The Bloomsbury Handbook of Material Religion in the Ancient Near East and Egypt

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Introduction
PART ONE Material Religion
	CHAPTER ONE Chance and Lived Religion: The Material Culture of Transforming Randomness into Purpose
PART TWO The Human Body
	CHAPTER TWO Material Religion and the Body in the Ancient Near East
	CHAPTER THREE Jewelry as a Powerful Tool in the Religious Discourse between Humans and the Supernatural in the Ancient Near Eas
	CHAPTER FOUR Body Politic: Body-Objects and Necropolitics Past and Present
	CHAPTER FIVE Behind the Cultic Statue: The Materiality of Religion in Ancient Mesopotamia
	CHAPTER SIX Meanings and Practices in the Design of Objects: What Does Design Reveal about Experiences?
	CHAPTER SEVEN The Brief but Spectacular Lives of Figurines in Hittite Ritual
PART THREE The Architecture
	CHAPTER EIGHT Religious Life, Urban Fabric, and Regeneration Processes at Mari during the Second Half of the Third Millennium
	CHAPTER NINE Sacred Space and Immigrant Identity in the Middle Bronze Age: The Case of Tell el Dab.a
	CHAPTER TEN Evidence for an Urartian Belief System: The Institutionalization of Religion in the Mountainous Eastern Anatolian H
	CHAPTER ELEVEN The Price of Devotion: Costly Signals in Neolithic and Chalcolithic Architecture on the Anatolian Plateau (SHA
	CHAPTER TWELVE Building Temples in the Northern Levant
	CHAPTER THIRTEEN Sacred Architecture in Iron II Southern Levant
PART FOUR The Written Words
	CHAPTER FOURTEEN Scribes in the Temple: Materializing Missing Monuments in Mesopotamia
	CHAPTER FIFTEEN The Heraldry of Early Iranian Religion
	CHAPTER SIXTEEN The Materials of Hittite Magic and Religion
	CHAPTER SEVENTEEN Experiencing the Ancient Egyptian Book of the Dead: A Funerary Text Corpus as a Material Object
	CHAPTER EIGHTEEN Pottery and Magic: A Glimpse into Late-Antique Mesopotamian Religious Tradition and Its Materiality
	CHAPTER NINETEEN The Biblical Priestly Tradition as Material Religion: A Comparative Ancient Mediterranean Approach
PART FIVE The Animals
	CHAPTER TWENTY Man, Animal, and Gods: Animal Remains as Indicators of Beliefs in the Ancient Near East
	CHAPTER TWENTY-ONE Resting on Strong Shoulders: The Power of Animal Scapulae in the Near Eastern Neolithic
	CHAPTER TWENTY-TWO Animals and Ideology in the Pre-Pottery Neolithic B of the Southern Levant
	CHAPTER TWENTY-THREE Sharing Animals: Animal Imagery as Late Antique Intercultural Dialogue
	CHAPTER TWENTY-FOUR The Theriomorphic Images of the Hittite Gods
PART SIX The Landscape
	CHAPTER TWENTY-FIVE Material Religion and the Perception of the Sacred Landscape in Ancient Mesopotamia
	CHAPTER TWENTY-SIX Imagining the Supernatural: The Landscape of Kura-Araxes Sacred Funerary Mounds
	CHAPTER TWENTY-SEVEN Cultic Aspects of the Egyptian Desert
	CHAPTER TWENTY-EIGHT Deconstructing the Shrine: An Assay in Understanding Desert Cult
	CHAPTER TWENTY-NINE Maritime Viewscapes and the Material Religion of Levantine Seafarers
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