Women and Religion in the Ancient Near East and Asia

Foreword and Acknowledgements
Contents
Introduction
Women’s History and Gender History in Japan
Part I: Businesswomen, Empresses, and Royal Women
Socio-Economic Aspects and Agency of Female Maš-da-ri-a Contributors in Presargonic Lagash
The Role of Women in Assyrian Foreign Policy
Women Involved in Daily Management in Achaemenid Babylonia: The Cases of Rē’indu and Andiya
Wu Zetian’s Buddhist Policy: A New Perspective
Part II: Priestesses
The Office and Responsibilities of the En Priestess of Nanna: Evidence from Votive Inscriptions and Documentary Texts
High Priestesses in Old Babylonian Nippur: The NIN and NIN-dingir Priestesses of Ninurta
Hittite Royal Ideology and the Uniqueness of the Priestess Titled NIN.DINGIR
The Roles of Women in the Practice of Ancient Mesopotamian Divination
Part III: Goddesses
Enheduana’s Invocations: Form and Force
On Language, Gender, Sex, and Style in the Sumerian Language
Venomous Scorpions and Venerable Women: The Relationship Between Scorpions, the Goddess Išḫara, and Queens in the Neo-Assyrian Period
The Networks of Ashtart-Aphrodite and the Archaic Mediterranean Koiné
The Lioness Goddess Statuary from the Rock-Cut Chambers at Northwest Saqqara and Their Cult in Middle Kingdom Egypt
Index