-pay across a broad span of time, from ancient Mesopotamia to the early Christian period. In ancient times,…
Sexuality in Greek and Roman Culture
- History
- 2005
Illustrations and Maps.Preface.Acknowledgments.Abbreviations.Chronological Chart.Introduction: Why Ancient Sexuality? Issues and Approaches.Thinking about Sex.Sex Changes.Essentialism vs.…
Family Religion in Babylonia, Syria and Israel: Continuity and Change in the Forms of Religious Life
- History
- 1996
Taking Ancient Mythology Economically
- History
- 1992
The primary objective of "Taking Ancient Mythology Economically" is to decipher the "codes" or polysemous signs of many prominent myths of the Graeco-Roman and Near Eastern worlds and thereby to…
Sex and eroticism in Mesopotamian literature
- Psychology
- 1994
Sex and Eroticism in Mesopotamian Literature is a new contribution to current debates about sex and eroticism. It gives an insight into Mesopotamian attitudes to sexuality by examining the oldest…
Sex and gender in the ancient Near East : proceedings of the 47th Rencontre Assyriologique Internationale, Helsinki, July 2-6, 2001
- History
- 2002
Pt. 1. The role of women in the society of Ebla / A. Archi -- Decisive sex, essential gender / J. Asher-Greve -- -- Sex as symbolic form / Z. Bahrani -- Temptation's garden / M-F. Besnier -- The…
Sacred prostitution and Aphrodite
- History
- 1992
Bonnie MacLachlan is Assistant Professor in the Department of Classical Studies at the University of Western Ontario, London, ON N6A 3K3 The phrase &dquo;sacred prostitution&dquo; is for our culture…
Ur-Namma the Canal-Digger: Context, Continuity and Change in Sumerian Literature
- LinguisticsJournal of Cuneiform Studies
- 1999
serves to be considered one of the great achievements of the twentieth century. The basic principle of this reconstruction, however, leaves a widespread sense of unease, resting as it does on a…
Notes on a Work of the Most Ancient Semitic Literature
- LinguisticsJournal of Cuneiform Studies
- 1989
The finding of a large archive of mid-third-millennium date at the site of ancient Ebla in Syria first raised hopes that a flood of information on the language and literature of the district would…