| Topic |
Section |
Title |
| 1 Kings 17-19 | Notes | 10.4 |
| 1 Kings 17, 20 | Notes | 14.6 |
| 1 Kings 18, 30-38 | Notes | 11.3 |
| 1 Kings 18, 37 | Notes | 11.3 |
| 1 Kings 19, 12 | Notes | 14.7 |
| 1 Kings 19, 8-17 | Notes | 14.7 |
| 1 Kings 5, 17 | Notes | 20.4 |
| 1 Kings 6-9 | Notes | 20.4 |
| 1 Sam. 1, 11 | Notes | 14.6 |
| 1 Sam. 15, 22 | Notes | 13.2 |
| 1 Sam. 17, 40-54 | Notes | 7.10 |
| 11.4 |
| 1 Sam 28 | Bibliography | Van Staalduine 2002 Targum |
| 1 Sam. 28, 13-15 | Notes | 11.7 |
| 1 Sam. 28, 19 | Notes | 11.7 |
| 1 Sam. 28, 6. 15 | Notes | 11.7 |
| 1 Sam. 28, 8-20 | Notes | 22.9 |
| 1 Sam. 3, 1-18 | Notes | 11.5 |
| 1 Sam. 31, 6 | Notes | 11.7 |
| 1 Sam. 9, 14-21 | Notes | 11.2 |
| 2 Ch 3, 9-10 | Notes | 20.4 |
| 20.5 |
| 2 Kings 23, 2 | Notes | 17.7 |
| 2 Kings 2, 4-8 | Notes | 10.4 |
| 2 Kings 5, 13-14 | Notes | 11.3 |
| 2 Mac. 6, 18-31 and 7, 1-42 | Notes | 7.10 |
| 2 Mac. 7, 9 | Notes | 22.9 |
| 2 Sam. 12, 1 | Notes | 11.2 |
| 2 Sam. 24, 11-12 | Notes | 11.2 |
| 2 Sam 7, 12-13 | Notes | 20.4 |
| 2 Sam. 7, 4 | Notes | 11.2 |
| 2 Sam 7, 5 | Notes | 20.4 |
| 4banks | 1. Introduction | Relationship to the Four Banks |
| 4banks frame | 1. Introduction | Relationship to the Four Banks > The wider frame |
| 4banks project | 1. Introduction | History of the project > The 4banks project |
| 4Q186 | Bibliography | Allegro 1968 D J D 5 |
| 50 names of Marduk | Bibliography | Seri 2006 Marduk |
| Notes | 6.3 |
| abandonment | Notes | 5.4 |
| ābi | Bibliography | Buccellati 2005 Monumental |
| Buccellati Kelly- Buccellati 2004 Monumentale |
| Buccellati Kelly Buccellati 2005 Hurrian |
| Buccellati Kelly Buccellati 2007 Heaven |
| Buccellati Kelly- Buccellati 2007 Question |
| Collins 2004 Channel |
| Di Martino 2005 Archeozoologia |
| Kelly Buccellati 2002 Unterwelt |
| Kelly- Buccellati 2005 Archaeozoology |
| Kelly- Buccellati 2016 Urkesh |
| Kelly- Buccellati 2019 Ceramic |
| Minunno 2009 Emar |
| Van Staalduine 2002 Targum |
| Notes | 11.7 |
| ābi | Notes | 11.7 |
| ābi (Hurrian) | Bibliography | Schmidt 2020 Necromancy |
| Notes | 8.6 |
| 11.7 |
| `abodā(h) (עֲבֹדָּה: Hebrew) | Notes | 22.1 |
| Abraham | 8. Excerpts | Buccellati 2007 > Abraham |
| Bibliography | Berlyn 2005 Abraham |
| Box 1918 Apocalypse |
| Notes | 2.5 |
| 4.2 |
| 6.5 |
| Abri Blanchard | Bibliography | Bourrillon 2018 Aurignacian |
| absolute | 1. Introduction | 1. Religion and spirituality > The absolute |
| 4. Themes | Conditioning by the Absolute |
| Religion and spirituality > The absolute |
| 5. Monographs | The absolute |
5.Monographs
The absolute | Faith and assent |
| (In)transitivity |
| Relevance |
| Research trends |
| Spirituality and religion > The absolute |
| Universals |
| 8. Excerpts | Buccellati 2007 |
| Buccellati 2012 Trinità |
| Buccellati 2013 |
| Buccellati 2013 |
| Buccellati 2013 > The Trinity and the absolute |
| Buccellati 2014 Time > The absolute |
| Buccellati 2024 > The absolute is not defined but can be perceived |
| Buccellati 2024 > Two fundamentally different ways of conceiving of the absolute |
| Bibliography | Buccellati 1981 Wisdom |
| Buccellati 2007 Yahweh |
| Buccellati 2012 Coerenza |
| Buccellati 2012 Trinità |
| Buccellati 2013 Trinity |
| Buccellati 2014 Time |
| Xella 2001 Quando |
| Monographs | Approximations and antinomies |
| The confrontation |
| The paradox |
| Words, concepts, subliminals |
| Notes | 1.2 |
| 2.2 |
| 2.3 |
| 3.1 |
| 3.4 |
| 5.1 |
| 7.3 |
| 16.3 |
| 17.1 |
| The absolute | Introduction |
| absolute: articulation | 8. Excerpts | Buccellati 2007 > Articulation of the absolute |
| absolute chronology | Bibliography | Mitchell 1990 Astronomical |
| absolute: concept | 8. Excerpts | Buccellati 2024 > The concept of the Absolute |
| absolute conditioning | Notes | 25.1 |
| absolute: origins and perception | 8. Excerpts | Buccellati 2013 > Origins and perception of the absolute |
| absolute (perception of the) | Notes | 3.4 |
| absolute singularity | Notes | 17.4 |
| absolute transcendence | Bibliography | Buber 1937 Iandthou |
| abstention | Bibliography | Ermidoro 2020 Animals |
| Notes | 15.3 |
| abstract thought | 8. Excerpts | Buccellati 2014 Profondo |
| Abzu | Notes | 6.3 |
| 6.4 |
| accumulation | Notes | 3.3 |
| acrostics | Bibliography | Pongratz- Leisten 2010 Dreams |
| Acts 2, 17 | Notes | 11.5 |
| Adapa | Bibliography | Buccellati 1973 Adapa |
| Notes | 6.9 |
| 7.10 |
| 11.2 |
| 17.4 |
| additions | 1. Introduction | History of the project > 3. Website completion and additions |
| adversary | 8. Excerpts | Achtemeier 1996 > Adversary |
| Advice to a Prince | Bibliography | Reiner 1982 Fürstenspiegel |
| aetiological ‘myth’ | 8. Excerpts | Liverani 2005 > The Tower of Babel |
| affecting presence | 4. Themes | Affecting presence |
| afterlife | Bibliography | Piccin 2018 Mortality |
| Schmidt 2020 Necromancy |
| Von Soden 1985 Einfuhrungen |
| Wissing 2012 Ritual |
| Notes | 22.9 |
| agency | Bibliography | Popa 2016 Agency |
| ἄγγελος (ángelos: Greek) | Notes | 8.6 |
| agnosticism | Bibliography | Cicero 0045 Deorum |
| agriculture | 8. Excerpts | Eliade 1958 > Agriculture and intellectual advancement |
| agriculture and religion | 8. Excerpts | Cauvin 2000 > A new religion |
| agriculture (origins) | 8. Excerpts | Cauvin 2000 |
| agropastoralism | Notes | 6.6 |
| ’āhab (אָהַב: Hebrew) | Notes | 7.12 |
| aims | 1. Introduction | Preface > Substantive aims |
| akītu (Akkadian) | Bibliography | Bidmead 2002 Akitu |
| Pongratz- Leisten 1994 Akitu |
| Sommer 2000 Akitu |
| akītu (Akkadian) | Notes | 17.7 |
| akītu (Akkadian) | Notes | 17.7 |
| akītu (Akkadian) | Notes | 21.2 |
| akītu (Akkadian) | Notes | 22.5 |
| Akkadian | Notes | 6.2 |
| Akkadian: dictionary | Bibliography | C A D |
| Akkadian “hand-lifting” prayers | Bibliography | Ebeling 1953 Gebetsserie |
| Frechette 2012 Mesopotamian |
| Akkadian hymns | Bibliography | Lenzi 2011 Hymns |
| Akkadian literature | 8. Excerpts | Foster 2005 |
| Bibliography | Foster 2005 Before |
| S E A L |
| Akkadian personal names | Bibliography | Stamm 1939 Namengebung |
| Akkadian prayer | Bibliography | A P M |
| Lenzi 2011 Hymns |
| Notes | 14.1 |
| Akkadian texts | Bibliography | S E A L |
| alliance | Notes | 4.6 |
| 5.5 |
| allusive language | Bibliography | Noegel 2007 Dreams |
| altanni | Bibliography | Kelly- Buccellati 2016 Urkesh |
| alteration of king’s dreams | Bibliography | Peterson 2009 Alteration |
| Am 5, 21-24 | Notes | 22.2 |
| American Protestantism | Bibliography | Buccellati 1960 B O 2 |
| Notes | 1.12 |
| ߵam hāߴāreṣ (עַם הָאָרֶץ Hebrew) | 8. Excerpts | Liverani 2005 > ‘People of the Land’ |
| Ammisaduqa | Bibliography | Gurzadyan 2000 Astronomical |
| Gurzadyan 2000 Chronology |
| Gurzadyan 2003 Venus |
| Gurzadyan 2005 Chronology |
| Mitchell 1990 Astronomical |
| Rendu 2012 Venus |
| Notes | 9.3 |
| Amorite prophecy | Bibliography | Charpin 2002 Prophetes |
| Amorites | 4. Themes | Amorites and Patriarchal Traditions |
| 8. Excerpts | Achtemeier 1996 > Amorites |
| Bibliography | Buccellati 1966 Amorites |
| Cohen 2015 Problem Of Theodicy |
| Cohen 2015 Theodicy |
| Notes | 2.14 |
| 6.6 |
| amorphous chaos | Notes | 6.4 |
| ’ămûnâ (אֱמוּנָה: Hebrew) | Notes | 7.11 |
| Amurru | Notes | 6.4 |
| 6.7 |
| analogy | Notes | 19.4 |
| analysis | Notes | 1.11 |
| analytical research model | Notes | 2.9 |
| Anatolia | Bibliography | Schmidt 2011 Costruirono |
| ancestor cults | Bibliography | Schmidt 1991 Beneficent |
| Schmidt 2011 Costruirono |
| Wissing 2012 Ritual |
| Notes | 11.7 |
| ancestors | Notes | 2.6 |
| 7.1 |
| 12.6 |
| 17.8 |
| ancestry | Bibliography | Lambert 1957 Ancestors |
| Ancient Hebrew (grammar) | Bibliography | Weingreen 1959 Grammar |
| ancient Mediterranean | Bibliography | Galoppin &al 2022 Naming |
| Ancient Mediterranean religions | Bibliography | Puech 1976 Storia |
| Ancient Mesopotamia | 8. Excerpts | Oppenheim 1964 |
| ancient Mesopotamia: definition | 8. Excerpts | Jacobsen 1976 > “Ancient” |
| Ancient Near East | 4. Themes | Rituals in the |
| Bibliography | Melammu |
| Ancient Near Eastern motifs | Bibliography | Batto 1987 Sleeping God |
| Ancient Near Eastern texts | Bibliography | Pritchard 1955 A N E T 2 |
| Ancient Near East history | Bibliography | Bryce 2016 Atlas |
| Liverani 2014 History |
| Ancient Near East: polytheism | Bibliography | Biga- Capomacchia 2008 Politeismo |
| Notes | 1.5 |
| Ancient Near East religion | Bibliography | Albright 1940 A N Ereligion |
| ancient religion | Bibliography | Galoppin &al 2022 Naming |
| ancient texts | Bibliography | Enheduana |
| andirons | Bibliography | Oates 1978 Religion |
| ANE literature | Bibliography | Atrahasis |
| angel | 8. Excerpts | Achtemeier 1996 > Angel |
| angels | Bibliography | Schenker 1997 Monotheisme |
| Notes | 8.6 |
| animal sacrifice | Bibliography | Scurlock 2002 Animal Sacrifice |
| Annales | Bibliography | Harsgor 1978 Annales |
| annotated bibliography | 1. Introduction | Digital dimension > An annotated bibliogaphy – and beyond |
| II. The Record | 7. Annotated bibliography |
| anointing | 9. Critical reviews | Lorenzo Viganò 1995 Ebla II |
| anointment | Bibliography | Vigano 2000 Rituals |
| antediluvian | Bibliography | Lambert 1957 Ancestors |
| Reiner 1961 Etio Sages |
| anthropology of rituals | 8. Excerpts | Balentine 2020 > Anthropology of Rituals |
| anthropomorphic gods | 8. Excerpts | Cauvin 2000 > The religion of the bull |
| anthropomorphism | 8. Excerpts | Achtemeier 1996 > Anthropomorphism |
| Buccellati 2012 Coerenza |
| Bibliography | Doak 2006 Justice |
| Hamori 2008 Embodied God |
| Herles 2006 Gotterdarstellungen |
| Hundley 2013 Examination |
| Machinist 2014 Anthropomorphism |
| Nadali 2013 Ritual Art |
| Pongratz- Leisten 2011 Divine Agency |
| Pongratz- Leisten Sonik 2015 Materiality |
| Notes | 3.6 |
| 18.3 |
| anti-witchcraft rituals | Bibliography | C M Aw Ro |
| Anu | Notes | 7.10 |
| 11.2 |
| 14.5 |
| 17.3 |
| anunak (Sumerian) | Notes | 6.2 |
| Anunnaku | Notes | 6.2 |
| Anzu | Notes | 8.4 |
| 13.9 |
| 14.5 |
| apocalypse | Bibliography | Box 1918 Apocalypse |
| Buccellati 1972 Beatitudini |
| Notes | 10.1 |
| ἀποκάλυψις (apokálupsis: Greek) | Notes | 17.6 |
| Apology of Ḫattušili III | Bibliography | Hoffner 1975 Propaganda |
| apophatism | 4. Themes | Innumerability |
| apparitions | Notes | 11.1 |
| appendices | II. The Record | 10. Sources |
| Appendix 1 | Notes | 8.1 |
| 13.10 |
| Appendix 10 | Notes | 11.5 |
| Appendix 10.4-6 | Bibliography | Oppenheim 1956 Dreams |
| Appendix 11 | Bibliography | Ebeling 1923 Keilschrifttexte |
| Scheil 1913 Memoires |
| Notes | 11.6 |
| Appendix 11.7 | Notes | 13.7 |
| Appendix 12 | Notes | 14.2 |
| Appendix 13 | Bibliography | Caplice 1965 Namburbi |
| Caplice 1967 Namburbi |
| Caplice 1974 Namburbi |
| Appendix 13.1-3 | Notes | 9.2 |
| Appendix 13.2 | Notes | 13.10 |
| Appendix 13.3 | Bibliography | Ebeling 1955 Namburbi |
| Notes | 13.10 |
| 13.11 |
| Appendix 14 | Bibliography | Biggs 1967 Shaziga |
| Appendix 14.1 | Notes | 13.7 |
| 13.10 |
| Appendix 14.2 | Notes | 13.10 |
| Appendix 15.4 | Notes | 13.10 |
| Appendix 15.5 | Notes | 13.10 |
| Appendix 15.6 | Notes | 13.10 |
| 13.11 |
| Appendix 16 | Bibliography | Meier 1967 Maqlu |
| Appendix 16.1 | Notes | 13.10 |
| Appendix 16.2 | Notes | 13.10 |
| Appendix 17 | Bibliography | Stamm 1939 Namengebung |
| Notes | 14.2 |
| Appendix 17.1 | Notes | 14.2 |
| Appendix 17.2 | Notes | 14.2 |
| Appendix 2 | Bibliography | Jacobsen 1987 Harps |
| Notes | 8.3 |
| 13.10 |
| Appendix 3 | Notes | 8.4 |
| 13.10 |
| Appendix 4 | Bibliography | Dossin 1935 Prieres |
| Notes | 9.1 |
| 9.4 |
| 11.3 |
| Appendix 5 | Notes | 9.2 |
| 11.3 |
| Appendix 6 | Bibliography | Reiner 1981 Enuma |
| Notes | 9.3 |
| 11.3 |
| Appendix 7 | Bibliography | Starr 1983 Diviner |
| Notes | 9.4 |
| Appendix 8 | Bibliography | Pettinato 1966 Lecanomancy |
| Notes | 9.5 |
| Appendix 9 | Bibliography | Dossin 1967 Correspondance |
| Dossin 1978 Correspondance |
| Durand 1988 Archives |
| Notes | 10.7 |
| approaches to the absolute | Notes | 16.3 |
| approach (Liverani) | 8. Excerpts | Liverani 2005 > Foreword: approach |
| arāru (Akkadian) | Notes | 14.5 |
| archaeological reason | Bibliography | Buccellati 2017 C A R |
| archaeology | Bibliography | Buccellati 2017 C A R |
| Flannery 2012 Temples Inequality |
| Meyers 1997 O E A N E |
| archetypes | 8. Excerpts | Eliade 1958 > Nostalgia for eternity |
| Eliade 1958 > Sacred time |
| architecture | Bibliography | Flannery 2012 Temples Inequality |
| Notes | 26.4 |
| archival structures | Bibliography | Lynch 2024 Ph D |
| archives | III. Utilities | 15. Archives |
| ‘ārelat lebabekem (עָרְלַת לְבַבְכֶם: Hebrew) | Notes | 8.4 |
| argumentation | Bibliography | Moshavi 2015rhetoric |
| Notes | 17.2 |
| ἀρχή (arché: Greek) | Notes | 17.3 |
| ´ărôn haqqodeš (אֲרוֹן הַקֹּדֶשׁ: Hebrew) | Notes | 21.5 |
| art | Bibliography | Buccellati 2014 Time |
| Lambert 1990 Gods Superstition |
| Notes | 26.4 |
| `aṣabê haggôyim (עֲצַבֵּי הַגֹּויִם: Hebrew) = ‘the idols of the people’ | Notes | 18.2 |
| asakku/ašakku (Akkadian) | Notes | 8.6 |
| Asherah | 8. Excerpts | Achtemeier 1996 > Asherah |
| 9. Critical reviews | Mark Smith 2001 Monotheism |
| Bibliography | Becking 2001 Only |
| Merlo 1994 Asherah |
| Wiggins 2007 Asherah |
| Notes | 18.4 |
| Asia Minor | Bibliography | Wegner 1981 Ishtar |
| āšipu (Akkadian) | Bibliography | Schwemer 2011 Magic |
| āšipu (Akkadian) | Notes | 13.8 |
| ašipūtu (Akkadian) | Notes | 13.8 |
| Asmodeus | Notes | 8.6 |
| assembly of gods | 8. Excerpts | Jacobsen 1976 > Assembly of gods |
| assumption | Notes | 7.7 |
| assumptions | 8. Excerpts | Buccellati 2024 > How to consider our own assumptions |
| Assur | Bibliography | Parpola 1993 Tree |
| Notes | 6.4 |
| Assyria | 8. Excerpts | Pongratz-Leisten 2015 |
| Assyrian annals | Notes | 19.2 |
| Assyrian Dream-Book | Bibliography | Oppenheim 1956 Dreams |
| Oppenheim 1969 Dream Book |
| Assyrian elegy | Bibliography | George 2010 Elegy |
| Notes | 25.6 |
| Assyrian prophecy | Bibliography | Parpola 1997 S A A 9 |
| Weippert 1985 Bildsprache |
| Weippert 2002 Konig |
| Assyrian religion | Bibliography | Weippert 2002 Konig |
| Assyrian religious texts | Bibliography | Ebeling 1923 Keilschrifttexte |
| Assyrian texts | 8. Excerpts | Frahm 2011 |
| Assyriology: birth | 8. Excerpts | Oppenheim 1964 > The birth of Assyriology |
| astral divination | Bibliography | Hunger 1999 Astral |
| astral-medicine | Bibliography | Rochberg 2014 Divination |
| astrology | Bibliography | Mander 2009 Religione |
| Rochberg 2014 Divination |
| Notes | 9.3 |
| astronomical observations | Bibliography | Mitchell 1990 Astronomical |
| astronomy | Bibliography | Rochberg 2014 Divination |
| asymmetry: basic | 4. Themes | Mesopotamia and the Bible > A basic asymmetry |
5.Monographs
The absolute | Mesopotamia and the Bible > A basic asymmetry |
| asymmetry: deeper | 4. Themes | Mesopotamia and the Bible > A deeper asymmetry |
5.Monographs
The absolute | Mesopotamia and the Bible > A deeper asymmetry |
| Aten | Bibliography | Buccellati 2012 Aten |
| Athirat | 9. Critical reviews | Mark Smith 2001 Monotheism |
| atonement | 8. Excerpts | Achtemeier 1996 > Atonement |
| Bibliography | Stump 2020 Atonement |
| Notes | 13.13 |
| atonement, day of | 8. Excerpts | Achtemeier 1996 > Atonement, Day of |
| atonement (Syria) | 8. Excerpts | Balentine 2020 > Atonement in Syria |
| Atrahasis | Bibliography | Atrahasis |
| Ermidoro 2017 Atrahasis |
| F Kensky 1977 Atrahasis Genesis |
| Notes | 6.2 |
| 6.8 |
| 7.8 |
| 11.2 |
| 13.2 |
| Attis | Bibliography | Xella 2001 Quando |
| attributes | 4. Themes | God and the gods: person vs. attributes |
| 8. Excerpts | Buccellati 2024 > Gods as attributes |
| Buccellati 2024 > The gods as hypostasized attributes |
| Jacobsen 1976 > Name and form (= attributes) |
| Notes | 3.6 |
| 5.1 |
| 5.2 |
| audiences | 1. Introduction | Digital dimension > Audiences |
| author index | III. Utilities | MNI: Details > Author search |
| MNI: Guide > Author Index |
| authorship | 8. Excerpts | Frahm 2011 > Authorship (Mesopotamian ‘anonymity’ vs. Biblical ‘authorship’); canonicity |
| Bibliography | Lambert 1957 Ancestors |
| Pongratz- Leisten 2010 Dreams |
| III. Utilities | 13. Authorship |
| Axial Age | Bibliography | Snell 2010 Religions |
| Azazel | Notes | 13.13 |
| Baal | Bibliography | Schwemer 2001 Wettergottgestalten |
| Xella 2001 Quando |
| Baalism vs. Yahwism | 8. Excerpts | Liverani 2005 > Baalism vs. Yahwism |
| Babylon | Bibliography | D M B |
| George 1992 B T T |
| Babylonian | Bibliography | Buccellati 1996 Grammar |
| Babylonian and Assyrian text commentaries | Bibliography | Frahm 2011 Commentaries |
| Babylonian and Hebrew theophoric names | Bibliography | Offord 2013 Theophoric |
| Babylonian atonement ritual | Bibliography | Langdon 1917 Atonement |
| Babylonian creation myths | Bibliography | Kammerer Metzler 2012 Enuma |
| Babylonian medicine | Bibliography | Geller 2010 Medicine |
| Babylonian omen texts | Bibliography | Goetze 1974 Y O S 10 |
| Babylonian physiognomics | Bibliography | Kraus 1939 Physiognomatik |
| Babylonian religion | Bibliography | Nougayrol 1976 Babylon |
| Notes | 2.3 |
| Babylonian texts | 8. Excerpts | Frahm 2011 |
| Babylonian Theodicy | Bibliography | Cohen 2015 Problem Of Theodicy |
| Cohen 2015 Theodicy |
| Oshima 2014 Sufferers |
| Notes | 12.3 |
| Babylonian wisdom | Bibliography | Beaulieu 2007 Wisdom |
| Lambert 1960 Wisdom |
| bad gods | Bibliography | Snell 2010 Religions |
| balṭu (Akkadian) | Notes | 22.8 |
| bāmôt (בָמֹות: Hebrew) | Notes | 20.5 |
| banquet | 9. Critical reviews | Paolo Matthiae 2012 Culte |
| Notes | 22.8 |
| baptism | 9. Critical reviews | Lorenzo Viganò 1995 Ebla II |
| barû (Akkadian) | Notes | 10.1 |
| bārak (ברך: Hebrew) | Notes | 7.12 |
| bārû (Akkadian) | Notes | 9.1 |
| 10.1 |
| Bārû rituals | Bibliography | Starr 1980 Rituals |
| battle | Bibliography | Jacobsen 1968 Battle |
| Jacobsen 1975 Religious Drama |
| Notes | 6.3 |
| bayit lešēm (בַּיִת לְשֵׁם: Hebrew) | Notes | 20.4 |
| bayit lišemî (בַּיִת לִשְׁמִי: Hebrew) | Notes | 20.4 |
| Beatitudes | Bibliography | Buccellati 1972 Beatitudini |
| before philosophy | Notes | 2.4 |
| 2.9 |
| 17.2 |
| beginning | Notes | 3.5 |
| 6.5 |
| 6.9 |
| 17.3 |
| 22.5 |
| benedictions | Notes | 14.2 |
| Ben Sira | Bibliography | Martone 1997 Ben Sira |
| berît (בְּרֵאשִׁ֖ית: Hebrew) | Notes | 4.6 |
| berît (בְּרִית: Hebrew) | Notes | 5.5 |
| Berossus | Bibliography | Mander 2009 Religione |
| beṣalme-nu (בְּצַלְמֵנוּ: Hebrew) | Notes | 18.4 |
| betôratô yehgeh (בְתֹורָתֹו יֶהְגֶּה: Hebrew) | Notes | 12.5 |
| beyondness of the absolute | 8. Excerpts | Buccellati 2013 > “Beyondness” and “nullification” of the absolute |
| BHS | Bibliography | B H S |
| Bible | 4. Themes | Mesopotamia and the Bible |
| Rituals in the |
5.Monographs
The absolute | Mesopotamia and the Bible |
| 9. Critical reviews | Mario Liverani 2009 Oltre |
| Mark Smith 2001 Monotheism |
| Bibliography | Bi Hu |
| Boase 2016 Trauma |
| Bowley Reeves 2003 Bible |
| Buccellati 1960 B O 2 |
| Buccellati 1966 Bibbia |
| Deluty 2020 Prophecy |
| d H Gudme 2012 Dedicatory |
| Disegni 2003 Hebrew Bible |
| Houck- Loomis 2018 Trauma |
| Keller 1956 Bible |
| Kitz 2007 Curses |
| Liverani 2009 Oltre |
| Lurker 2005 Dictionary |
| Machinist 2014 Anthropomorphism |
| Notes | 1.11 |
| 1.12 |
| 2.2 |
| 2.5 |
| 2.6 |
| Bible and its later reception (encyclopedia) | Bibliography | E B R |
| Bible canon | Notes | 17.8 |
| Bible (dictionary) | 8. Excerpts | Achtemeier 1996 |
| biblical culture | Notes | 2.6 |
| biblical image ban | Bibliography | Ornan 2005 Triumph |
| biblical kingship | Notes | 16.6 |
| Biblical ‘Lamentations’ | Notes | 19.1 |
| Biblical Lamentations | Notes | 23.2 |
| biblical paganism | Notes | 18.2 |
| Biblical studies | I. The Argument | 6. History of the Discipline > Biblical studies |
| bigotry | Notes | 7.5 |
| Bilgamesh (cf. Gilgamesh) | 8. Excerpts | George 2003 > Bilgamesh and the Netherworld |
| biological substrate | Bibliography | Yalom 2012 Love |
| biology | Bibliography | Burkert 1998 Creation |
| Notes | 1.1 |
| birth | 8. Excerpts | Cauvin 2000 > A dynamic drama: suffering and death |
| Eliade 1958 > Birth and creation |
| birth of Assyriology | 8. Excerpts | Oppenheim 1964 > The birth of Assyriology |
| blood | 8. Excerpts | Oppenheim 1964 > Unease about Idols |
| BM 13928 | Bibliography | Streck 2016 Wolves |
| BM 79111+ | Bibliography | Streck 2014 Wisdom |
| boat | Bibliography | Hatinen 2017 Boat |
| Notes | 25.6 |
| body parts | Bibliography | De Zorzi 2011 Omina |
| Book of Job | Bibliography | Cohen 2015 Problem Of Theodicy |
| Cohen 2015 Theodicy |
| Notes | 12.4 |
| Book of Psalms | 8. Excerpts | Davis 2016 > Extended summary of {B}R/Davis2016Relating |
| Davis 2016 > Human-divine relationship in Biblical laments |
| Book of Revelation | Bibliography | Kelly Buccellati 1996 Seals |
| Notes | 17.6 |
| Book of Tobias | Notes | 1.5 |
| Book of Wisdom | Notes | 12.4 |
| 14.7 |
| books on religion and faith | Bibliography | Mohr Siebeck |
| Borsippa | Notes | 9.3 |
| Bottéro | I. The Argument | 6. History of the Discipline > Jean Bottéro |
| boundary stones | Bibliography | Lambert 1957 Ancestors |
| broken tradition | Notes | 2.15 |
| 26.3 |
| Buccellati, Giorgio | Bibliography | Lynch 2024 Ph D |
| Buccellati’s contribution to the history of religion | I. The Argument | 6. History of the Discipline > Buccellati’s contribution in the present work |
| bucrania | 8. Excerpts | Cauvin 2000 > A new religion |
| Buddhism | 8. Excerpts | Buccellati 2013 > Emptiness of the absolute in Buddhism |
| bull | 8. Excerpts | Cauvin 2000 > A new religion |
| Cauvin 2000 > The religion of the bull |
| Bibliography | Balter 2005 Catalhoyuk |
| burial customs | Bibliography | Oates 1978 Religion |
| Trinkaus 1983 Shanidar |
| Notes | 1.5 |
| Burials | Notes | 1.5 |
| burials (inside private houses) | Notes | 6.4 |
| burning offerings (OT) | 8. Excerpts | Oppenheim 1964 > Unease about Idols |
| Bush, Vannevar | Bibliography | Lynch 2024 Ph D |
| Byblos | Bibliography | Xella 2014 Dieux |
| CAH (Cambridge Ancient History) | Bibliography | C A H |
| calendar | Bibliography | Cohen 2015 Calendars |
| Ermidoro 2017 Time |
| Stern 2012 Calendars |
| Verderame 2006 Calendrier |
| calendars | 4. Themes | Time and Calendars in Mesopotamia |
| Bibliography | Bourrillon 2018 Aurignacian |
| Buccellati 2014 Dalprofondo |
| Buccellati 2014 Time |
| Notes | 9.3 |
| 22.5 |
| Canaanites | Bibliography | Morton 1952 Theology |
| canon | Bibliography | Buccellati 2020 Job |
| Hurowitz 1997 Canon Canonization Mesopotamia |
| Rochberg 2015 Canonand Power |
| Notes | 2.6 |
| 7.1 |
| 7.5 |
| 17.8 |
| canonicity | 8. Excerpts | Frahm 2011 > Authorship (Mesopotamian ‘anonymity’ vs. Biblical ‘authorship’); canonicity |
| Frahm 2011 > ‘Canon’ and ‘canonicity’ (Mesopotamia vs. Bible) |
| CAR | 1. Introduction | Relationship to the Four Banks > Relationship to CAR |
| Çatal Höyük | 8. Excerpts | Cauvin 2000 > A new religion |
| Çatal-Höyük | Bibliography | Balter 2005 Catalhoyuk |
| Çatalhöyük | Bibliography | Hodder 2010 Emergence |
| Çatal Höyük | Bibliography | Mellaart 1967 Catal |
| CBS 14235 | Bibliography | Streck 2016 Wolves |
| celestial bull | 8. Excerpts | Cauvin 2000 > The religion of the bull |
| center/periphery | Bibliography | Kang 2012 Eliade Duranki |
| centrality | Notes | 1.2 |
| centralization | 4. Themes | Time and Calendars in Mesopotamia |
| centre of the world | 8. Excerpts | Eliade 1958 > The centre of the world |
| Chaldean Oracles | Bibliography | Mander 2009 Religione |
| chaos | Bibliography | Jahn 2013 Creation |
| Notes | 4.4 |
| Chaoskampf | Bibliography | Batto 1987 Sleeping God |
| Chapter | 2. The Core | Chapter 14 |
| Chapter 1 | 2. The Core | Chapter 1 |
| Chapter 10 | 2. The Core | Chapter 10 |
| Chapter 11 | 2. The Core | Chapter 11 |
| Chapter 12 | 2. The Core | Chapter 12 |
| Chapter 13 | 2. The Core | Chapter 13 |
| Chapter 15 | 2. The Core | Chapter 15 |
| Chapter 16 | 2. The Core | Chapter 16 |
| Chapter 17 | 2. The Core | Chapter 17 |
| Chapter 18 | 2. The Core | Chapter 18 |
| Chapter 19 | 2. The Core | Chapter 19 |
| Chapter 2 | 2. The Core | Chapter 2 |
| Chapter 20 | 2. The Core | Chapter 20 |
| Chapter 21 | 2. The Core | Chapter 21 |
| Chapter 22 | 2. The Core | Chapter 22 |
| Chapter 23 | 2. The Core | Chapter 23 |
| Chapter 24 | 2. The Core | Chapter 24 |
| Chapter 25 | 2. The Core | Chapter 25 |
| Chapter 26 | 2. The Core | Chapter 26 |
| Chapter 3 | 2. The Core | Chapter 3 |
| Chapter 4 | 2. The Core | Chapter 4 |
| Chapter 5 | 2. The Core | Chapter 5 |
| Chapter 6 | 2. The Core | Chapter 6 |
| Chapter 7 | 2. The Core | Chapter 7 |
| Chapter 8 | 2. The Core | Chapter 8 |
| Chapter 9 | 2. The Core | Chapter 9 |
| cherubims | Notes | 8.6 |
| children: origins | 8. Excerpts | Eliade 1958 > Origin of children |
| Chinese religions | Bibliography | Snell 2010 Religions |
| chosen people | Notes | 8.3 |
| chronology | Bibliography | Gurzadyan 2000 Astronomical |
| Gurzadyan 2000 Chronology |
| Gurzadyan 2003 Venus |
| Gurzadyan 2005 Chronology |
| chthonian deities | Bibliography | Kelly Buccellati 2002 Unterwelt |
| circumcision | Notes | 13.5 |
| city | Bibliography | Buccellati 2020 Awilis |
| Notes | 19.1 |
| civilization | Bibliography | Buccellati 2020 Awilis |
| Classical texts | Bibliography | Perseus |
| clay figurines | Bibliography | Oates 1978 Religion |
| clergy, cultic activities | Bibliography | Jestin 1976 Sumer |
| closed system | Bibliography | Buccellati 1981 Wisdom |
| ‘closed system’ | Notes | 1.2 |
| close system | Notes | 3.2 |
| Code of Hammurapi | Bibliography | Harper 1904 Code |
| Notes | 8.4 |
| 14.5 |
| 16.5 |
| 17.3 |
| 19.1 |
| coherence | 4. Themes | Coherence |
| 8. Excerpts | Buccellati 2012 Coerenza |
| Eliade 1958 > Plant symbolism |
| Frahm 2011 > Coherence, rationality |
| coherence of God | 8. Excerpts | Buccellati 2024 > The Coherence of the God of Israel |
| commandment | 8. Excerpts | Achtemeier 1996 > Commandment |
| commandments | Notes | 4.3 |
| common people’s religion | Bibliography | Nejat 2007 Commonreligion |
| communal laments | 8. Excerpts | Davis 2016 > Human-divine relationship in Biblical laments |
| communication | Bibliography | Lynch 2024 Ph D |
| communication between gods and kings | Bibliography | Pongratz- Leisten 1999 Herrschaftswissen |
| companion website | 1. Introduction | History of the project > 1. A companion website |
| comparative approach | 8. Excerpts | Balentine 2020 > Comparative Approach |
| Davis 2016 > Extended summary of {B}R/Davis2016Relating |
| Notes | 2.2 |
| comparative history of religions | Bibliography | Brelich 1976 Prolegomeni |
| Notes | 1.3 |
| 2.2 |
| comparative method | Bibliography | Buccellati 1966 Bibbia |
| Frankfort 1958 Dying God |
| Sayce 1902 Religions |
| Notes | 1.11 |
| 2.2 |
| 2.5 |
| Comparative religion | Bibliography | Bianchi 1985 History |
| Bianchi 1993 History |
| Dempsey 2013 Comparative |
| comparative religion | Bibliography | Eliade 1958 Patterns |
| Comparative religion | Bibliography | Gothoni 2005 Comparative |
| Sharpe 1986 Comparative |
| comparative religion | I. The Argument | 6. History of the Discipline > Comparative religion |
| compilation tablets | Bibliography | Cohen 2018 Morality In Antiquity |
| completion | 1. Introduction | History of the project > 3. Website completion and additions |
| conceptions of the absolute | Notes | 3.2 |
| concepts | 1. Introduction | 1. Religion and spirituality > Words and concepts |
| 4. Themes | Religion and spirituality > Words and concepts |
5.Monographs
The absolute | Spirituality and religion > Words and concepts |
| conditioning | 4. Themes | Conditioning by the Absolute |
| conflict | Bibliography | Bettini 2014 Polytheism |
| confrontation with the absolute | Notes | 25.2 |
| confusion of languages | Notes | 8.5 |
| conquest | 8. Excerpts | Liverani 2005 > Invention of the Conquest |
| construction inscriptions | Notes | 20.3 |
| contemplation | 8. Excerpts | Eliade 1958 > Nature is never purely “natural” |
| context: mythical and historical | Notes | 17.1 |
| continuity | Notes | 2.3 |
| contracts | Bibliography | Lambert 1957 Ancestors |
| contrast: revealing face vs. hiding name | 8. Excerpts | Buccellati 2007 > A contrast |
| contributors | 1. Introduction | Preface > The contributors |
| control | 5.Monographs
The absolute | Universals > The question of control |
| Notes | 2.10 |
| control of religious practices | Notes | 22.3 |
| control of time | Notes | 22.5 |
| 22.6 |
| conversion in Mesopotamia | Notes | 7.13 |
| conversion in the Bible | Notes | 7.13 |
| Coptic | Bibliography | Coptic Scriptorium |
| core | I. The Argument | 2. The Core |
| cosmic order | Bibliography | Jestin 1976 Sumer |
| cosmic or historic cycle | 8. Excerpts | Eliade 1958 > Primeval water |
| cosmic tree | 8. Excerpts | Eliade 1958 > Plant symbolism |
| cosmology | 8. Excerpts | Lambert 2013 > Cosmology |
| Bibliography | Lambert 1958 Morals |
| Lambert 2013 Creation Myths |
| cosmos | 8. Excerpts | Eliade 1958 > Birth and creation |
| cosmotheism | Bibliography | Mander 2009 Religione |
| Notes | 1.1 |
| counter-history | Bibliography | Houck- Loomis 2018 Trauma |
| country of four edges/banks of the world | Notes | 26.1 |
| court Neo-Assyrian poetry | Bibliography | Livingstone 1989 S A A 3 |
| covenant | 8. Excerpts | Achtemeier 1996 > Covenant |
| Buccellati 2007 > The covenant |
| Bibliography | Grassi Freire 2017 Oaths |
| Mendenhall 1975 Conflict |
| Notes | 16.6 |
| creation | 4. Themes | Creation |
| 8. Excerpts | Achtemeier 1996 > Creation |
| Eliade 1958 > Birth and creation |
| Lambert 2013 |
| Bibliography | Dalley 2000 Myths |
| Kammerer Metzler 2012 Enuma |
| Lambert 2013 Creation Myths |
| Neusner 1991 Confronting |
| Pieper 1999silence |
| Reiner 1961 Etio Sages |
| Notes | 3.5 |
| 6.3 |
| 7.9 |
| 10.2 |
| 25.2 |
| creation of Adam | Notes | 7.9 |
| creation of mankind (Bible) | Notes | 6.8 |
| critique | I. The Argument | 6. History of the Discipline > Text and critique |
| CTH 341 | Bibliography | Stefanini 1969 Enkidu |
| cult | Bibliography | Brelich 1976 Prolegomeni |
| Renfrew 2012 Cognitive |
| Notes | 18.3 |
| cultic activities | Bibliography | Bonechi 1989 Ebla |
| Schmidt 2011 Costruirono |
| Xella 2014 Dieux |
| Notes | 2.13 |
| 13.1 |
| 13.4 |
| 15.1 |
| 17.7 |
| 22.11 |
| cultic calendars | Bibliography | Cohen 1993 Cultic |
| Wegner 1981 Ishtar |
| Notes | 9.3 |
| cultic images | Bibliography | Braun Holzinger 2013 Gotterdarstellung |
| Notes | 18.1 |
| 18.2 |
| 18.3 |
| cultic journey | Bibliography | Buccellati 1982 Descent |
| cultic practice | Bibliography | Arkhipov 2019 Zimri- Lim |
| Knohl 1996 Prayer Temple |
| cultic rituals | 4. Themes | Rituals in the |
| cultic statues | 8. Excerpts | Balentine 2020 > Cultic Statues |
| cultic technicians | 9. Critical reviews | Marco Bonechi 1989 Ebla |
| cultic topography | Notes | 5.1 |
| cult-inventory texts | Bibliography | Wegner 1981 Ishtar |
| cults | 8. Excerpts | Achtemeier 1996 > Cults |
| Oppenheim 1964 > Ignorance of data |
| 9. Critical reviews | Marco Bonechi 1989 Ebla |
| cult technicians | Notes | 22.11 |
| cultural assumptions | Notes | 1.10 |
| cultural milieu | Notes | 17.6 |
| cultural tradition | Bibliography | Brelich 1976 Prolegomeni |
| Notes | 2.7 |
| 8.3 |
| culture | 8. Excerpts | Buccellati 2024 > Sharing experience |
| cuneiform | Bibliography | Van De Mieroop 2016 Philosophy |
| cuneiform tablets at BM | Bibliography | Sigristetal 1996 Catalogue |
| cuneiform tablets from Nineveh | Bibliography | Bezold 1889- 1899 Catalogue |
| King 1914 Catalogue |
| cuneiform texts | Bibliography | C D L I |
| E T A N A |
| H A W |
| O R A C C |
| Rawlinson 1861- 1884 C I W A |
| current version | III. Utilities | 15. Archives |
| curses | Bibliography | Kitz 2007 Curses |
| Notes | 14.2 |
| cyclical time | Notes | 19.2 |
| cylinder seals and sealings | Notes | 15.2 |
| DABI | III. Utilities | 14. Data handling |
| Dagan of Terqa | Bibliography | Arkhipov 2019 Zimri- Lim |
| dalālu (Akkadian) | Notes | 7.10 |
| Dan 2 | Bibliography | Pinker 2005 Daniel |
| Dan. 7-12 | Notes | 17.6 |
| Daniel | Bibliography | Pinker 2005 Daniel |
| data handling | III. Utilities | 14. Data handling |
| data representation | Bibliography | Lynch 2024 Ph D |
| dataset | Bibliography | Lynch 2024 Ph D |
| David and Goliath | Notes | 11.4 |
| dawn of civilization | Bibliography | Balter 2005 Catalhoyuk |
| day of atonement | 8. Excerpts | Achtemeier 1996 > Atonement, Day of |
| Notes | 21.2 |
| dead civilizations | Notes | 1.9 |
| Dead Sea Scrolls | Bibliography | Vermer 2011 D S S |
| death | 8. Excerpts | Achtemeier 1996 > Death |
| Cauvin 2000 > A dynamic drama: suffering and death |
| Bibliography | Abusch 2001 Gilgamesh |
| Hodder 2010 Emergence |
| Piccin 2018 Mortality |
| Schmidt 2020 Necromancy |
| Von Soden 1985 Einfuhrungen |
| Notes | 13.14 |
| 22.8 |
| 22.9 |
| death of god | 8. Excerpts | Oppenheim 1964 > Is Tammuz a “type” of later gods? |
| Bibliography | Freedman 1995 Hidden |
| Xella 2001 Quando |
| death of gods | 8. Excerpts | Jacobsen 1976 > Death of god |
| Xella 2014 > Death of gods |
| decalogue | Notes | 17.1 |
| 17.5 |
| Decennial Annals of Muršili | Bibliography | Hoffner 1975 Propaganda |
| decline of the temple | 8. Excerpts | Oppenheim 1964 > Decline of the temple |
| dedicatory inscriptions | Bibliography | d H Gudme 2012 Dedicatory |
| Gotze 1970 Early |
| Notes | 14.2 |
| definition | 4. Themes | On the Definition of Religion |
| definition of religion | Bibliography | Asad 1993 Religion Anthropological Category |
| Foster 1991 On Authorship |
| Geertz 1973 Religion Cultural System |
| deified kings | 9. Critical reviews | Paolo Matthiae 2012 Culte |
| deities | Bibliography | Lurker 2005 Dictionary |
| vander Horst 1999 D D D |
| deities: agency | 8. Excerpts | Buccellati 2012 Coerenza |
| deities: definition | 8. Excerpts | Buccellati 2012 Coerenza |
| Demeter | Bibliography | Xella 2001 Quando |
| demons | Bibliography | Frey- Anthes 2008 Demons |
| Green 1984 Beneficent |
| Green 1986 Note |
| Lurker 2005 Dictionary |
| Machinist 2014 Anthropomorphism |
| Schenker 1997 Monotheisme |
| vander Horst 1999 D D D |
| vander Toorn 2003 Theology |
| Von Soden 1985 Einfuhrungen |
| Notes | 8.6 |
| 13.12 |
| demons: definition (Egypt) | Bibliography | Lucarelli 2010 Demons |
| demût (דְמוּת: Hebrew) | Notes | 18.4 |
| depiction of deities in Mesopotamia | Notes | 15.4 |
| descent of Inanna | Bibliography | Buccellati 1982 Descent |
| Notes | 2.15 |
| desire | Bibliography | Marks 1986 Desire |
| Notes | 25.5 |
| destiny | 8. Excerpts | Buccellati 2012 Coerenza |
| Lambert 2013 > The decreeing of destinies |
| Bibliography | Buccellati 1973 Adapa |
| Cornford 1957 Philosophy |
| Jestin 1976 Sumer |
| Lambert 2013 Creation Myths |
| Piccin 2018 Mortality |
| Streck 2014 Wisdom |
| Notes | 3.1 |
| 5.3 |
| 14.5 |
| 24.4 |
| 25.2 |
| determination of fate | Notes | 14.5 |
| Deut. 5, 6 | Notes | 13.11 |
| development of city | Notes | 19.3 |
| development of human communities | Notes | 26.2 |
| development of religion | Bibliography | Jacobsen 1976 Treasures |
| development of religious thought | Notes | 25.1 |
| devotional places | Bibliography | Wegner 1981 Ishtar |
| diachrony | Notes | 6.2 |
| dialectics | Notes | 17.2 |
| Dialog of Pessimism | Notes | 12.3 |
| 13.2 |
| Dialogue between the Master and his Servant | Bibliography | Greenstein 2007 Dialogue |
| diberê habberît (דִּבְרֵי הַבְּרִית: Hebrew) | Notes | 8.4 |
| dictionary of the Bible | Bibliography | Freedman 2000 Eerdmans |
| differentiation | Notes | 17.4 |
| diffuse transcendence | Bibliography | Buber 1937 Iandthou |
| diĝir (Sumerian) | Notes | 6.2 |
| digital approach | Bibliography | Lynch 2024 Ph D |
| digital dimension | 1. Introduction | Digital dimension |
| digital divide | 1. Introduction | History of the project > 2. The digital divide |
| digital humanities | Bibliography | Lynch 2024 Ph D |
| digitality | Bibliography | Lynch 2024 Ph D |
| digital methods applied to history | Bibliography | Lynch 2024 Ph D |
| dingiršadabba | 8. Excerpts | Davis 2016 > Extended summary of {B}R/Davis2016Relating |
| dingiršadabba | 8. Excerpts | Davis 2016 > Human-divine relationship in dingiršadabba prayers |
| dingiršadabba (Sumerian) | Bibliography | Davis 2016 Relating |
| Diodorus Siculus | Notes | 9.3 |
| Dionysus | Bibliography | Xella 2001 Quando |
| disappearance of god | 8. Excerpts | Oppenheim 1964 > Is Tammuz a “type” of later gods? |
| Bibliography | Freedman 1995 Hidden |
| Xella 2001 Quando |
| disorder | Bibliography | Heffron 2014 Noise |
| Notes | 4.4 |
| 12.4 |
| distinctions | Bibliography | Zerubavel 1991 Fine Line |
| divination | 8. Excerpts | Achtemeier 1996 > Magic and Divination |
| Achtemeier 1996 > Methods of Divination |
| Bottéro 1992 > Science derives from divination |
| Buccellati 1981 |
| Buccellati 2012 Coerenza |
| Bibliography | Abusch 2020 Corpus |
| Bottero 1974 Symptomes |
| Buccellati 1972 Beatitudini |
| Buccellati 1981 Wisdom |
| Cicero 0045 Divination |
| Deluty 2020 Prophecy |
| De Zorzi 2014 Summa Izbu |
| Fink 2017 Opposition |
| Furlani 1932 Sacrificio |
| Jeffers 2007 Interpreting Magic |
| Johnston 2019 Knowledge |
| Kitz 2003 Prophecy |
| Koch 2010 Strikes |
| Mander 2009 Religione |
| Maul 2007 Divination Culture |
| Maul 2018 Divination |
| Nissinen 2017 Ancient Prophecy |
| Nissinen 2019 Divination |
| Oppenheim 1964 Mesopotamia |
| Rochberg 1999 Empiricism |
| Rochberg 2014 Divination |
| Scurlock 2010 Prophecy Divination |
| Snell 2010 Religions |
| Ulanowski 2014 Mesopotamian Divination |
| Winitzer 2010 Divine Presence |
| Winitzer 2017 Divination |
| Notes | 9.1 |
| 9.6 |
| 10.1 |
| divination: Mesopotamia | 8. Excerpts | Frahm 2011 > Divination culture (Mesopotamia) |
| divination: types | 8. Excerpts | Bottéro 1992 > Distinction between inspired and deductive divination |
| divinatory economy | Bibliography | Sweek 1996 Dreams |
| divine | Bibliography | Arkhipov 2019 Zimri- Lim |
| Davis 2016 Relating |
| divine agency | Bibliography | Ermidoro 2019 Ritualized Meals |
| Gell 1998 Agency |
| Pongratz- Leisten 2011 Divine Agency |
| Pongratz- Leisten Sonik 2015 Materiality |
| Notes | 18.2 |
| divine anger | Bibliography | Anthonioz 2016 Deluge |
| Artus 2015 Moise |
| Bodi 2015 Agents |
| Charpin 2015 Defaite |
| Notes | 6.8 |
| 8.4 |
| 10.2 |
| 14.6 |
| divine beings | Bibliography | Schenker 1997 Monotheisme |
| divine decrees | Bibliography | Snell 2010 Religions |
| divine figures | Notes | 3.2 |
| divine images | Bibliography | Spieckermann 2007 Welt |
| divine intervention | Notes | 19.3 |
| divine justice | Bibliography | Cohen 2015 Problem Of Theodicy |
| Cohen 2015 Theodicy |
| Notes | 7.10 |
| divine kingship | Notes | 6.4 |
| divine knowledge | Bibliography | Reiner 1961 Etio Sages |
| divine law | Notes | 8.4 |
| divine names | Bibliography | Galoppin &al 2022 Naming |
| divine order | Bibliography | Lambert 2013 Creation Myths |
| divine plan | 8. Excerpts | Bottéro 1992 > The divine plan |
| divine presence | Bibliography | Winitzer 2010 Divine Presence |
| Notes | 7.7 |
| divine punishment | Bibliography | vander Toorn 1985 Sin Sanction |
| Volokhine 2015 Skin Diseases |
| diviner | Bibliography | Starr 1983 Diviner |
| divine repentance | Bibliography | Nihan 2015 Exces |
| divine sovereignty | Bibliography | Batto 1987 Sleeping God |
| divine speech | Bibliography | Anthonioz 2019 Divine Speech |
| Notes | 1.6 |
| 4.5 |
| 5.5 |
| 15.4 |
| 19.1 |
| divine will | Bibliography | Mathys 2015 Colere |
| Notes | 8.5 |
| divine word | Notes | 6.8 |
| divine wrath | Bibliography | Anthonioz 2016 Deluge |
| Bauks 2016 Repentance |
| Cohen 2015 Theodicy |
| de Pury 2016 Absence Colere |
| Durand 2016 Entre |
| Gonzalez 2015 Colere |
| Landolt 2016 Qohelet |
| Mathys 2015 Colere |
| Nihan 2015 Exces |
| Reiner 1982 Fürstenspiegel |
| Romer 2016 Y H W H |
| Ziegler 2016 Juste |
| divinities | Notes | 18.2 |
| divinity | Bibliography | Cohen 2018 Morality In Antiquity |
| divinization | 9. Critical reviews | Paolo Matthiae 2012 Culte |
| divinized geographical names | Notes | 6.4 |
| divinized kings | Bibliography | Matthiae 2012 Cult |
| Notes | 6.4 |
| 16.5 |
| Dn 12, 2 | Notes | 22.9 |
| Dn. 6, 17-25 | Notes | 7.10 |
| dôr ledôr (דּוֹר לְדוֹר: Hebrew) | Notes | 19.5 |
| doubt | Notes | 12.4 |
| drama of life | 8. Excerpts | Eliade 1958 > Plant symbolism and the drama of life |
| dream divination | Bibliography | Hamori 2018 Divination |
| dream-omina | Bibliography | Shupak 2006 Joseph |
| dreams | 8. Excerpts | Achtemeier 1996 > Dreams |
| Bibliography | Noegel 2001 Dreamsand Dream |
| Noegel 2007 Dreams |
| Pinker 2005 Daniel |
| Pongratz- Leisten 2010 Dreams |
| Sasson 1983 Mari |
| Shupak 2006 Joseph |
| Stefanini 1969 Enkidu |
| Sweek 1996 Dreams |
| Veldhuis 2001 Bilgames |
| Notes | 11.5 |
| dream-theophany | Bibliography | Lichtenstein 1969 Dream |
| δρώμενον (drómenon: Greek) | Notes | 7.1 |
| Dt. 10, 11-12 | Notes | 8.4 |
| Dt. 18, 10-12 | Notes | 9.6 |
| Dt 21, 1 | Notes | 22.9 |
| Dt. 24, 16 | Notes | 8.5 |
| Dt 26, 16 | Notes | 22.2 |
| Dt. 29, 3 | Notes | 11.4 |
| Dt. 6, 22 | Notes | 11.3 |
| duality | Notes | 7.5 |
| dullu (Akkadian) | Bibliography | Husken 2007 Rituals |
| Jacobsen 1977 Inuma |
| dullu (Akkadian) | Bibliography | Tenney 2017 Servility |
| Notes | 22.1 |
| dullu (Akkadian) | Notes | 22.1 |
| dumqu (Akkadian) | Notes | 7.10 |
| Dumuzi | Bibliography | Alster 1972 Dumuzi |
| Alster 2006 Dumuzi |
| Xella 2001 Quando |
| Notes | 18.3 |
| dur.an.ki (Sumerian) | Bibliography | Kang 2012 Eliade Duranki |
| Notes | 20.1 |
| Dūr-Šarrukīn | Bibliography | Worthington 2024 Sargon |
| dying god | Bibliography | Frankfort 1958 Dying God |
| Notes | 5.1 |
| dying gods | Bibliography | Xella 2014 Dieux |
| Notes | 4.3 |
| 5.1 |
| dynamic absolute | 8. Excerpts | Buccellati 2013 > “Beyondness” and “nullification” of the absolute |
| dynamic presence | Notes | 21.5 |
| dynamics of the absolute | 8. Excerpts | Buccellati 2013 > “Beyondness” and “nullification” of the absolute |
| Buccellati 2013 > Dynamics of the absolute; the “non-absolute” |
| dynamism | Notes | 5.1 |
| Ea/Enki | Notes | 6.4 |
| 6.9 |
| 7.8 |
| 7.10 |
| 11.2 |
| 13.10 |
| 13.11 |
| earthly paradise | 8. Excerpts | Eliade 1958 > Nostalgia for eternity |
| Earth-Mother | 8. Excerpts | Eliade 1958 > From primitive divinities to agricultural divinities |
| Ebla | 4. Themes | Rituals in the |
| 9. Critical reviews | Lorenzo Viganò 1995 Ebla I |
| Lorenzo Viganò 1995 Ebla II |
| Marco Bonechi 1989 Ebla |
| Paolo Matthiae 2012 Culte |
| Bibliography | Bonechi 1989 Ebla |
| Eb D A |
| Ebla |
| Schmidt 1991 Beneficent |
| Vigano 1995 Rituals |
| Vigano 2000 Rituals |
| Notes | 2.13 |
| 13.1 |
| 13.4 |
| 15.1 |
| 17.7 |
| 22.11 |
| ecclesiastical structures | Notes | 8.4 |
| é.dingir (Sumerian) = bīt ilim (Akkadian) | Notes | 20.2 |
| editorial board | 1. Introduction | Preface > The Editorial Board |
| E Document | Bibliography | Lichtenstein 1969 Dream |
| Egypt | Bibliography | Assmann 1998 Moses |
| Redford 2001 O E A E |
| Egyptian dreams | Bibliography | Shupak 2006 Joseph |
| Egyptian gods | Bibliography | Leitz 2002 Lexikon |
| Egyptian literature | Bibliography | Bricker 2001 Innocent |
| Egyptian religion | Bibliography | Buccellati 1961 Egyptian Religion |
| Buccellati 1966 Bibbia |
| Holland 2010 Gods |
| Sayce 1902 Religions |
| Snell 2010 Religions |
| Notes | 1.1 |
| 1.5 |
| 1.11 |
| 2.2 |
| 2.3 |
| 2.13 |
| El | 9. Critical reviews | Mark Smith 2001 Monotheism |
| Bibliography | Smith 2001 Origins |
| elaboration (phychology) | Bibliography | Boase 2016 Trauma |
| elementary experience | 4. Themes | Spirituality and Elementary Experience |
| Elide | I. The Argument | 6. History of the Discipline > Mircea Eliade |
| Elijah | Notes | 10.4 |
| 11.3 |
| 14.7 |
| Elisha | Notes | 10.4 |
| ĕlohîm (אֱלֹהִים: Hebrew) | Notes | 25.4 |
| Emar | Bibliography | Schmidt 1991 Beneficent |
| emergence of cities | Bibliography | Ur 2014 Households |
| emergence of religious thought | Bibliography | Cauvin 2000 Birth |
| Schmidt 2011 Costruirono |
| Trinkaus 1983 Shanidar |
| Notes | 6.2 |
| emergence of society | Bibliography | Hodder 2010 Emergence |
| Emesal šuilla-prayers | Bibliography | Shibata 2010 Suilla |
| emic | Bibliography | Rochberg 2014 Divination |
| Sasson 1983 Mari |
| Notes | 24.1 |
| -emic vs. -etic perspective | Bibliography | Buccellati 2006 Emic |
| empathy | 8. Excerpts | Buccellati 2014 Profondo |
| empire of Akkad | Bibliography | Foster 2015 Agade |
| Notes | 26.1 |
| empiricism | Bibliography | Rochberg 1999 Empiricism |
| Notes | 9.1 |
| emplacement | 8. Excerpts | Oppenheim 1964 > Why a Mesopotamian Religion Should Not Be Written |
| emptiness of the absolute | 8. Excerpts | Buccellati 2013 > Emptiness of the absolute in Buddhism |
| encyclopaedia | Bibliography | Redford 2001 O E A E |
| end of Mesopotamian world | Notes | 23.1 |
| Enheduana | Bibliography | Enheduana |
| Enḫeduanna | Notes | 15.3 |
| Enki | Notes | 6.2 |
| Enkidu | Bibliography | Buccellati 2020 Awilis |
| Stefanini 1969 Enkidu |
| Notes | 8.5 |
| Enkidu’s death | Notes | 15.3 |
| Enkidu’s process of civilization | Notes | 13.6 |
| 25.4 |
| Enki/Ea | Bibliography | Mander 1998 Prospettive |
| Enlil | Notes | 13.9 |
| 14.5 |
| 17.3 |
| 18.3 |
| enthronement | Bibliography | Muller 1937 Ritual |
| Vigano 2000 Rituals |
| enūma (Akkadian) | Notes | 17.3 |
| Enūma Anu Enlil | Bibliography | Rawlinson 1870 Venus |
| Reiner 1981 Enuma |
| Enūma elīš | 8. Excerpts | Buccellati 2013 > The absolute in the Enūma elīsh |
| Foster 2005 > Enūma ēliš |
| Bibliography | Dalley 2000 Myths |
| Kammerer Metzler 2012 Enuma |
| Parpola 1993 Tree |
| Weeks 2015 Myth Ritual |
| Notes | 5.2 |
| 6.2 |
| 8.3 |
| 9.1 |
| 16.5 |
| 17.3 |
| 17.4 |
| 17.7 |
| Enūma elīš | Notes | 17.7 |
| Enūma elīš | Notes | 18.1 |
| 21.2 |
| Enūma elīš | Notes | 21.2 |
| ephemeris | III. Utilities | 15. Archives > The ephemeris concept |
| Epic of Gilgamesh | 8. Excerpts | George 2003 |
| Epic of Gilgamesh | Bibliography | George 2000 Gilgamesh |
| George 2003 Gilgamesh |
| Pongratz- Leisten 2010 Dreams |
| Snell 2010 Religions |
| Notes | 6.6 |
| Epic of Gilgamesh | Notes | 11.7 |
| Epic of Gilgamesh | Notes | 14.5 |
| 22.8 |
| epic texts | Bibliography | Jacobsen 1976 Treasures |
| epiphanic dreams | Bibliography | Scheil 1913 Memoires |
| epiphany: personal vs. impersonal | 8. Excerpts | Eliade 1958 > Continuity from “primitives” to Christianity |
| Ereshkigal | Notes | 8.6 |
| 17.4 |
| Ereškigal | 8. Excerpts | Oppenheim 1964 > Is Tammuz a “type” of later gods? |
| Erra | Bibliography | Pongratz- Leisten 2010 Dreams |
| Notes | 1.6 |
| 6.4 |
| 7.4 |
| 11.5 |
| 12.2 |
| 17.4 |
| 18.3 |
| eschatology | 8. Excerpts | Achtemeier 1996 > Eschatology |
| Bibliography | Foster 2002 End |
| eṣemtu (Akkadian) | Notes | 22.8 |
| eṭemmu (Akkadian) | Notes | 8.6 |
| 22.8 |
| eternal returning | 8. Excerpts | Eliade 1958 > The moon and “eternal returning” |
| eternity | 8. Excerpts | Buccellati 2014 Time > The eternity |
| Eliade 1958 > Nostalgia for eternity |
| Notes | 3.5 |
| ethics | Bibliography | vander Toorn 1985 Sin Sanction |
| ethnogenesis | 8. Excerpts | Liverani 2005 > Ethogenesis |
| Notes | 2.14 |
| ethnogenesis of Proto-Israelites | 8. Excerpts | Liverani 2005 > Ethnogenesis of Proto-Israelites |
| etiology | Bibliography | Reiner 1961 Etio Sages |
| Etruscan religion | Bibliography | Snell 2010 Religions |
| Eucharist | Notes | 7.10 |
| euhemerism | Bibliography | Alphandery 1934 Evehemerisme |
| Notes | 6.3 |
| 6.4 |
| Euphratic | Bibliography | Whittaker 2008 Euphratic |
| evemerism | 8. Excerpts | Buccellati 2024 > On the meaning of evemerism |
| event | Notes | 4.2 |
| evil | 8. Excerpts | Achtemeier 1996 > Evil |
| Bibliography | Green 1984 Beneficent |
| Notes | 7.10 |
| 12.4 |
| Ex. 12, 29-34 | Notes | 11.3 |
| Ex. 13, 13 | Notes | 13.13 |
| Ex. 13, 2 | Notes | 13.13 |
| Ex. 14, 15-31 | Notes | 11.3 |
| Ex. 19, 3-8 | Notes | 11.2 |
| Ex. 20, 2 | Notes | 13.11 |
| Ex. 20, 8-11 | Notes | 12.5 |
| Ex. 22, 2 | Notes | 13.13 |
| Ex 23, 33-34 | Notes | 20.4 |
| Ex. 24, 12 | Notes | 8.1 |
| Ex. 31, 12-17 | Notes | 12.5 |
| Ex. 3, 1-6 | Notes | 11.2 |
| Ex. 3, 2 | Notes | 11.2 |
| Ex. 32, 11-14 | Notes | 14.6 |
| Ex. 32, 14 | Notes | 14.6 |
| Ex. 34, 1 | Notes | 8.4 |
| Ex. 7, 26-29 | Notes | 11.3 |
| excerpts | II. The Record | 8. Excerpts |
| exile | Bibliography | Buccellati 1960 Israeliti |
| Notes | 2.10 |
| 2.14 |
| 6.8 |
| 19.5 |
| exorcisms | 8. Excerpts | Oppenheim 1964 > Rituals |
| Bibliography | Mander 2009 Religione |
| Oppenheim 1964 Mesopotamia |
| Snell 2010 Religions |
| exorcist’s manual | Bibliography | Geller 2018 K A R 44 |
| experience | Bibliography | Faivre 1995 Ambiguita |
| Zerubavel 1991 Fine Line |
| Notes | 1.12 |
| 7.5 |
| expertise | 8. Excerpts | Buccellati 2024 > Expertise and sensitivity |
| explanatory proclamation | Notes | 21.2 |
| extended mind (Chalmers) | Bibliography | Lynch 2024 Ph D |
| extispicy | Bibliography | Fink 2017 Opposition |
| Johnston 2019 Knowledge |
| Koch 2010 Strikes |
| Maul 2018 Divination |
| Rutz 2014 Liver |
| Extispicy | Bibliography | Starr 1974 Extispicy |
| extispicy | Notes | 9.4 |
| 10.1 |
| Ez. 14 | Notes | 17.6 |
| Ez. 14, 12-23 | Notes | 8.5 |
| Ez. 18, 1-24 | Notes | 8.5 |
| Ez. 22, 30 | Notes | 14.6 |
| Ez. 37, 10 | Notes | 17.6 |
| Ez 37, 4-5 | Notes | 22.9 |
| Ezra | 8. Excerpts | Liverani 2005 > Epilogue |
| faith | 8. Excerpts | Achtemeier 1996 > Faith |
| Buccellati 2012 Coerenza |
| Buccellati 2024 > The personal culture of the scholar |
| Bibliography | Buccellati 1972 Teodicea |
| Buccellati 1973 Adapa |
| Piu X I I 1951 Discorso |
| Ratzinger 2004 Introduction |
| Von Soden 1985 Einfuhrungen |
| I. The Argument | 6. History of the Discipline > Scholarship and personal faith |
| Notes | 1.1 |
| 1.4 |
| 1.8 |
| 2.2 |
| 2.5 |
| 4.2 |
| 4.4 |
| 7.3 |
| 14.1 |
| faith and reason | Bibliography | J P I I 1998 Fides |
| false prophets | Bibliography | Huffmon 2012 False |
| Notes | 7.14 |
| fame | Bibliography | Piccin 2018 Mortality |
| family houshold | 9. Critical reviews | Mark Smith 2001 Monotheism |
| Farmer’s Instructions | Bibliography | Civil 1994 Farmer |
| fate | 4. Themes | Fate |
| 8. Excerpts | Bottéro 1992 > A passage challing Buccellati on fate |
| Buccellati 1981 |
| Buccellati 2012 Coerenza |
| Lambert 2013 > The decreeing of destinies |
| Bibliography | Buccellati 1972 Beatitudini |
| Buccellati 1973 Adapa |
| Buccellati 1981 Wisdom |
| Cornford 1957 Philosophy |
| Jestin 1976 Sumer |
| Lambert 2013 Creation Myths |
| Lawson 1994 Fate |
| Mander 1998 Prospettive |
| Snell 2010 Religions |
| Streck 2014 Wisdom |
| Notes | 3.1 |
| 5.3 |
| 14.5 |
| 24.4 |
| 25.2 |
| fate/destiny | 8. Excerpts | Oppenheim 1964 > Difference between polytheism and monotheism |
| Oppenheim 1964 > The meaning of Šimtu |
| faunal remains | Bibliography | Di Martino 2005 Archeozoologia |
| fear | Bibliography | Jacobsen 1963 Central Concerns |
| feasts | 8. Excerpts | Brelich 1976 > Feasts |
| female correspondence | Bibliography | Dossin 1967 Correspondance |
| Dossin 1978 Correspondance |
| Durand 1988 Archives |
| fertility dramas | Bibliography | Jacobsen 1975 Religious Drama |
| fertilizing divinity | 8. Excerpts | Eliade 1958 > Verticality |
| festivals | 8. Excerpts | Brelich 1976 > Feasts |
| Bibliography | Wegner 1981 Ishtar |
| finality | Notes | 1.1 |
| first art | 8. Excerpts | Cauvin 2000 > Woman and Bull |
| first cities | Bibliography | Liverani 2006 Uruk |
| First Dynasty of Babylon | Bibliography | Cohen 2015 Problem Of Theodicy |
| Cohen 2015 Theodicy |
| first religious forms | 8. Excerpts | Cauvin 2000 > A new religion |
| first sanctuaries | 8. Excerpts | Cauvin 2000 > A new religion |
| First Temple period | Bibliography | Knohl 1996 Prayer Temple |
| Fish-Man | Bibliography | Green 1986 Note |
| Fish-Woman | Bibliography | Green 1986 Note |
| flood | 8. Excerpts | Achtemeier 1996 > Flood |
| Bibliography | Anthonioz 2016 Deluge |
| F Kensky 1977 Atrahasis Genesis |
| Notes | 6.8 |
| food prohibitions | Bibliography | Ermidoro 2020 Animals |
| Force-Directed Graph | III. Utilities | MNI: Details > Graphical Representations - Force-Directed Graph |
| Force-Directed-Graph (MNI) | III. Utilities | 12. Multinodal Index > The Force-Directed Graph |
| foreign gods = idols | Notes | 7.13 |
| forgiveness | Bibliography | Marti 2015 Repentir |
| formal and functional analysis | Bibliography | Schwemer 2001 Wettergottgestalten |
| format revision | 1. Introduction | History of the project > 4. Format revisions |
| foundation figurines | Bibliography | Braun Holzinger 2013 Gotterdarstellung |
| founding personalities | 8. Excerpts | Buccellati 2024 > Founding personalities |
| Liverani 2005 > Founding personalities |
| Notes | 4.6 |
| ‘Four Banks | 1. Introduction | Preface > The “Four Banks” |
| fragmentation | Notes | 25.3 |
| fragmentation of the absolute | 8. Excerpts | Buccellati 2013 > Fragmentation of the absolute in polytheism |
| Frazer | I. The Argument | 6. History of the Discipline > J.G. Frazer |
| freedom | Bibliography | Bauks 2016 Repentance |
| Roberts 2002 Critical |
| Roberts 2002 Myth |
| Notes | 5.5 |
| 25.2 |
| free will | Notes | 25.2 |
| function | Bibliography | Feldt 2013narratology |
| Notes | 17.4 |
| functional symbolism | Bibliography | Facchini 2002 Origini |
| funerary beliefs | 8. Excerpts | Cauvin 2000 > A new religion |
| funerary customs | Bibliography | Vigano 2000 Rituals |
| funerary offerings | 8. Excerpts | Oppenheim 1964 > Ignorance of data |
| funerary practices | Bibliography | Schmidt 2011 Costruirono |
| Von Soden 1985 Einfuhrungen |
| Funerary rites | Notes | 1.5 |
| funerary rituals | Bibliography | Wissing 2012 Ritual |
| Notes | 13.14 |
| Fürstenspiegel | Bibliography | Reiner 1982 Fürstenspiegel |
| future | Bibliography | Maul 2007 Divination Culture |
| Ulanowski 2014 Mesopotamian Divination |
| ga’al (גָאַל: Hebrew) | Notes | 13.2 |
| gallû (Akkadian) | Notes | 8.6 |
| Garden of Eden | Notes | 6.8 |
| Geertz | Bibliography | Asad 1993 Religion Anthropological Category |
| Foster 1991 On Authorship |
| gematria | 8. Excerpts | Frahm 2011 > Gematria (Mesopotamia vs. Bible) |
| Gen. 1, 10 | Notes | 14.6 |
| Gen. 1, 25-3 | Notes | 8.5 |
| Gen. 1, 26 | Notes | 18.4 |
| Gen. 1, 28 | Notes | 14.6 |
| Gen. 15 | Notes | 11.2 |
| Gen. 1, 5 | Notes | 14.6 |
| Gen. 18, 1-15 | Notes | 11.2 |
| Gen. 18, 22-23 | Notes | 8.5 |
| Gen. 18, 23-32 | Notes | 14.6 |
| Gen 2, 17 | Notes | 25.4 |
| Gen. 2, 19 | Notes | 14.6 |
| Gen. 28, 10-15 | Notes | 11.5 |
| Gen. 3 | Bibliography | Smith 1963 Before |
| Notes | 8.5 |
| Gen. 3, 15 | Notes | 8.5 |
| Gen. 32, 23 | Notes | 11.2 |
| Gen. 32, 25-31 | Notes | 14.7 |
| Gen. 32, 26-33 | Notes | 7.10 |
| Gen 3, 5 | Notes | 25.4 |
| Gen 3, 6 | Notes | 25.4 |
| Gen 3, 7 | Notes | 25.4 |
| Gen. 40 | Notes | 11.6 |
| Gen. 41, 16 | Notes | 11.6 |
| Gen. 41, 8 | Notes | 11.6 |
| Gen. 4, 3-16 | Notes | 8.5 |
| gender of divinities | Bibliography | Asher Greve 2013 Goddesses |
| Notes | 18.1 |
| genealogies | 8. Excerpts | Liverani 2005 > Genealogies |
| Notes | 2.14 |
| generation | 8. Excerpts | Achtemeier 1996 > Generation |
| genesis | 8. Excerpts | Achtemeier 1996 > Genesis |
| Genesis | Bibliography | F Kensky 1977 Atrahasis Genesis |
| Notes | 6.8 |
| Genesis Rabbah | Bibliography | Neusner 1991 Confronting |
| genîza(h) (גניזה: Hebrew) | Notes | 21.5 |
| George | Notes | 14.2 |
| Georgia | 8. Excerpts | Buccellati 2014 Profondo |
| gestures | 8. Excerpts | Achtemeier 1996 > Gestures |
| Bibliography | Calabro 2013 Gestures |
| Goldman 1990 Gestures |
| Kipfer 2017 Emotions |
| Langdon 1919 Gesture |
| Notes | 15.2 |
| G/god(s) | 8. Excerpts | Balentine 2020 > G/god(s) |
| Gilgamesh | 8. Excerpts | Buccellati 1981 |
| George 2003 > Bilgamesh and the Netherworld |
| Bibliography | Abusch 2001 Gilgamesh |
| Buccellati 1981 Wisdom |
| Buccellati 2020 Awilis |
| Glassner |
| Veldhuis 2001 Bilgames |
| Notes | 7.10 |
| 11.2 |
| 11.5 |
| 22.8 |
| Gilgamesh, Enkidu | Notes | 7.10 |
| Girtabbulu | Notes | 8.6 |
| glyptics | Bibliography | Braun Holzinger 2013 Gotterdarstellung |
| Kelly Buccellati 1996 Seals |
| Gn 9, 29 | Notes | 22.9 |
| Goat-Fish | Bibliography | Green 1986 Note |
| God | 4. Themes | God and the gods: person vs. attributes |
| god | 8. Excerpts | Achtemeier 1996 > God |
| God | Bibliography | Buber 1937 Iandthou |
| god as a hero | 8. Excerpts | Cauvin 2000 > The religion of the bull |
| God as an I-speaker | 8. Excerpts | Buccellati 2007 > God as an “I”-speaker |
| god as judge | 8. Excerpts | Davis 2016 > Human-divine relationship in dingiršadabba prayers |
| god as Storm-god | 8. Excerpts | Cauvin 2000 > The religion of the bull |
| god: definition | 8. Excerpts | Bottéro 1992 > What is a god? |
| goddesses | Bibliography | Asher Greve 2013 Goddesses |
| God, image of | 8. Excerpts | Achtemeier 1996 > Image of God |
| gods | 4. Themes | God and the gods: person vs. attributes |
| Bibliography | Galoppin &al 2022 Naming |
| Notes | 1.1 |
| gods as heroes | 8. Excerpts | Jacobsen 1976 > Extended summary of {B}R/Jacobsen1976Treasures |
| gods as hypostasized attributes | 8. Excerpts | Buccellati 2024 > The gods as hypostasized attributes |
| gods as legion | 8. Excerpts | Jacobsen 1976 > Gods as legion |
| gods as parents | 8. Excerpts | Jacobsen 1976 > Extended summary of {B}R/Jacobsen1976Treasures |
| gods as providers of fertility | 8. Excerpts | Jacobsen 1976 > Extended summary of {B}R/Jacobsen1976Treasures |
| gods as rulers | 8. Excerpts | Jacobsen 1976 > Extended summary of {B}R/Jacobsen1976Treasures |
| gods: attributes | 8. Excerpts | Buccellati 2024 > Gods as attributes |
| gods’ attributes | Notes | 3.6 |
| 6.4 |
| gods (birth) | 8. Excerpts | Cauvin 2000 |
| gods: development | 8. Excerpts | Bottéro 1992 > Hypothesis regarding the development of gods |
| God’s features | 8. Excerpts | Buccellati 2007 > God’s features |
| God’s fidelity | 8. Excerpts | Buccellati 2012 Coerenza |
| gods’ images | Bibliography | Unger 1926 Gotterbild |
| God’s jealousy | Notes | 18.4 |
| God’s names | 8. Excerpts | Buccellati 2007 > God’s names |
| God’s presence | Notes | 21.3 |
| gods’ representation | Notes | 18.1 |
| gods’s symbols | Bibliography | Unger 1926 Gottersymbol |
| gods’ symbols and attributes | Notes | 18.3 |
| God’s will | Notes | 5.5 |
| God’s word | 8. Excerpts | Buccellati 2007 > God’s word |
| goldsmiths | Bibliography | Arkhipov 2019 Zimri- Lim |
| good | Bibliography | Green 1984 Beneficent |
| good fortune | 8. Excerpts | Jacobsen 1976 > Personal god |
| good gods | Bibliography | Snell 2010 Religions |
| grace | Bibliography | Bodi 2015 Agents |
| grammar | Bibliography | Cassirer 1946 Language |
| granular structure (scholarly debate) | Bibliography | Lynch 2024 Ph D |
| gratitude | Notes | 7.10 |
| grave goods | Bibliography | Wissing 2012 Ritual |
| Great Goddess(es) | 8. Excerpts | Eliade 1958 > From primitive divinities to agricultural divinities |
| great polarity | Notes | 3.1 |
| Greek religion | Bibliography | Snell 2010 Religions |
| Gudea | Bibliography | Arkhipov 2019 Zimri- Lim |
| Notes | 11.5 |
| guilt | 8. Excerpts | Achtemeier 1996 > Guilt |
| Notes | 4.4 |
| Haddu/Adda/Adad/Iškur/Teššub | Bibliography | Schwemer 2001 Wettergottgestalten |
| Hammurapi | Notes | 2.8 |
| 6.7 |
| 14.5 |
| 17.3 |
| HarperCollins Bible Dictionary | Bibliography | Achtemeier 1996 Harper |
| hattôrah wahammiṣewa (הַתּוֹרַה וַהַמִּצְוָה: Hebrew) | Notes | 8.4 |
| ḥāzôn (חָזוֹן: Hebrew) | Notes | 11.2 |
| heave offering | 8. Excerpts | Achtemeier 1996 > Heave offering |
| Hebrew sources | Bibliography | Sefaria |
| Hebrew wisdom | Bibliography | Albright 1960 Wisdom |
| Thomas 1960 Wisdom |
| hêkāl (הֵיכָָל: Hebrew) | Notes | 20.5 |
| Hellenistic period | Notes | 6.3 |
| he‘mîn (הֶאֱמִין: Hebrew) | Notes | 7.10 |
| ḥēn (חֵן: Hebrew) | Notes | 5.4 |
| henotheism | 8. Excerpts | Buccellati 2013 > Monotheism as “One-theism” |
| Bibliography | Buccellati 2012 Aten |
| Levine 2005 Assyrian Israelite Monotheism |
| Whatham 1899 Poly |
| hepatoscopy | Bibliography | Matthieu F O R T H Body |
| Notes | 9.4 |
| Heraclitus | Notes | 8.5 |
| hermeneutics | 1. Introduction | 1. Religion and spirituality > Hermeneutics |
| 4. Themes | Religion and spirituality > Hermeneutics |
5.Monographs
The absolute | Spirituality and religion > Hermeneutics |
| Hermeneutics: Mesopotamia > Judaism | 8. Excerpts | Frahm 2011 > Legacy of Mesopotamian hermeneutics to Judaism |
| hermeneutic tecniques | 8. Excerpts | Frahm 2011 > Hermeneutic techniques (Mesopotamia vs. Bible) |
| Herodotus | Notes | 19.5 |
| heroes | Bibliography | Jacobsen 1976 Treasures |
| ḥeṣed (חֶסֶד: Hebrew) | Notes | 7.11 |
| hidden gods | Bibliography | Xella 2001 Quando |
| hierogamy | 8. Excerpts | Eliade 1958 > Birth and creation |
| hierophanies: cosmic, biological and local | 8. Excerpts | Eliade 1958 > ToC of {B}R/Eliade1958Patterns |
| hierophany | 8. Excerpts | Eliade 1958 > Extended summary of {B}R/Eliade1958Patterns |
| Eliade 1958 > Modalities of the Sacred |
| Eliade 1958 > Sacred places |
| Bibliography | Kang 2012 Eliade Duranki |
| high-dimensional information | Bibliography | Lynch 2024 Ph D |
| hiqšā (הִקְשָׁה: Hebrew) | Notes | 7.10 |
| historical approach (Liverani) | 8. Excerpts | Liverani 2005 > Historical approach |
| historical moments | 8. Excerpts | Eliade 1958 > ToC of {B}R/Eliade1958Patterns |
| historicity | Bibliography | Keller 1956 Bible |
| Notes | 2.5 |
| 7.9 |
| 17.1 |
| historiography | Bibliography | Harsgor 1978 Annales |
| Lynch 2024 Ph D |
| history | 8. Excerpts | Jacobsen 1976 > History |
| 9. Critical reviews | Mario Liverani 2009 Oltre |
| Mark Smith 2001 Monotheism |
| Bibliography | Houck- Loomis 2018 Trauma |
| Liverani 2009 Oltre |
| Michalowski 1983 History |
| Pace 1978 Structuralism |
| Notes | 19.1 |
| 19.4 |
| 22.6 |
| history of religion | 8. Excerpts | Eliade 1958 > ToC of {B}R/Eliade1958Patterns |
| Notes | 2.7 |
| history of religions | 8. Excerpts | Brelich 1976 > History of religions |
| Bibliography | Frazer 1990 Golden |
| I. The Argument | 6. History of the Discipline |
| 6. History of the Discipline > Introduction |
| Notes | 2.1 |
| history of science | Bibliography | Rochberg 2014 Divination |
| history: project | 1. Introduction | History of the project |
| Hittite culture | Bibliography | H P M |
| Hittite rituals | 9. Critical reviews | Lorenzo Viganò 1995 Ebla II |
| hôdî (הוֹדִי: Hebrew) | Notes | 7.10 |
| holiness | 8. Excerpts | Achtemeier 1996 > Holiness |
| Bibliography | Pongratz Leisten 2015 Translatability Holiness |
| Notes | 3.7 |
| holistic approach | 8. Excerpts | Eliade 1958 > Extended summary of {B}R/Eliade1958Patterns |
| hollow months | 4. Themes | Time and Calendars in Mesopotamia |
| hominids | 8. Excerpts | Buccellati 2014 Profondo |
| homousios | Notes | 3.3 |
| horoscopes | Bibliography | Albani 2000 Horoscopes |
| Allegro 1968 D J D 5 |
| Mander 2009 Religione |
| Notes | 9.6 |
| Hos. 6, 6 | Notes | 13.2 |
| households | Bibliography | Ur 2014 Households |
| human agency | Bibliography | Galoppin &al 2022 Naming |
| human-divine relationship | 8. Excerpts | Davis 2016 > Human-divine relationship in Biblical laments |
| Davis 2016 > Human-divine relationship in dingiršadabba prayers |
| Davis 2016 > Human-divine relationship in šuilla prayers |
| human fate | Bibliography | Xella 2001 Quando |
| human-God relations | Bibliography | de Pury 2016 Absence Colere |
| human initiative | Notes | 1.2 |
| humanity | Bibliography | Pyrke 2016 Religion Humanity |
| humanization | 8. Excerpts | Jacobsen 1976 > Nature |
| Bibliography | Buccellati 2020 Awilis |
| humanization of art | 8. Excerpts | Cauvin 2000 > A dynamic drama: suffering and death |
| human nature | Bibliography | Smith 1963 Before |
| human-world relations | Bibliography | de Pury 2016 Absence Colere |
| Humbaba/Huwawa | Notes | 6.2 |
| 7.10 |
| 9.2 |
| humor in cuneiform wisdom texts | Bibliography | Foster 1974 Humor |
| hurbanization | Bibliography | Buccellati 2020 Awilis |
| Hurrian language | Bibliography | Laroche 1980 Glossaire |
| Hurrian religious practices | Bibliography | Buccellati Kelly Buccellati 2005 Hurrian |
| Hurrians | 8. Excerpts | Pongratz-Leisten 2015 > The Hurrians in Urkeš |
| hydol | 8. Excerpts | Achtemeier 1996 > Hydol |
| hymn | 8. Excerpts | Achtemeier 1996 > Hymn |
| hymns | Bibliography | Lenzi 2010 Invoking |
| Hymns to temples | Notes | 20.2 |
| Hymn to Enlil | Notes | 8.3 |
| Hymn to Shamash | Notes | 8.4 |
| hyphenation | 8. Excerpts | Pongratz-Leisten 2015 > The Takultu-Ritual and syncretism in Assyria |
| I | Bibliography | Buber 1937 Iandthou |
| iconography | Bibliography | Arkhipov 2019 Zimri- Lim |
| Asher Greve 2013 Goddesses |
| Braun Holzinger 2013 Gotterdarstellung |
| Spieckermann 2007 Welt |
| Notes | 18.1 |
| 18.2 |
| 18.3 |
| ideal absolute | 8. Excerpts | Buccellati 2013 > “Ideal” absolute and Idealism |
| idealism | 8. Excerpts | Buccellati 2013 > “Ideal” absolute and Idealism |
| ideological landscape | Bibliography | Buccellati Kelly Buccellati 2009 Temple |
| ideology | 8. Excerpts | Pongratz-Leisten 2015 |
| Bibliography | Pongratz- Leisten 2015 Ideology |
| Roberts 2002 Critical |
| Roberts 2002 Myth |
| ideology and religion | Bibliography | Cicero 0045 Deorum |
| idolatry | Bibliography | Faur 1978 Biblical Idolatry |
| Kaufmann 1951 Idolatry |
| Notes | 18.3 |
| idols | 8. Excerpts | Oppenheim 1964 > Unease about Idols |
| Bibliography | Assmann 1998 Moses |
| Beard 1990 Pagan |
| Igigi | Notes | 6.2 |
| ignorance | 8. Excerpts | Oppenheim 1964 > Why a Mesopotamian Religion Should Not Be Written |
| ignorance of data | 8. Excerpts | Oppenheim 1964 > Ignorance of data |
| illness | 9. Critical reviews | Lorenzo Viganò 1995 Ebla II |
| Bibliography | Vigano 2000 Rituals |
| illumination | 8. Excerpts | Buccellati 2024 > ‘Illumination’, revelation and intuition |
| ilum (Akkadian) | Notes | 5.2 |
| ilūtum (Akkadian) | Notes | 5.2 |
| image of God | 8. Excerpts | Achtemeier 1996 > Image of God |
| imaginary spaces | Bibliography | Galoppin &al 2022 Naming |
| immanence | Bibliography | Rochberg 2011 Heavens Gods |
| impersonal absolute | 8. Excerpts | Buccellati 2013 > “Impersonal” vs. “personal” absolute |
| Inanna | Notes | 14.2 |
| 18.3 |
| Inanna/Ishtar | Notes | 6.4 |
| 14.2 |
| 15.3 |
| Inanna’s dedicatory inscriptions | Bibliography | Verderame 2019 Text |
| Inanna’s descent | Notes | 19.1 |
| incantations | Bibliography | Lambert 1968 Myth Ritual |
| incarnation | 8. Excerpts | Eliade 1958 > Continuity from “primitives” to Christianity |
| Notes | 7.9 |
| 25.3 |
| incineration | Bibliography | Glassner 2009 Invention |
| Notes | 13.2 |
| indeterminate future | Notes | 16.6 |
| Indian religions | Bibliography | Snell 2010 Religions |
| individual laments | 8. Excerpts | Davis 2016 > Human-divine relationship in Biblical laments |
| individual religion | 8. Excerpts | Oppenheim 1964 > Social Stratification |
| inequality | Bibliography | Flannery 2012 Temples Inequality |
| inference | Notes | 7.7 |
| influence | Notes | 2.3 |
| information | Bibliography | Lynch 2024 Ph D |
| inner-referential” interpretation | Bibliography | Lynch 2024 Ph D |
| inner-referentiality | Bibliography | Lynch 2024 Ph D |
| Innocent suffering | Bibliography | Bricker 2001 Innocent |
| innumerability | 4. Themes | Innumerability |
| inspiration | 8. Excerpts | Achtemeier 1996 > Inspiration |
| Notes | 6.4 |
| institution | Notes | 8.5 |
| 10.5 |
| institutions as organic whole | 8. Excerpts | Buccellati 2024 > Treating institutions as organic wholes |
| intangible and invisible presence | Notes | 7.6 |
| intellectual advancement | 8. Excerpts | Eliade 1958 > Agriculture and intellectual advancement |
| intellectual argument | Bibliography | Lynch 2024 Ph D |
| intellectual prosthetic | Bibliography | Lynch 2024 Ph D |
| intelligence | Bibliography | Lynch 2024 Ph D |
| intentionality of the absolute | 8. Excerpts | Buccellati 2013 > Dynamics of the absolute; the “non-absolute” |
| intercalation | Bibliography | Ermidoro 2017 Time |
| International Age | Bibliography | Snell 2010 Religions |
| interplanarity | 1. Introduction | Digital dimension > Interplanarity |
| interpretation | Bibliography | Lynch 2024 Ph D |
| interpretation of dreams | Bibliography | Noegel 2007 Dreams |
| interpretation: phenomena | Bibliography | Lynch 2024 Ph D |
| interpretative methodology | Bibliography | Albright 1940 A N Ereligion |
| intransitive | Notes | 7.3 |
| intransitiveness | 8. Excerpts | Bottéro 1992 > Intransitiveness |
| Jacobsen 1976 > Intransitiveness |
| intransitivity | 4. Themes | Transitivity, intransitivity |
| 8. Excerpts | Buccellati 2024 > On transitivity and intransitivity |
| Bibliography | Jacobsen 1970 Formative |
| intuition | 8. Excerpts | Buccellati 2024 > ‘Illumination’, revelation and intuition |
| Eliade 1958 > The moon and pattern |
| Bibliography | Buber 1937 Iandthou |
| Notes | 1.6 |
| 22.11 |
| invention | Bibliography | Buccellati 2014 Time |
| invention of the conquest | 8. Excerpts | Liverani 2005 > Invention of the Conquest |
| invention of the judges | 8. Excerpts | Liverani 2005 > Invention of the Judges |
| invention of the Law (Israel) | 8. Excerpts | Liverani 2005 > Invention of the Law |
| invention of the patriarchs | 8. Excerpts | Liverani 2005 > Invention of the Patriarchs |
| invention of the Solomonic Temple | 8. Excerpts | Liverani 2005 > Invention of the Solomonic Temple |
| invention of the united monarchy (Israel) | 8. Excerpts | Liverani 2005 > Invention of the United Monarchy |
| invocation | Bibliography | Lenzi 2010 Invoking |
| Notes | 8.1 |
| Iranian religion | Bibliography | Snell 2010 Religions |
| Is. 11 | Notes | 17.6 |
| Is 1, 11-20 | Notes | 22.2 |
| Is 26, 19 | Notes | 22.9 |
| Is. 40, 3 | Notes | 10.6 |
| Is. 44, 28 | Notes | 17.6 |
| Is. 45, 1-7 | Notes | 17.6 |
| Is. 49, 15 | Notes | 14.6 |
| Is. 53, 4-5 | Notes | 14.6 |
| Is 66, 1-2 | Notes | 20.5 |
| Is. 7, 16-17 | Notes | 17.6 |
| Is 8, 19 | Notes | 22.9 |
| Is. 9, 11 | Notes | 14.6 |
| Isaiah’s calling | Notes | 7.9 |
| Ishtar | Bibliography | Wegner 1981 Ishtar |
| Notes | 3.6 |
| 7.10 |
| 11.2 |
| 13.10 |
| 13.11 |
| Ishum | Notes | 11.5 |
| Israel | 4. Themes | Rituals in the |
| 8. Excerpts | Achtemeier 1996 > Israel |
| Davis 2016 |
| Gammie, Perdue 1990 |
| Xella 2014 |
| 9. Critical reviews | Mario Liverani 2009 Oltre |
| Mark Smith 2001 Monotheism |
| Bibliography | Liverani 2009 Oltre |
| Notes | 12.2 |
| Israel (history) | 8. Excerpts | Liverani 2005 |
| Israelite monotheism | Bibliography | Levine 2005 Assyrian Israelite Monotheism |
| Israelite prayer | 8. Excerpts | Davis 2016 > Extended summary of {B}R/Davis2016Relating |
| Israel tribal league | Bibliography | Freedman 1975 Early |
| ittu (Akkadian) | Notes | 11.3 |
| izbu (Akkadian) | Notes | 11.3 |
| Jacobsen | I. The Argument | 6. History of the Discipline > Thorkild Jacobsen |
| Jacob’s struggle with God | Notes | 14.7 |
| Jb 19, 25-26 | Notes | 22.9 |
| Jd. 10, 10-16 | Notes | 14.6 |
| jealousy | Notes | 7.11 |
| Jer. 11, 18-23 | Notes | 7.10 |
| Jer. 15, 10 | Notes | 11.5 |
| Jer. 1, 6 | Notes | 11.5 |
| Jer. 18 | Notes | 7.10 |
| Jer. 19, 1-20 | Notes | 7.10 |
| Jer. 20, 7-18 | Notes | 7.10 |
| Jer. 20, 8-9 | Notes | 11.5 |
| Jer 26, 18 | Notes | 20.5 |
| Jer. 31, 29-30 | Notes | 8.5 |
| Jer. 37, 1-38, 13 | Notes | 7.10 |
| Jer. 5, 1 | Notes | 14.6 |
| Jer 6, 20 | Notes | 22.2 |
| Jer 7, 1-4 | Notes | 20.5 |
| Jer. 7, 4.10 | Notes | 13.15 |
| Jeremiah | Notes | 12.4 |
| 15.3 |
| Jesus | Bibliography | Batto 1987 Sleeping God |
| Notes | 22.9 |
| Jewish encycplopedia | Bibliography | Jewish_encyclopedia |
| Jewish mysticism | Notes | 14.7 |
| Jn 2, 19-21 | Notes | 20.6 |
| Job | Bibliography | Buccellati 2020 Job |
| Notes | 12.3 |
| 12.4 |
| Job. 1, 6 | Notes | 8.6 |
| Joel 3, 1 | Notes | 11.5 |
| John 1, 23 | Notes | 10.6 |
| Jos. 5, 15 | Notes | 11.2 |
| Joseph | Bibliography | Shupak 2006 Joseph |
| Joseph’s interpretation of Pharaoh’s dreams | Notes | 11.6 |
| Josh. 8, 32 | Notes | 17.7 |
| Josh. 8, 34 | Notes | 17.7 |
| Josh. 8, 35 | Notes | 17.7 |
| judge | Notes | 8.4 |
| judges | 8. Excerpts | Liverani 2005 > Invention of the Judges |
| justice | 8. Excerpts | Achtemeier 1996 > Justice |
| KAR 44 | Bibliography | Geller 2018 K A R 44 |
| karābu (Akkadian) | Notes | 7.12 |
| KASKAL.KUR | Bibliography | Buccellati Kelly Buccellati 2005 Hurrian |
| Kelly Buccellati 2002 Unterwelt |
| Kassites | Bibliography | Cohen 2015 Problem Of Theodicy |
| Cohen 2015 Theodicy |
| kerygma | 8. Excerpts | Achtemeier 1996 > Kerygma |
| ketûbîm (כְתוֹבִים: Hebrew) | Notes | 12.6 |
| key-symbols: male and female | 8. Excerpts | Cauvin 2000 > A new religion |
| Khabur (river) | Notes | 6.4 |
| Khamian phase | 8. Excerpts | Cauvin 2000 > Symbols and symbolism |
| Khorsabad | Bibliography | Worthington 2024 Sargon |
| kibrāt arba’īm (Akkadian) | Notes | 2.13 |
| kidemûtē-nu (כִּדְמוּתֵנוּ: Hebrew) | Notes | 18.4 |
| king | 8. Excerpts | Oppenheim 1964 > Social Stratification |
| Notes | 16.5 |
| king as divinity | 8. Excerpts | Pongratz-Leisten 2015 > The “Divinity” of the King |
| kingdom of God | Notes | 4.4 |
| king/g(G)od(s) as shepherd | Bibliography | Westenholz 2004 Shepherd |
| king of the four edges/banks of the world | Notes | 26.1 |
| kingship | Bibliography | Mander 2009 Religione |
| Notes | 16.5 |
| kingship and religion | 8. Excerpts | Pongratz-Leisten 2015 > Kingship and religion |
| kippur (כִפֻּר: Hebrew) | Notes | 13.13 |
| kišpū (Akkadian) | Bibliography | Buccellati Kelly Buccellati 2005 Hurrian |
| Schmidt 1991 Beneficent |
| Tsukimoto 1985 Totenpflege |
| kišpū (Akkadian) | Notes | 13.9 |
| 22.8 |
| kišpū (Akkadian) | Notes | 22.8 |
| kispum | 9. Critical reviews | Paolo Matthiae 2012 Culte |
| knowledge | 8. Excerpts | Achtemeier 1996 > Knowledge |
| knowledge of good and evil | Bibliography | Smith 1963 Before |
| Kore/Persephone | Bibliography | Xella 2001 Quando |
| kūbu (Akkadian) | Notes | 8.6 |
| kudurrus | Bibliography | Cohen 2015 Problem Of Theodicy |
| Cohen 2015 Theodicy |
| Kuliltu | Bibliography | Green 1986 Note |
| Kulul(l)u | Bibliography | Green 1986 Note |
| Notes | 8.6 |
| Kumarbi | Bibliography | Buccellati Kelly Buccellati 2005 Hurrian |
| Buccellati Kelly Buccellati 2007 Heaven |
| Buccellati Kelly Buccellati 2009 Temple |
| Kumma | Bibliography | Atac 2004 Underworld |
| Kummā’s dream | Bibliography | Loktionov 2016 V A T 10057 |
| Notes | 11.5 |
| Kuntillet ‘Ajrud | 9. Critical reviews | Mark Smith 2001 Monotheism |
| Kuntillet Ajrud’s vase | Notes | 18.4 |
| Kuntillet cAjrud | Bibliography | Merlo 1994 Asherah |
| kur.nu.gi (Sumerian) = māt la târim (Akkadian) | Notes | 22.8 |
| kyriarchy | Bibliography | Popa 2016 Agency |
| labān appi (Akkadian) | Bibliography | Gruber 1975 Akkadian |
| laban āppi (Akkadian) | Notes | 15.2 |
| labor | Bibliography | Flannery 2012 Temples Inequality |
| laham (Protoeuphratian) | Notes | 6.2 |
| Lahar | Notes | 6.4 |
| lahar (Protoeuphratian) | Notes | 6.2 |
| Lam. 5, 19-22 | Notes | 14.6 |
| lamâ sabahtāni (Hebrew/Aramaic) | Notes | 12.4 |
| lamassu (Akkadian) | Notes | 8.6 |
| lamentations | 8. Excerpts | Achtemeier 1996 > Lamentations |
| Lamentations | 8. Excerpts | Davis 2016 > Human-divine relationship in Biblical laments |
| lamentations | 8. Excerpts | Oppenheim 1964 > Is Tammuz a “type” of later gods? |
| Bibliography | Davis 2016 Relating |
| Lenzi 2010 Invoking |
| Lamentations | Notes | 12.4 |
| language | 8. Excerpts | Buccellati 2014 Profondo |
| Buccellati 2014 Time > Language |
| Bibliography | Buccellati 2014 Time |
| Cassirer 1946 Language |
| Notes | 1.1 |
| 6.8 |
| law | 8. Excerpts | Achtemeier 1996 > Law |
| Bibliography | Mendenhall 1975 Conflict |
| Notes | 4.4 |
| law and commandments | Notes | 8.4 |
| Law (Israel) | 8. Excerpts | Liverani 2005 > Invention of the Law |
| lecanomancy | Bibliography | Pettinato 1966 Lecanomancy |
| Winitzer 2010 Divine Presence |
| Notes | 9.4 |
| 9.5 |
| lectio divina (Latin) | Notes | 21.5 |
| legislator | Notes | 8.4 |
| legitimation | 8. Excerpts | Pongratz-Leisten 2015 |
| legitimation of political power | Bibliography | Liverani 2017 Assyria |
| λεγόμενον (legómenon: Greek) | Notes | 7.1 |
| leqaddišô (לְקַדְּשֹׁו: Hebrew) | Notes | 12.5 |
| Letter to Assurbanipal | Notes | 17.6 |
| Lev. 11, 45 | Notes | 13.11 |
| Lev. 14 | Notes | 13.13 |
| Lev. 16, 9-10 | Notes | 13.13 |
| Lev. 19, 2 | Notes | 13.11 |
| 13.13 |
| Lev. 22, 33 | Notes | 13.11 |
| Lev. 25, 38 | Notes | 13.11 |
| Lev. 26 | Notes | 13.13 |
| Lev. 26, 45 | Notes | 13.11 |
| Leviticus | Bibliography | Geller 1980 Incantations |
| Notes | 22.11 |
| life | 8. Excerpts | Eliade 1958 > Plant symbolism and the drama of life |
| Lilit | Notes | 8.6 |
| lilû (Akkadian) | Notes | 8.6 |
| limits (research) | Bibliography | Lynch 2024 Ph D |
| linear index | III. Utilities | MNI: Details > Linear vs. Multinodal Indices |
| linear indices | III. Utilities | 11. Linear Indices |
| lire’ôt mā iqrā’ lô (לִרְאֹ֖ות מַה־יִּקְרָא־לֹ֑ו: Hebrew) | Notes | 14.6 |
| literacy | Notes | 21.1 |
| literary expression | Notes | 26.3 |
| literary inventories | Bibliography | Cohen 2018 Morality In Antiquity |
| literary traditions | Bibliography | Lenzi 2010 Invoking |
| literature | Bibliography | Hatinen 2017 Boat |
| Lambert 1957 Ancestors |
| Lambert 1968 Myth Ritual |
| Lambert 2013 Creation Myths |
| Notes | 21.2 |
| liver | Bibliography | Matthieu F O R T H Body |
| Notes | 9.4 |
| liver clay models | Bibliography | Rutz 2014 Liver |
| Notes | 9.4 |
| living God | 8. Excerpts | Buccellati 2007 > Living God |
| Buccellati 2012 Coerenza |
| Livy | Notes | 19.5 |
| L/lamaštu (Akkadian) | Notes | 8.6 |
| logic | Bibliography | Cassirer 1946 Language |
| Logos | 8. Excerpts | Eliade 1958 > Continuity from “primitives” to Christianity |
| longue durée | Bibliography | Harsgor 1978 Annales |
| Notes | 2.8 |
| love | 8. Excerpts | Buccellati 2013 > Love |
| luck | 8. Excerpts | Oppenheim 1964 > Mesopotamian ‘Psychology’ |
| Ludlul | Bibliography | Oshima 2012 Tablets |
| Ludlul bel nemeqi | Bibliography | Buccellati 2020 Job |
| Ludlul bēl nēmeqi | Bibliography | Oshima 2014 Sufferers |
| Pongratz- Leisten 2010 Dreams |
| Ludlul bel nemeqi | Bibliography | Ziegler 2016 Juste |
| luḥōt ha’eben (לֻחֹת הַאֶבֶן: Hebrew) | Notes | 8.1 |
| luḥōt ha‘eda (לֻחֹת הָעֵדָה: Hebrew) | Notes | 8.4 |
| Lv 16 | Notes | 21.2 |
| LXX | Bibliography | L X X |
| N V |
| V L |
| Maccabees | Notes | 15.3 |
| macrocosm | Bibliography | Davila 2002 Macrocosm |
| magic | 8. Excerpts | Achtemeier 1996 > Magic and Divination |
| Bibliography | Abusch 2002 Witchcraft |
| Abuschvd Toorn 1999 Magic |
| Buber 1937 Iandthou |
| Cicero 0045 Divination |
| Jeffers 2007 Interpreting Magic |
| Mander 2009 Religione |
| Oates 1978 Religion |
| Oppenheim 1964 Mesopotamia |
| Rochberg 2014 Divination |
| Schwemer 2011 Magic |
| Von Soden 1985 Einfuhrungen |
| Ziegler 2016 Juste |
| Notes | 4.2 |
| 9.1 |
| 10.1 |
| 13.2 |
| 13.7 |
| 13.9 |
| 13.12 |
| magical deposits | Bibliography | Hodder 2010 Emergence |
| magic and rituals | 4. Themes | Rituals in the > 2.1 Chapter 13: Magic and rituals for the individual |
| magic (synpathetic and analogic) | 8. Excerpts | Oppenheim 1964 > Rituals |
| male’āke (מַלְאָךְ: Hebrew) | Notes | 8.6 |
| man : god | 8. Excerpts | Oppenheim 1964 > Relationship between man and god |
| manifestation of the absolute/divine | Notes | 19.1 |
| man in Mesopotamia | Bibliography | Buccellati 2020 Awilis |
| man of faith | Bibliography | Buccellati 1973 Adapa |
| Notes | 1.8 |
| man’s creation myths | Notes | 11.2 |
| manual of sacrificial procedures | Bibliography | Foxvog 1989 Manual |
| mapping | Bibliography | Galoppin &al 2022 Naming |
| maqlû (Akkadian) | Bibliography | Abusch 2002 Witchcraft |
| maqlû (Akkadian) | Bibliography | Meier 1967 Maqlu |
| maqlû (Akkadian) | Notes | 13.10 |
| Marduk | 8. Excerpts | Frahm 2011 > Theological statements |
| Bibliography | Durand 1993 Combat |
| Jacobsen 1968 Battle |
| Lambert 1975 Pantheon |
| Notes | 5.2 |
| 6.3 |
| 6.4 |
| 13.10 |
| 13.11 |
| 17.3 |
| 21.2 |
| Marduk and Demons | 8. Excerpts | Frahm 2011 > Theological statements |
| Bibliography | Lambert 1956 Marduk |
| Marduk’s 50 names | Notes | 17.1 |
| Mari | Bibliography | Arkhipov 2019 Zimri- Lim |
| Deluty 2020 Prophecy |
| Lafont 1984 Adad |
| Lafont 1999 Mari |
| Sasson 1983 Mari |
| Schmidt 1991 Beneficent |
| Notes | 6.6 |
| 10.7 |
| mār šipri (Akkadian) | Bibliography | De Pietri 2022 Messengers |
| Notes | 13.11 |
| mārū ugārim (Akkadian) | Notes | 22.7 |
| marzeah | 9. Critical reviews | Paolo Matthiae 2012 Culte |
| marzēaḥ (Hebrew) | Bibliography | Schmidt 1991 Beneficent |
| Masada | Bibliography | Martone 1997 Ben Sira |
| mašmaššu (Akkadian) | Bibliography | Schwemer 2011 Magic |
| Masoretic Text (MT) | Notes | 2.6 |
| Mastema | Bibliography | Hamidovic 2015 Mastema |
| matrix | Notes | 2.3 |
| meaning | Bibliography | Yalom 2012 Love |
| mediation | Notes | 16.3 |
| medicine | Bibliography | Suddick 1990 Historical |
| meditation | Notes | 12.1 |
| Mediterranean religions | Bibliography | Tiresias |
| Notes | 1.1 |
| melammu (Akkadian) | Bibliography | Atac 2007 Melammu |
| melammu (Akkadian) | Notes | 5.2 |
| 7.10 |
| melammu (Akkadian) | Notes | 7.10 |
| Memex (program) | Bibliography | Lynch 2024 Ph D |
| memory | Bibliography | Assmann 1998 Moses |
| Buccellati 2004 Second |
| Lynch 2024 Ph D |
| Notes | 2.14 |
| mental maps | Bibliography | Galoppin &al 2022 Naming |
| mercy | 8. Excerpts | Achtemeier 1996 > Mercy |
| Mesopotamia | 4. Themes | Fate |
| Time and Calendars in Mesopotamia |
| 8. Excerpts | Davis 2016 |
| Gammie, Perdue 1990 |
| Bibliography | Kitz 2007 Curses |
| Notes | 2.13 |
| Mesopotamia and modern society | 8. Excerpts | Buccellati 2024 > Links between Mesopotamia and current society |
| Mesopotamia and the Bible | 8. Excerpts | Buccellati 2024 > Dependence of the Bible on Mesopotamia |
| Mesopotamia gods | Bibliography | Jacobsen 1976 Treasures |
| Mesopotamia (Greek etymology) | Notes | 26.1 |
| Mesopotamian apocalypse | Notes | 17.6 |
| Mesopotamian art | Bibliography | Doak 2006 Justice |
| Machinist 2014 Anthropomorphism |
| Nadali 2013 Ritual Art |
| Mesopotamian chronology | Bibliography | Gasche 1998 Chronology |
| Mesopotamian civilization | Notes | 6.1 |
| Mesopotamian creation | Bibliography | Jahn 2013 Creation |
| Notes | 1.7 |
| Mesopotamian ‘creation’ | Notes | 19.1 |
| Mesopotamian cultic practices | Notes | 13.4 |
| Mesopotamian culture | Bibliography | Moscati 1997 Imperi |
| Mesopotamian deities | Bibliography | A M G G |
| Hundley 2013 Examination |
| Schwemer 2001 Wettergottgestalten |
| Wegner 1981 Ishtar |
| Mesopotamian demons | Bibliography | Black 1992 Gods |
| Mesopotamian divination | Bibliography | Annus 2010 Divination |
| Jacobsen 1963 Ancient |
| Notes | 9.1 |
| Mesopotamian dreams | Bibliography | Butler 1998 Dreams |
| Mesopotamian flood | Notes | 7.10 |
| 19.1 |
| Mesopotamian gods | Bibliography | Black 1992 Gods |
| Mesopotamian heritage | Bibliography | Melammu |
| Mesopotamian hermeneutics | 8. Excerpts | Frahm 2011 > Mesopotamian hermeneutics (cultural setting) |
| Bibliography | Frahm 2018 Hermeneutics |
| Mesopotamian history | Notes | 2.13 |
| Mesopotamian incantations | Bibliography | Van Dijk 1985 Y O S 11 |
| Mesopotamian king as sage | 8. Excerpts | Gammie, Perdue 1990 > Sages in Mesopotamian court; the king |
| Mesopotamian King Lists | Bibliography | Michalowski 2012 King |
| Mesopotamian kingship | Bibliography | Frankfort 1948 Kingship |
| Mesopotamian kings’ lists | Notes | 19.2 |
| Mesopotamian ‘Lamentations’ | Notes | 19.1 |
| Mesopotamian literature | Bibliography | Gabbay 2020 Thanksgiving |
| Lambert 1958 Morals |
| Machinist 2014 Anthropomorphism |
| Verderame 2006 Calendrier |
| Notes | 12.3 |
| Mesopotamian magic | Notes | 13.7 |
| Mesopotamian man | Bibliography | Buccellati 2020 Awilis |
| Mesopotamian mythology | Notes | 17.4 |
| Mesopotamian myths | Bibliography | Dalley 2000 Myths |
| Mesopotamian politics | Bibliography | Buccellati 2013 Origini |
| Notes | 2.10 |
| Mesopotamian prayer | 8. Excerpts | Davis 2016 > Extended summary of {B}R/Davis2016Relating |
| Mesopotamian psychology | 8. Excerpts | Oppenheim 1964 > Mesopotamian ‘Psychology’ |
| Mesopotamian reasoning | Bibliography | Bottero 1992 Reasoning |
| Mesopotamian religion | Bibliography | Buccellati 1966 Bibbia |
| Buccellati 1972 Beatitudini |
| Holland 2010 Gods |
| Jacobsen 1976 Treasures |
| Lynch 2024 Ph D |
| Mander 2009 Religione |
| Moscati 1997 Imperi |
| Oppenheim 1964 Mesopotamia |
| Sayce 1902 Religions |
| Snell 2010 Religions |
| Von Soden 1985 Einfuhrungen |
| Notes | 1.1 |
| 1.11 |
| 2.2 |
| 2.3 |
| 2.5 |
| 2.7 |
| 2.13 |
| 6.1 |
| 10.1 |
| 10.7 |
| 12.2 |
| Mesopotamian religion (companion website) | Bibliography | Lynch 2024 Ph D |
| Mesopotamian religion: definition | 8. Excerpts | Jacobsen 1976 > “Mesopotamian” |
| Mesopotamian religion (history) | 8. Excerpts | Jacobsen 1976 |
| Mesopotamian representation of gods | Bibliography | Herles 2006 Gotterdarstellungen |
| Mesopotamian rituals | Bibliography | Van Dijk 1985 Y O S 11 |
| Mesopotamian studies | I. The Argument | 6. History of the Discipline > Mesopotamian studies |
| Mesopotamian symbols | Bibliography | Black 1992 Gods |
| Mesopotamian Theodicy | Notes | 7.10 |
| 12.4 |
| Mesopotamian “theology” | Notes | 5.2 |
| Mesopotamian wisdom | Bibliography | Albright 1960 Wisdom |
| Thomas 1960 Wisdom |
| Mesopotamian wisdom literature | Bibliography | Buccellati 1981 Wisdom |
| μεσο-ποτάμιος (meso-potámios: Greek) | Notes | 2.13 |
| messengers | Bibliography | De Pietri 2022 Messengers |
| messianic themes | Notes | 17.6 |
| Messianism | 8. Excerpts | Buccellati 2007 > Messianism |
| me (Sumerian) | Notes | 5.3 |
| meta-perception | 8. Excerpts | Buccellati 2014 Profondo > Perception and ‘meta-perception’ |
| Bibliography | Buccellati 2014 Time |
| metaphor | Notes | 25.6 |
| metaphor of model-making | Bibliography | Lynch 2024 Ph D |
| metaphysical original sin of polytheism | 8. Excerpts | Buccellati 2013 > Fragmentation of the absolute in polytheism |
| methodology | 1. Introduction | Preface > Methodology |
| 8. Excerpts | Buccellati 2024 > On method |
| 9. Critical reviews | Mario Liverani 2009 Oltre |
| Bibliography | Brelich 1976 Prolegomeni |
| Lenzi 2010 Invoking |
| Notes | 1.11 |
| methodology in historical research | Bibliography | Lynch 2024 Ph D |
| ‘m h’rṣ (Hebrew) | Bibliography | Buccellati 1959 B O 3 |
| Notes | 2.14 |
| 16.6 |
| 19.2 |
| 19.4 |
| Mic 1, 5 | Notes | 20.5 |
| Mic 3, 12 | Notes | 20.5 |
| Mic 6, 6-8 | Notes | 22.2 |
| Michael | Notes | 14.2 |
| mīšaram šakānu (Akkadian) | Notes | 17.6 |
| miṣeôt (מִצְוֹת: Hebrew) | Notes | 8.4 |
| miths and rituals | 8. Excerpts | Balentine 2020 > Myths and Rituals |
| mītu (Akkadian) | Notes | 22.8 |
| Mk. 13, 12 | Notes | 17.6 |
| modality of the sacred | 8. Excerpts | Eliade 1958 > ToC of {B}R/Eliade1958Patterns |
| modernity | Notes | 24.3 |
| môfēth (מוֹפֵת: Hebrew) | Notes | 11.3 |
| monarchy (Israel) | 8. Excerpts | Liverani 2005 > Invention of the United Monarchy |
| monotheism | 8. Excerpts | Achtemeier 1996 > Monotheism |
| Buccellati 2007 > Polytheism vs. monotheism |
| Liverani 2005 > Monotheism |
| 9. Critical reviews | Mario Liverani 2009 Oltre |
| Mark Smith 2001 Monotheism |
| Bibliography | Assmann 1998 Moses |
| Buber 1937 Iandthou |
| Buccellati 2012 Trinità |
| Buccellati 2020 Job |
| Lambert 1975 Pantheon |
| Lambert 1990 Gods Superstition |
| Mendenhall 1975 Conflict |
| Pongratz- Leisten 2011 Revolutionary |
| Roberts 1975 Divine Freedom |
| Rochberg 2011 Heavens Gods |
| Schenker 1997 Monotheisme |
| Smith 2001 Origins |
| Snell 2010 Religions |
| Notes | 1.5 |
| 3.2 |
| 3.3 |
| 5.1 |
| 5.2 |
| 5.3 |
| 6.9 |
| 17.4 |
| monotheism and polytheism, similarities | Bibliography | Roberts 1975 Divine Freedom |
| moon | 8. Excerpts | Eliade 1958 > The moon and “eternal returning” |
| Eliade 1958 > The moon and pattern |
| morality | 8. Excerpts | Bottéro 1992 > Morality |
| Bibliography | Lambert 1958 Morals |
| Notes | 4.4 |
| 8.1 |
| mortality | Bibliography | Piccin 2018 Mortality |
| Moses | Bibliography | Artus 2015 Moise |
| Assmann 1998 Moses |
| Notes | 17.1 |
| Mother-Goddess | 8. Excerpts | Cauvin 2000 > A new religion |
| Bibliography | Balter 2005 Catalhoyuk |
| Mother goddesses | Bibliography | Oates 1978 Religion |
| mourning rites | 8. Excerpts | Achtemeier 1996 > Morning rites |
| Mt 12, 6 | Notes | 20.6 |
| Mt. 2, 2 | Notes | 11.3 |
| Mt 26, 61 | Notes | 20.6 |
| Müller | I. The Argument | 6. History of the Discipline > Friedrich Max Müller |
| multinodal index: background | III. Utilities | 12. Multinodal Index > Background |
| multinodal index: generating | III. Utilities | 12. Multinodal Index > Generating the Multinodal Index |
| Multinodal Index: interpretation | III. Utilities | 12. Multinodal Index > Interpreting the Multinodal Index |
| multinodal index: interpretation | III. Utilities | MNI: Details |
| multinodal index: introduction | III. Utilities | 12. Multinodal Index > Introduction |
| multinodal index: keywords | III. Utilities | 12. Multinodal Index > Keyword Extraction |
| multinodal index (MNI) | III. Utilities | 12. Multinodal Index |
| multinodal index (MNI): author comparison | III. Utilities | MNI: Details > Author comparison |
| multinodal index (MNI): author index | III. Utilities | MNI: Details > Author search |
| MNI: Guide > Author Index |
| multinodal index (MNI): generating | III. Utilities | MNI: Details > Generating the Multinodal Index |
| multinodal index (MNI): graphical representation (UMAP projection) | III. Utilities | MNI: Details > Graphical Representations - UMAP Projection |
| multinodal index (MNI): grephical representations | III. Utilities | MNI: Details > Graphical Representations - Force-Directed Graph |
| multinodal index (MNI): interpretation (further) | III. Utilities | MNI: Details > Further interpretation |
| multinodal index (MNI): keywords | III. Utilities | MNI: Details > Keyword search |
| MNI: Guide > Keyword Index |
| multinodal index (MNI) vs. linear index | III. Utilities | MNI: Details > Linear vs. Multinodal Indices |
| multinodal index: quick-start guide | III. Utilities | MNI: Guide |
| multiplicity | Notes | 3.3 |
| multiplicity/unity of the divine | 8. Excerpts | Buccellati 2024 > Multiplicity and Unity of the Divine |
| Mummu | Notes | 6.3 |
| Mušḫuššu | Notes | 8.6 |
| mysticism | Bibliography | Buber 1937 Iandthou |
| myth | 8. Excerpts | Achtemeier 1996 > Myth |
| Bibliography | Cassirer 1946 Language |
| Myth of Anzu | Notes | 17.4 |
| mythologems | Bibliography | Durand 1993 Combat |
| Xella 2014 Dieux |
| mythological intuition | 8. Excerpts | Cornford 1957 > Excerpts from {B}R/Cornford1957Philosophy |
| mythology | 8. Excerpts | Cornford 1957 > Excerpts from {B}R/Cornford1957Philosophy |
| Bibliography | Bottero 2001 Religion |
| Braun Holzinger 2013 Gotterdarstellung |
| Buccellati 2014 Time |
| Mander 2009 Religione |
| Oppenheim 1964 Mesopotamia |
| Toombs 1961mythpatterns |
| myth patterns | Notes | 17.4 |
| myths | 4. Themes | Time and Calendars in Mesopotamia |
| 8. Excerpts | Brelich 1976 > Myths |
| Lambert 2013 |
| Oppenheim 1964 > Myths |
| Bibliography | Atac 2007 Melammu |
| Brelich 1976 Prolegomeni |
| Buccellati 1973 Adapa |
| Dalley 2000 Myths |
| Frankfort 1958 Dying God |
| Hamori 2008 Embodied God |
| Kammerer Metzler 2012 Enuma |
| Lambert 1968 Myth Ritual |
| Lambert 2013 Creation Myths |
| Liverani 2004 Myths |
| Weeks 2015 Myth Ritual |
| Wegner 1981 Ishtar |
| Notes | 5.1 |
| 17.4 |
| Naaman’s ‘conversion’ | Notes | 7.13 |
| NAB | Bibliography | N A B |
| nabî (Hebrew) | Notes | 10.1 |
| nābî (נָבִיא: Hebrew) | Notes | 10.1 |
| Nabu | Notes | 6.4 |
| naĝar (Protoeuphratian) | Notes | 6.2 |
| nāḥam (נָחַם: Hebrew) | Notes | 14.6 |
| namburbi (Akkadian) | Bibliography | Caplice 1965 Namburbi |
| Caplice 1967 Namburbi |
| Caplice 1974 Namburbi |
| Ebeling 1955 Namburbi |
| Maul 1994 Namburbi |
| namburbi (Akkadian) | Notes | 9.2 |
| 13.10 |
| 13.13 |
| 14.1 |
| names of God (OT) | 8. Excerpts | Achtemeier 1996 > Names of God in the Old Testament |
| naming | Bibliography | Galoppin &al 2022 Naming |
| Naram-Sin | Notes | 26.1 |
| narrative | 1. Introduction | Digital dimension > A digital narrative |
| narratology | Bibliography | Feldt 2013narratology |
| Narratology | Notes | 17.4 |
| nature | 8. Excerpts | Eliade 1958 > Nature is never purely “natural” |
| Jacobsen 1976 > Nature |
| Bibliography | Brelich 1976 Prolegomeni |
| Katz 1995 Emergence |
| Meijer 1992 Natural |
| Notes | 2.11 |
| 9.1 |
| nature: Mesopotamia | 8. Excerpts | Frahm 2011 > Nature as a book (Mesopotamia) |
| nature of God | 8. Excerpts | Buccellati 2007 > Trinity and nature of God |
| nature of myths | Notes | 17.7 |
| Nb. 23, 19 | Notes | 14.6 |
| Neanderthals | Bibliography | Trinkaus 1983 Shanidar |
| necromancy | 8. Excerpts | Buccellati 2024 > Necromancy |
| George 2003 |
| Bibliography | Buccellati 2014 Dalprofondo |
| Dahan 2021 Samuel |
| Schmidt 1991 Beneficent |
| Schmidt 2020 Necromancy |
| Tropper 1989 Nekromantie |
| Notes | 8.6 |
| 11.7 |
| necromantic structure | Bibliography | Buccellati Kelly Buccellati 2005 Hurrian |
| Buccellati Kelly Buccellati 2007 Heaven |
| Collins 2004 Channel |
| Di Martino 2005 Archeozoologia |
| Kelly Buccellati 2002 Unterwelt |
| Neo-Assyrian divination | Bibliography | Verderame 2004 Divination |
| Neo-Assyrian Empire | Bibliography | Liverani 2017 Assyria |
| Neo-Assyrian period | Bibliography | Levine 2005 Assyrian Israelite Monotheism |
| Neolithic | Notes | 6.2 |
| Nergal | 8. Excerpts | Oppenheim 1964 > Is Tammuz a “type” of later gods? |
| Notes | 8.6 |
| 11.5 |
| 17.4 |
| netherworld | 8. Excerpts | George 2003 > Bilgamesh and the Netherworld |
| Netherworld | Bibliography | Abusch 2001 Gilgamesh |
| Kelly Buccellati 2002 Unterwelt |
| Notes | 13.14 |
| 22.8 |
| neurology | Notes | 4.1 |
| New Testament | Bibliography | Batto 1987 Sleeping God |
| New Year Festival | 8. Excerpts | Achtemeier 1996 > New Year Festival |
| New Year festival | Bibliography | Weeks 2015 Myth Ritual |
| New-Year festival | Notes | 17.7 |
| New Year festival | Notes | 21.2 |
| New Year Festival | Notes | 22.5 |
| nihilism | Bibliography | Cohen 2015 Problem Of Theodicy |
| Cohen 2015 Theodicy |
| Ninhursaga | Bibliography | Asher Greve 2013 Goddesses |
| Ninkarrak/Gula | Notes | 6.4 |
| Ninurta | Notes | 13.9 |
| Nippur | Bibliography | Gotze 1970 Early |
| Nisaba | Notes | 9.4 |
| nīš qāti (Akkadian) | Notes | 15.2 |
| nissā (נִסָּה: Hebrew) | Notes | 7.10 |
| nocturnal rituals | Bibliography | Kelly Buccellati 2002 Unterwelt |
| noise | Bibliography | Heffron 2014 Noise |
| Michalowski 1990 Presence |
| Notes | 8.5 |
| nomadism | 8. Excerpts | Liverani 2005 > Nomadism vs. sedentarism |
| nomadism vs. sedentarism | 8. Excerpts | Liverani 2005 > Nomadism vs. sedentarism |
| nomads | Notes | 6.6 |
| nominalism | Notes | 8.4 |
| non-absolute | 8. Excerpts | Buccellati 2013 > Dynamics of the absolute; the “non-absolute” |
| nostalgia | 8. Excerpts | Eliade 1958 > Nostalgia for eternity |
| notes | 1. Introduction | Notes |
| I. The Argument | 3. Notes to the printed volume |
| nothingness | 8. Excerpts | Buccellati 2013 > Nothingness |
| nukkuru (Akkadian) | Notes | 14.5 |
| nullification of the absolute | 8. Excerpts | Buccellati 2013 > “Beyondness” and “nullification” of the absolute |
| numinous | 8. Excerpts | Bottéro 1992 > Intransitiveness |
| Bibliography | Jacobsen 1963 Central Concerns |
| numinous = absolute | 8. Excerpts | Jacobsen 1976 > Numinous = Absolute |
| Nuzi | Bibliography | Schmidt 1991 Beneficent |
| nwn (Egyptian) | Notes | 6.4 |
| ߴôb (Hebrew) | Bibliography | Schmidt 2020 Necromancy |
| objectivity | 8. Excerpts | Buccellati 2024 > On method |
| Notes | 1.11 |
| ’ôdôt u-môftîm (אֹותֹת וּמֹפְתִים: Hebrew) | Notes | 11.3 |
| offerings | 9. Critical reviews | Lorenzo Viganò 1995 Ebla I |
| Marco Bonechi 1989 Ebla |
| Paolo Matthiae 2012 Culte |
| Bibliography | Biome 1934 Opfermaterie |
| Glassner 2009 Invention |
| Notes | 13.2 |
| 13.13 |
| 22.2 |
| oil | 9. Critical reviews | Lorenzo Viganò 1995 Ebla II |
| Bibliography | Vigano 2000 Rituals |
| ‘ôlā (עוֹלָ: Hebrew) | Notes | 13.2 |
| Old-Babylonian | Bibliography | Cohen 2018 Morality In Antiquity |
| Notes | 6.2 |
| Old Testament | Bibliography | Morton 1952 Theology |
| omens | 8. Excerpts | Davis 2016 > Human-divine relationship in dingiršadabba prayers |
| Oppenheim 1964 > The birth of Assyriology |
| omina | Bibliography | Annus 2010 Divination |
| Boissier 1894 Documents |
| Buccellati 1972 Beatitudini |
| De Zorzi 2011 Omina |
| Kraus 1936 Sittenkanon |
| Maul 2007 Divination Culture |
| Oppenheim 1954 Af O 17 |
| Oppenheim 1964 Mesopotamia |
| Notes | 10.1 |
| omphalos | 8. Excerpts | Eliade 1958 > Bearing witness to “something else” |
| one-theism | 8. Excerpts | Buccellati 2013 > Monotheism as “One-theism” |
| onomastics | Bibliography | Cousin Watai 2016 Onomastics |
| Galoppin &al 2022 Naming |
| ontological difference | Notes | 3.3 |
| open system | Bibliography | Buccellati 1981 Wisdom |
| ‘open system’ | Notes | 1.2 |
| open system | Notes | 3.2 |
| ‘open system’ | Notes | 3.3 |
| Oppenheim | I. The Argument | 6. History of the Discipline > A. Leo Oppenheim |
| oracles | 8. Excerpts | Achtemeier 1996 > Oracles |
| Pongratz-Leisten 2015 > Oracle collections and prophetic historiography |
| Bibliography | Heintz 1997 Oracles |
| Tadmor 1975 Assyria West |
| orality | Notes | 21.1 |
| orality and literacy in ancient Israel | Bibliography | Miller 2012 Orality |
| orality and literacy in ancient Mesopotamia | Bibliography | Michalowski 1992 Orality |
| order | Bibliography | Buccellati 2018 Voegelin |
| Hoffner 1975 Propaganda |
| Jahn 2013 Creation |
| Notes | 4.4 |
| 13.3 |
| organization of the earth (creation) | 8. Excerpts | Lambert 2013 > The organization of the Earth |
| organization of the Heavens | 8. Excerpts | Lambert 2013 > The organization of the Heavens |
| origin | Notes | 1.4 |
| origin and future of religion | Bibliography | Freud 1961 Future |
| origin of evil | Notes | 8.5 |
| origin of religion | Bibliography | Anati 2020 Origins |
| origins | 8. Excerpts | Buccellati 2014 Profondo |
| Notes | 6.3 |
| origins of Israel | 8. Excerpts | Liverani 2005 > Origins of Israel: Theories |
| osteological study | Bibliography | Di Martino 2005 Archeozoologia |
| ’ôth (אֹות: Hebrew) | Notes | 11.3 |
| paganism | Bibliography | Kaufmann 1951 Idolatry |
| pagans | Bibliography | Beard 1990 Pagan |
| paĝar (Protoeuphratian) | Notes | 6.2 |
| pagrā‘um (Akkadian) | Bibliography | Schmidt 1991 Beneficent |
| paḥad (פַּחַד: Hebrew) | Notes | 7.10 |
| palace tiyuals (Syria) | 8. Excerpts | Balentine 2020 > Palace Rituals in Syria |
| palāḫu (Akkadian) | Notes | 7.10 |
| paleoanthropology | Bibliography | Facchini 2002 Origini |
| Palestine | Notes | 9.6 |
| Palmyra | Notes | 6.7 |
| pantheism | 8. Excerpts | Buccellati 2007 > Articulation of the absolute |
| pantheon | 8. Excerpts | Xella 2014 |
| Bibliography | Buccellati 1981 Wisdom |
| Galoppin &al 2022 Naming |
| Hundley 2013 Examination |
| Jestin 1976 Sumer |
| Lambert 1990 Gods Superstition |
| Wegner 1981 Ishtar |
| Notes | 1.2 |
| 5.1 |
| pantheon(s) | 8. Excerpts | Xella 2014 > Ugaritic pantheon(s) |
| paradise | 8. Excerpts | Eliade 1958 > Longing for Paradise |
| pārā’ (פָּרָא: Hebrew) | Notes | 14.6 |
| patriarchal traditions | 4. Themes | Amorites and Patriarchal Traditions |
| Notes | 2.14 |
| 6.6 |
| patriarchs | 8. Excerpts | Liverani 2005 > Invention of the Patriarchs |
| patriarchy | Bibliography | Popa 2016 Agency |
| patterns | 8. Excerpts | Eliade 1958 > Extended summary of {B}R/Eliade1958Patterns |
| Eliade 1958 > The moon and pattern |
| Bibliography | Toombs 1961mythpatterns |
| Yalom 2012 Love |
| Notes | 4.1 |
| Pazuzu | Notes | 6.2 |
| Pazuzu (benevolent demon) | Notes | 8.6 |
| peace | Bibliography | Bettini 2014 Polytheism |
| pearl | 8. Excerpts | Eliade 1958 > The pearl |
| Pentateuch | Notes | 17.5 |
| People of the country | Bibliography | Buccellati 1959 B O 3 |
| Notes | 2.14 |
| 16.6 |
| 19.2 |
| 19.4 |
| ‘People of the Land’ | 8. Excerpts | Liverani 2005 > ‘People of the Land’ |
| people(s) | 8. Excerpts | Achtemeier 1996 > People(s) |
| perception | 8. Excerpts | Buccellati 2014 Profondo > Perception and ‘meta-perception’ |
| Buccellati 2014 Profondo > Perception and transcendence |
| Buccellati 2014 Profondo > Perception and understanding |
| Bibliography | Buccellati 2012 Coerenza |
| Faivre 1995 Ambiguita |
| Notes | 1.1 |
| 4.1 |
| perception of the absolute | Notes | 5.4 |
| perception of the divine | Notes | 6.9 |
| performance approach | 8. Excerpts | Davis 2016 |
| Davis 2016 > Performance approach to rituals |
| peripatéia | Bibliography | Buccellati 1972 Beatitudini |
| periphery | Bibliography | Flannery 2012 Temples Inequality |
| persistence | Bibliography | Denning Bolle &al 1996 Religion |
| person | 4. Themes | God and the gods: person vs. attributes |
| Notes | 7.11 |
| personal absolute | 8. Excerpts | Buccellati 2013 > “Impersonal” vs. “personal” absolute |
| Buccellati 2024 > The God of Israel as personal absolute |
| personal faith | I. The Argument | 6. History of the Discipline > Scholarship and personal faith |
| personal god | 8. Excerpts | Davis 2016 > Human-divine relationship in dingiršadabba prayers |
| Jacobsen 1976 > Personal god |
| personal names | Bibliography | Stol 1991 O B P N |
| Notes | 14.2 |
| personal piety | Bibliography | Buccellati 1961 Egyptian Religion |
| Notes | 1.5 |
| personal prayer | Bibliography | Couvede Murville 1975 Personal |
| Notes | 14.2 |
| personal religion | 8. Excerpts | Jacobsen 1976 > Personal religion |
| Bibliography | Cousin Watai 2016 Onomastics |
| personified divinity | 8. Excerpts | Cauvin 2000 > Personified divinity |
| phenomena | 8. Excerpts | Brelich 1976 > Other religious phenomena |
| philology | Bibliography | Albright 1940 A N Ereligion |
| philosophers | 8. Excerpts | Eliade 1958 > Secularization of hierophany |
| philosophy | 8. Excerpts | Cornford 1957 |
| Cornford 1957 > Excerpts from {B}R/Cornford1957Philosophy |
| Fine 2019 |
| Frankfort 1949 |
| Bibliography | Cohen 2015 Problem Of Theodicy |
| Cohen 2015 Theodicy |
| Cornford 1957 Philosophy |
| Lambert 1990 Gods Superstition |
| Van De Mieroop 2016 Philosophy |
| Yildirim 2017 Political |
| Phoenician gods | Bibliography | Xella 2001 Quando |
| Phoenician pantheon | Bibliography | Xella 2014 Dieux |
| Phoenicians | 8. Excerpts | Xella 2014 |
| φρόνεσις (frónesis: Greek) | Notes | 14.7 |
| physiognomatic omina | Bibliography | Buccellati 1981 Wisdom |
| piety | Bibliography | Trinkaus 1983 Shanidar |
| Notes | 1.5 |
| pilgrimage | Bibliography | Mc Corriston 2017 Pilgrimage |
| Ristvet 2011 Travel |
| plague | 8. Excerpts | Oppenheim 1964 > Is Tammuz a “type” of later gods? |
| planetary omens | Bibliography | Reiner 1981 Enuma |
| plant symbolism | 8. Excerpts | Eliade 1958 > Plant symbolism |
| Eliade 1958 > Plant symbolism and the drama of life |
| Plato | 8. Excerpts | Fine 2019 |
| Bibliography | Fine 2019 Plato |
| Notes | 5.1 |
| Plato’s dialogues | Notes | 17.2 |
| plurality | 8. Excerpts | Jacobsen 1976 > Plurality (= polytheism) |
| Notes | 5.1 |
| plurality of gods | Notes | 5.1 |
| plurality of the divine | Notes | 5.1 |
| πνεῦμα (pnéuma: Greek) | Notes | 14.7 |
| Poem of Erra | 8. Excerpts | Foster 2005 > The Poem of Erra |
| poetry | Bibliography | Reiner 1985 Thwarts |
| polarity | Notes | 2.5 |
| political institutions | Notes | 26.2 |
| political legitimation | Bibliography | Jones 2003 Embracing |
| political structures | Notes | 8.4 |
| political use of religion | Notes | 16.1 |
| politics | Bibliography | Ermidoro 2017 Time |
| politics and religion | Bibliography | Berlin 1996 Religion |
| Frankfort 1948 Kingship |
| Holloway 2001 Assur |
| Jones 2003 Embracing |
| Liverani 2004 Myths |
| Yildirim 2017 Political |
| Notes | 16.2 |
| polytheism | 8. Excerpts | Achtemeier 1996 > Polytheism |
| Buccellati 2007 > Polytheism vs. monotheism |
| Pongratz-Leisten 2015 > Polytheism |
| 9. Critical reviews | Mario Liverani 2009 Oltre |
| Mark Smith 2001 Monotheism |
| Bibliography | Bettini 2014 Polytheism |
| Buccellati 2012 Trinità |
| Buccellati 2020 Job |
| Hamidovic 2015 Mastema |
| Lambert 1975 Pantheon |
| Mander 2009 Religione |
| Mendenhall 1975 Conflict |
| Pongratz- Leisten 2015 Ideology |
| Roberts 1975 Divine Freedom |
| Roberts 2002 Critical |
| Roberts 2002 Myth |
| Smith 2001 Origins |
| Snell 2010 Religions |
| Whatham 1899 Poly |
| Notes | 1.1 |
| 1.5 |
| 2.15 |
| 3.2 |
| 4.4 |
| 5.1 |
| 5.2 |
| 5.3 |
| 8.4 |
| 18.3 |
| 24.3 |
| polytheism: Ancient Near East | Bibliography | Biga- Capomacchia 2008 Politeismo |
| Notes | 1.5 |
| polytheism : coherence = monotheism : faith | 8. Excerpts | Buccellati 2012 Coerenza |
| polytheism, phenomenology of religion | Bibliography | Brelich 2007 Politeismo |
| polytheism vs. monotheism | 8. Excerpts | Oppenheim 1964 > Difference between polytheism and monotheism |
| polytheistic divinities | Notes | 18.2 |
| popular/private religion | Bibliography | Dandamaev 1996 State |
| portrait of Ancient Mesopotamia | 8. Excerpts | Oppenheim 1964 > Prefatory note |
| post-exilic ideological re-elaboration | 8. Excerpts | Liverani 2005 > Epilogue |
| post hoc ergo propter hoc | Notes | 17.3 |
| potency incantations | Bibliography | Biggs 1967 Shaziga |
| power | 8. Excerpts | Pongratz-Leisten 2015 |
| prayer | 8. Excerpts | Achtemeier 1996 > Prayer |
| Davis 2016 |
| Bibliography | Buber 1937 Iandthou |
| Davis 2016 Relating |
| Goldman 1990 Gestures |
| Jacobsen 1963 Central Concerns |
| Knohl 1996 Prayer Temple |
| vander Toorn 1985 Sin Sanction |
| Notes | 8.1 |
| 13.2 |
| 14.3 |
| 14.7 |
| 20.4 |
| 22.11 |
| prayer gestures | Notes | 15.2 |
| prayer literature | 8. Excerpts | Oppenheim 1964 > Relationship between man and god |
| prayer (Mesopotamia) | 8. Excerpts | Oppenheim 1964 > Prayer in Mesopotamia |
| Prayer to the “gods of the night” | Bibliography | Dossin 1935 Prieres |
| prayer to the gods of the night | Bibliography | Shileiko 1924 Night |
| preface | 1. Introduction | Preface |
| prehistoric religion | Bibliography | Anati 2020 Origins |
| prehistoric times | Notes | 6.2 |
| prehistory | Bibliography | Buccellati 2018 Voegelin |
| Cauvin 2000 Birth |
| Schmidt 2011 Costruirono |
| Notes | 6.2 |
| prehistory, piety | Notes | 6.2 |
| presages | Bibliography | Boissier 1894 Documents |
| presence | 4. Themes | Presence |
| Bibliography | Freedman 1995 Hidden |
| Pre-Socratics | Bibliography | Burnet 1920 Early |
| Diels 1960 Fragmente |
| Notes | 6.3 |
| Pre-Sumerian substratum | Bibliography | Rubio 1999 Substratum |
| priesthood | Bibliography | Beard 1990 Pagan |
| priestly narrative | Bibliography | de Pury 2016 Absence Colere |
| priests | 8. Excerpts | Achtemeier 1996 > Priests |
| Balentine 2020 > Priests |
| Bibliography | Knohl 1996 Prayer Temple |
| Von Soden 1985 Einfuhrungen |
| Wegner 1981 Ishtar |
| prime mover | Bibliography | Oates 1978 Religion |
| primeval water | 8. Excerpts | Eliade 1958 > Primeval water |
| primitial offer | 8. Excerpts | Brelich 1976 > Sacrifices |
| primitive divinities > agricultural divinities | 8. Excerpts | Eliade 1958 > From primitive divinities to agricultural divinities |
| primitives > Christianity | 8. Excerpts | Eliade 1958 > Continuity from “primitives” to Christianity |
| private prayer | Notes | 12.1 |
| procession | Notes | 2.15 |
| processional streets | Notes | 22.7 |
| processions | Bibliography | Jacobsen 1975 Religious Drama |
| Mc Corriston 2017 Pilgrimage |
| Pongratz- Leisten 1994 Akitu |
| Ristvet 2011 Travel |
| Notes | 2.15 |
| 22.5 |
| 22.7 |
| proclamation | Notes | 21.2 |
| progress (research) | Bibliography | Lynch 2024 Ph D |
| prophecy | Bibliography | Blum 2008 Prophetie |
| Buccellati 1972 Beatitudini |
| de Jong 1989 Observations |
| Heintz 1997 Oracles |
| Kitz 2003 Prophecy |
| Kockert 2003 Propheten |
| Lion 2000 Mentions |
| Nissinen 1998 S A A S 7 |
| Nissinen 2003 Prophetie |
| Nissinen 2003 Prophets |
| Nissinen 2017 Ancient Prophecy |
| Nissinen 2019 Prophets |
| Scurlock 2010 Prophecy Divination |
| Tadmor 1975 Assyria West |
| Weippert 1985 Bildsprache |
| Weippert 2001 Prophetie |
| Notes | 10.1 |
| 10.7 |
| prophet | 8. Excerpts | Achtemeier 1996 > Prophet |
| prophetess | 8. Excerpts | Achtemeier 1996 > Prophetess |
| prophetic historiography | 8. Excerpts | Pongratz-Leisten 2015 > Oracle collections and prophetic historiography |
| prophetism | Bibliography | Deluty 2020 Prophecy |
| Oppenheim 1954 Af O 17 |
| prophets | Bibliography | Huffmon 2000 Prophets |
| Lafont 1984 Adad |
| Lemaire 2001 Prophets |
| Nissinen 2000 Prophecy |
| Prophets |
| Sharp 2016 Prophets |
| Von Soden 1985 Einfuhrungen |
| Weippert 2002 Konig |
| Notes | 8.5 |
| 10.5 |
| prophylactic rituals | 8. Excerpts | Davis 2016 > Human-divine relationship in dingiršadabba prayers |
| protective spirits | 8. Excerpts | Oppenheim 1964 > Relationship between man and god |
| Protoeuphratian | Notes | 6.2 |
| protoeuphratian | Notes | 6.2 |
| proverb | 8. Excerpts | Achtemeier 1996 > Proverb |
| proverbs | Bibliography | Alster 1975 Proverbs |
| Cohen 2018 Morality In Antiquity |
| Fechner 2015 Proverbial |
| Streck 2016 Wolves |
| Notes | 14.2 |
| Ps. 102 | Notes | 14.3 |
| Ps. 115, 4 | Notes | 18.2 |
| Ps. 116, 12 | Notes | 7.10 |
| Ps. 1, 2 | Notes | 12.5 |
| Ps. 13, 1 | Notes | 14.6 |
| Ps. 135, 15 | Notes | 18.2 |
| Ps. 137 | Notes | 6.8 |
| Ps. 137, 8f. | Notes | 16.6 |
| Ps. 143, 5 | Notes | 19.5 |
| Ps. 144, 3 | Notes | 19.5 |
| Ps. 145, 4 | Notes | 19.5 |
| Ps 16, 10 | Notes | 22.9 |
| Ps. 40, 6 | Notes | 13.2 |
| Ps 40, 7-8 | Notes | 22.2 |
| Ps. 41, 5 | Notes | 14.6 |
| Ps 49, 9-10, 16 | Notes | 22.9 |
| Ps 50, 14-15 | Notes | 22.2 |
| Ps 50, 9-13 | Notes | 22.2 |
| Ps. 5, 13-15 | Notes | 11.2 |
| Ps. 7, 10-15 | Notes | 11.2 |
| Ps. 82, 1 | Notes | 8.6 |
| psalmists | Notes | 14.3 |
| Psalms | Bibliography | Batto 1987 Sleeping God |
| Davis 2016 Relating |
| Langdon 1919 Psalms |
| Notes | 14.3 |
| Psalms: Mesopotamian parallels | Bibliography | Zernecke 2014 Psalms |
| Psalter | Bibliography | Lenzi 2010 Invoking |
| psychological experience | 8. Excerpts | Oppenheim 1964 > Relationship between man and god |
| psychological tone | Notes | 7.10 |
| psychology, arts, prehistory, presence | Bibliography | Armstrong 1971 Presence |
| public consumption | Notes | 17.7 |
| purification | Bibliography | Vigano 2000 Rituals |
| purification priest | 9. Critical reviews | Lorenzo Viganò 1995 Ebla I |
| purification ritual | 9. Critical reviews | Lorenzo Viganò 1995 Ebla II |
| purifying sacrifice for leprosy | Notes | 13.13 |
| purity laws | Bibliography | Burki 2015 Nombres |
| qārā’ (קָרָא: Hebrew) | Notes | 14.6 |
| qin`ah (קִנְאָה: Hebrew) | Notes | 7.11 |
| qodeš (קֹדֶשׁ: Hebrew) | Notes | 20.4 |
| Qoelet | Bibliography | Greenstein 2007 Dialogue |
| Qohelet | Bibliography | Landolt 2016 Qohelet |
| qôl demāmā daqqāh (קֹ֖ול דְּמָמָ֥ה דַקָּֽה: Hebrew) | Notes | 14.7 |
| Qumran | Bibliography | Albani 2000 Horoscopes |
| Allegro 1968 D J D 5 |
| Knohl 1996 Prayer Temple |
| Martone 1997 Ben Sira |
| Vermer 2011 D S S |
| Notes | 9.6 |
| rābā(h) (רָבָּה: Hebrew) | Notes | 14.6 |
| raised-hand prayer | Notes | 7.3 |
| 15.2 |
| rāmu (Akkadian) | Notes | 7.12 |
| Rapiʼuma | 9. Critical reviews | Paolo Matthiae 2012 Culte |
| Ras Shamra | 9. Critical reviews | Mark Smith 2001 Monotheism |
| Paolo Matthiae 2012 Culte |
| Bibliography | Morton 1952 Theology |
| rationality | 8. Excerpts | Frahm 2011 > Coherence, rationality |
| Bibliography | Bottero 1974 Symptomes |
| Cassirer 1946 Language |
| Notes | 4.2 |
| raw material | Bibliography | Arkhipov 2019 Zimri- Lim |
| RdA/RlA = Reallexikon der Assyriologie und Vorderasiatischen Archäologie | Bibliography | Rd A |
| reason | Bibliography | Piu X I I 1951 Discorso |
| Ratzinger 2004 Introduction |
| Notes | 1.8 |
| reasoning before philosophy | 8. Excerpts | Buccellati 2024 > Reasoning before philosophy |
| reification of reality | 8. Excerpts | Buccellati 2012 Coerenza |
| reification of thought | 8. Excerpts | Buccellati 2012 Coerenza |
| reiteration of patterns | Notes | 1.9 |
| relationship | Bibliography | Buber 1937 Iandthou |
| Cicero 0045 Deorum |
| Davis 2016 Relating |
| religion | 1. Introduction | 1. Religion and spirituality |
| 1. Religion and spirituality > Religion: the cultural codification |
| Notes > “Religion” |
| 4. Themes | On the Definition of Religion |
| Religion and spirituality |
| Religion and spirituality > Religion: the cultural codification |
5.Monographs
The absolute | Spirituality and religion |
| Spirituality and religion > Religion: the cultural codification |
| Universals |
| 8. Excerpts | Brelich 1976 |
| Cornford 1957 |
| Cornford 1957 > Excerpts from {B}R/Cornford1957Philosophy |
| Pongratz-Leisten 2015 |
| Bibliography | Boase 2016 Trauma |
| Bottero 1974 Symptomes |
| Brelich 1976 Prolegomeni |
| Buccellati 1981 Wisdom |
| Cicero 0045 Deorum |
| Cornford 1957 Philosophy |
| Hodder 2010 Emergence |
| Houck- Loomis 2018 Trauma |
| Jacobsen 1963 Central Concerns |
| Jeffers 2007 Interpreting Magic |
| Oates 1978 Religion |
| Pongratz- Leisten 2015 Ideology |
| Pyrke 2016 Religion Humanity |
| Roberts 2002 Critical |
| Roberts 2002 Myth |
| Wyatt 2001 Space Time |
| Notes | 1.1 |
| 3.1 |
| 4.2 |
| religion and kingship | 8. Excerpts | Pongratz-Leisten 2015 > Kingship and religion |
| religion and politics | Bibliography | Orlin 2005 Politics |
| religion and power | Bibliography | Brisch 2008 Religion |
| religion as a ‘tensional factor’ | Notes | 16.1 |
| religion: definition | 8. Excerpts | Bottéro 1992 > What is a religion? |
| Brelich 1976 > Religion |
| Buccellati 1981 |
| Buccellati 2024 > The definition of ‘religion’ |
| Eliade 1958 > Definition of “religion” |
| Eliade 1958 > ToC of {B}R/Eliade1958Patterns |
| Jacobsen 1976 > Numinous = Absolute |
| Xella 2014 > Religion |
| I. The Argument | 6. History of the Discipline > The struggle for a definition of religion |
| religion: modern approach | 8. Excerpts | Xella 2014 > Religion |
| religions | Bibliography | Denning Bolle &al 1996 Religion |
| Notes | 1.1 |
| religions: database | Bibliography | D R H |
| religious agency | Bibliography | Popa 2016 Agency |
| religious beliefs | Bibliography | Brelich 1976 Prolegomeni |
| religious drama | Bibliography | Jacobsen 1975 Religious Drama |
| religious imagery | Bibliography | Arkhipov 2019 Zimri- Lim |
| religious practice | Notes | 7.5 |
| 14.3 |
| religious sense | Bibliography | Burkert 1998 Creation |
| Facchini 2002 Origini |
| religious sentiment | Bibliography | Bottero 1998 Plus |
| Bottero 2001 Religion |
| Notes | 1.4 |
| religious spirit | Bibliography | Buccellati 1961 Egyptian Religion |
| religious systems | 8. Excerpts | Buccellati 2024 > Religious systems |
| religious thought | Bibliography | Buccellati 2014 Dalprofondo |
| religious topography | Bibliography | George 1992 B T T |
| repeated regularity | Notes | 9.1 |
| repentance | Bibliography | Anthonioz 2016 Deluge |
| Bauks 2016 Repentance |
| Bodi 2015 Agents |
| Durand 2016 Entre |
| Scheid 2015 Dieux |
| repetitive modules | Notes | 7.1 |
| Rephaʼim | 9. Critical reviews | Paolo Matthiae 2012 Culte |
| representation of deities | Bibliography | Ornan 2005 Triumph |
| representatives | 8. Excerpts | Brelich 1976 > Representatives |
| research trends | 1. Introduction | 1. Religion and spirituality > Research trends |
| 4. Themes | Mesopotamia and the Bible > Research trends |
| Religion and spirituality > Research trends |
5.Monographs
The absolute | Mesopotamia and the Bible > Research trends |
| Spirituality and religion > Research trends |
| rēšîth (רֵשִׁית: Hebrew) | Notes | 17.3 |
| resurrecting gods | 8. Excerpts | Xella 2014 > Death of gods |
| resurrection | Notes | 22.9 |
| retribution | Bibliography | Cohen 2015 Problem Of Theodicy |
| Cohen 2015 Theodicy |
| revelation | 8. Excerpts | Buccellati 2024 > ‘Illumination’, revelation and intuition |
| Eliade 1958 > Nature is never purely “natural” |
| Bibliography | Artus 2015 Moise |
| Buccellati 1981 Wisdom |
| Notes | 1.6 |
| revenge | Bibliography | Marti 2015 Repentir |
| reviews | II. The Record | 9. Critical Reviews |
| revolution of symbols | 8. Excerpts | Cauvin 2000 > Symbols and symbolism |
| rhetoric | 9. Critical reviews | Mark Smith 2001 Monotheism |
| Bibliography | Ermidoro 2019 Repentant |
| Moshavi 2015rhetoric |
| Watts 2009 Rhetoric |
| Notes | 17.2 |
| righteous suffering | Bibliography | Snell 2010 Religions |
| rigmu (Akkadian) | Notes | 8.5 |
| rites | 8. Excerpts | Brelich 1976 > Rites |
| ritual | 8. Excerpts | Balentine 2020 |
| Davis 2016 |
| Bibliography | Bidmead 2002 Akitu |
| Ermidoro 2019 Repentant |
| Pongratz- Leisten 2015 Ideology |
| Renfrew 2012 Cognitive |
| Sommer 2000 Akitu |
| Tadmor 1975 Assyria West |
| Watts 2009 Rhetoric |
| Notes | 14.3 |
| 22.11 |
| ritual: definition | 8. Excerpts | Balentine 2020 > Definition of Ritual |
| ritual experts | 8. Excerpts | Balentine 2020 > Ritual Experts |
| ritualists | 8. Excerpts | Balentine 2020 > Ritual Experts |
| rituality | Bibliography | Oppenheim 1964 Mesopotamia |
| ritual journey | Notes | 2.15 |
| ritual objects | 8. Excerpts | Balentine 2020 > Ritual Objects |
| ritual practices | 8. Excerpts | Balentine 2020 > Ritual Practices |
| Notes | 13.4 |
| rituals | 4. Themes | Rituals in the |
| Time and Calendars in Mesopotamia |
| 8. Excerpts | Davis 2016 > Performance approach to rituals |
| Oppenheim 1964 > Ignorance of data |
| Oppenheim 1964 > Rituals |
| Xella 2014 |
| 9. Critical reviews | Lorenzo Viganò 1995 Ebla I |
| Lorenzo Viganò 1995 Ebla II |
| Marco Bonechi 1989 Ebla |
| Paolo Matthiae 2012 Culte |
| Bibliography | Ambos 2005 Rituale |
| Balentine 2020 Ritual |
| Brelich 1976 Prolegomeni |
| Cohen 2015 Problem Of Theodicy |
| Cohen 2015 Theodicy |
| Doak 2006 Justice |
| Ermidoro 2019 Ritualized Meals |
| Geertz 1973 Religion Cultural System |
| Hundley 2013 Examination |
| Lambert 1968 Myth Ritual |
| Nadali 2013 Ritual Art |
| Oates 1978 Religion |
| Quaegebeur 1993 Sacrifice |
| Schwemer 2011 Magic |
| Vigano 1995 Rituals |
| Vigano 2000 Rituals |
| Weeks 2015 Myth Ritual |
| Winter 1992 Idols |
| Notes | 5.1 |
| 13.1 |
| 13.3 |
| 16.2 |
| 22.3 |
| rituals: analysis | 8. Excerpts | Balentine 2020 > Analysis of Rituals |
| rituals: analysis (methodology) | 8. Excerpts | Balentine 2020 > Methodology of Analysis |
| rituals: Ancient Near East | 4. Themes | Rituals in the > 3. Rituals in the Ancient Near East |
| rituals: Ancient Near East and Israel | 4. Themes | Rituals in the > 5. Comparison between Ancient Near East and Israel |
| rituals and myths | 8. Excerpts | Balentine 2020 > Myths and Rituals |
| rituals: anthropology | 8. Excerpts | Balentine 2020 > Anthropology of Rituals |
| rituals at Mari | Bibliography | Durand 1997 Mari |
| rituals: behavioral view | 8. Excerpts | Balentine 2020 > Behavioral View |
| rituals: Ebla | 4. Themes | Rituals in the > 6. Cultic Rituals at Ebla/Tell Mardikh |
| rituals: function | 8. Excerpts | Balentine 2020 > Function of Rituals (1) |
| Balentine 2020 > Function of Rituals (3) |
| rituals: G. Buccellati’s view | 4. Themes | Rituals in the > 2. Giorgio Buccellati’s view |
| rituals: Hittites | 4. Themes | Rituals in the > B: “Rituals in the Hittite culture”Note 6 |
| rituals in Assyria | Bibliography | Muller 1937 Ritual |
| rituals: introduction | 4. Themes | Rituals in the > 1. General Introduction |
| rituals: Israel vs. Canaan | 8. Excerpts | Balentine 2020 > Relationships between Israel and Canaanite Rituals |
| rituals: meaning | 8. Excerpts | Balentine 2020 > Meaning of Rituals |
| rituals: Mesopotamia | 4. Themes | Rituals in the > A: “Rituals in Mesopotamia” |
| rituals: nature | 8. Excerpts | Balentine 2020 > Nature of Rituals |
| rituals: segmentations | 8. Excerpts | Balentine 2020 > Segmentation of Rituals |
| rituals: synthesis | 8. Excerpts | Balentine 2020 > Synthesis on Rituals |
| ritual times | 8. Excerpts | Balentine 2020 > Sacred and Rituals Times |
| RlA | 8. Excerpts | RdA |
| Roman conquest of Palestine | Notes | 23.3 |
| Roman religion | Bibliography | Snell 2010 Religions |
| royal ancestors | 9. Critical reviews | Paolo Matthiae 2012 Culte |
| royal annals | Bibliography | Langdon 1903 Ashurbanapal |
| Luckenbill 1924 Sennacherib |
| royal divinization | Bibliography | Brisch 2013 Divine Kingship |
| Glassner 1993 Roi Pretre |
| Vidal 2014 Divinization |
| royal ideology | 8. Excerpts | Pongratz-Leisten 2015 |
| Bibliography | Streck 2016 Wolves |
| royal images | Bibliography | Winter 1992 Idols |
| Notes | 16.2 |
| royal power as image of god | 8. Excerpts | Bottéro 1992 > Royal power as an image of god |
| sacralization | Bibliography | Brelich 1976 Prolegomeni |
| Notes | 22.4 |
| 23.3 |
| sacralization of statues | Notes | 18.3 |
| sacred | 8. Excerpts | Eliade 1958 |
| Bibliography | Brelich 1976 Prolegomeni |
| Notes | 3.7 |
| 22.4 |
| 23.3 |
| sacred marriage | Bibliography | Jacobsen 1975 Religious Drama |
| Jones 2003 Embracing |
| Lapinkivi 2004 Sumerian |
| Pongratz- Leisten 2008 Marriage |
| Van Buren 1944 Sacred Marriage |
| Notes | 16.5 |
| 18.3 |
| sacred: modalities | 8. Excerpts | Eliade 1958 > Modalities of the Sacred |
| sacred place | 8. Excerpts | Eliade 1958 > Nostalgia for eternity |
| sacred places | 8. Excerpts | Eliade 1958 > Sacred places |
| sacred prostitution | Bibliography | Roth 2006 Marriage |
| Westenholz 1989 Tamar |
| Notes | 13.6 |
| sacred space | Bibliography | Kang 2012 Eliade Duranki |
| Notes | 20.1 |
| sacred time | 8. Excerpts | Eliade 1958 > Nostalgia for eternity |
| Eliade 1958 > Sacred time |
| sacred times | 8. Excerpts | Balentine 2020 > Sacred and Rituals Times |
| sacred vs. mundane | 8. Excerpts | Eliade 1958 > Extended summary of {B}R/Eliade1958Patterns |
| sacrifice | 8. Excerpts | Achtemeier 1996 > Sacrifice |
| Balentine 2020 > Sacrifice |
| sacrifice of Isaac | Notes | 6.9 |
| 23.3 |
| sacrifices | 8. Excerpts | Brelich 1976 > Sacrifices |
| Bibliography | Brelich 1976 Prolegomeni |
| Burkert 1998 Creation |
| Collins 2004 Channel |
| Di Martino 2005 Archeozoologia |
| Furlani 1932 Sacrificio |
| Lafont 1999 Mari |
| Quaegebeur 1993 Sacrifice |
| Von Soden 1985 Einfuhrungen |
| Notes | 13.2 |
| 13.13 |
| 22.2 |
| sage in Israel and Mesopotamia | Bibliography | Gammie 1990 Sage |
| sages | 8. Excerpts | Gammie, Perdue 1990 |
| sages: Akkadian | 8. Excerpts | Gammie, Perdue 1990 > Akkadian sages |
| sages: Israel | 8. Excerpts | Gammie, Perdue 1990 > Sages in Israel |
| sages: Mesopotamia | 8. Excerpts | Gammie, Perdue 1990 > Sages in Mesopotamian court; the king |
| sages: Sumerian | 8. Excerpts | Gammie, Perdue 1990 > Sumerian sages |
| sages: Ugarit | 8. Excerpts | Gammie, Perdue 1990 > Sages at Ugarit |
| sanctions | Notes | 13.3 |
| sanctuaries | Bibliography | Galoppin &al 2022 Naming |
| sanctuary of silence | Bibliography | Knohl 1996 Prayer Temple |
| Sargon II, starry symbols | Bibliography | Worthington 2024 Sargon |
| Satan | Bibliography | Hamidovic 2015 Mastema |
| Rinaldi 1971 B O |
| Notes | 8.6 |
| satire | Bibliography | Alster 1975 Proverbs |
| šaziga (Sumerian) | Bibliography | Attinger 2005 A K |
| šà.zi.ga (Sumerian) | Bibliography | Biggs 1967 Shaziga |
| šaziga (Sumerian) | Notes | 13.10 |
| scapegoat | Notes | 13.13 |
| scapegoat (Hittites) | 8. Excerpts | Balentine 2020 > “Scapegoat” Ritual (Hittites) |
| scholarship | I. The Argument | 6. History of the Discipline > Scholarship and personal faith |
| science | 8. Excerpts | Bottéro 1992 > Science derives from divination |
| Notes | 4.2 |
| science of religion | I. The Argument | 6. History of the Discipline > The science of religion |
| scientific thought | Bibliography | Rochberg 2014 Divination |
| scribal knowledge | Bibliography | Rochberg 2015 Canonand Power |
| scribal tradition | Bibliography | Cohen 2018 Morality In Antiquity |
| secondary burials | Bibliography | Buccellati Kelly Buccellati 2005 Hurrian |
| Second Dynasty of Isin | Bibliography | Cohen 2015 Problem Of Theodicy |
| Cohen 2015 Theodicy |
| Second Temple period | Bibliography | Knohl 1996 Prayer Temple |
| secularization | 8. Excerpts | Eliade 1958 > Secularization of hierophany |
| sedentarism | 8. Excerpts | Liverani 2005 > Nomadism vs. sedentarism |
| šēdu (Akkadian) | Notes | 8.6 |
| seer | Notes | 10.1 |
| Sefirotic Tree | Bibliography | Parpola 1993 Tree |
| ṣelem (צֶלֶם: Hebrew) = ṣalmu (Akkadian) | Notes | 18.4 |
| self-consciousness | Bibliography | Buccellati 2012 Coerenza |
| semantics | 4. Themes | Semiotics and Semantics |
| šema` Yisra'el (שְׁמַע יִשְׂרָאֵל: Hebrew) | Notes | 2.15 |
| šema` Yisra'el (שְׁמַע יִשְׂרָאֵל: Hebrew) | Notes | 7.8 |
| šema` Yisrā'ēl (שְׁמַע יִשְׂרָאֵל: Hebrew) | Notes | 21.2 |
| semiotics | 4. Themes | Semiotics and Semantics |
| Sennacherib’s inscription | Notes | 22.8 |
| sensitivity | 8. Excerpts | Buccellati 2024 > Expertise and sensitivity |
| še’ôl (שְׁאוֹל: Hebrew) | Notes | 22.9 |
| seraphims | Notes | 8.6 |
| Series of Sidu | Bibliography | Cohen 2018 Morality In Antiquity |
| servility | Bibliography | Tenney 2017 Servility |
| settlements | Notes | 19.3 |
| seven ‘gods of the decrees’ | 8. Excerpts | Jacobsen 1976 > Assembly of gods |
| Seven Sages | Bibliography | Pongratz- Leisten 2010 Dreams |
| Reiner 1961 Etio Sages |
| Shakespeare’s ‘undiscovered country’ | Notes | 22.8 |
| shaman | Bibliography | Suddick 1990 Historical |
| Shamash | Notes | 8.4 |
| 9.4 |
| Shanidar Cave | Bibliography | Trinkaus 1983 Shanidar |
| shared traditions | Notes | 6.8 |
| Shawushka | Bibliography | Wegner 1981 Ishtar |
| Notes | 3.6 |
| shekinah (שכינה: Hebrew) | Notes | 20.6 |
| 21.3 |
| Shema | 8. Excerpts | Achtemeier 1996 > Shema |
| shepherd | Bibliography | Westenholz 2004 Shepherd |
| Shulgi-ili | Notes | 20.3 |
| Sidon | Bibliography | Xella 2014 Dieux |
| sign | Bibliography | Annus 2010 Divination |
| silence | Notes | 14.7 |
| šīmā(t)i šâmu (Akkadian) | Notes | 13.11 |
| Šimtu | 8. Excerpts | Oppenheim 1964 > Difference between polytheism and monotheism |
| Oppenheim 1964 > The meaning of Šimtu |
| šīmtu | Notes | 5.3 |
| šīmtu (Akkadian) | Notes | 5.3 |
| sin | 8. Excerpts | Achtemeier 1996 > Sin |
| Bibliography | Buccellati 1973 Adapa |
| Durand 2016 Entre |
| Durandetal 2015 Tabou |
| Lambert 1958 Morals |
| vander Toorn 1985 Sin Sanction |
| Notes | 4.4 |
| 6.6 |
| 8.5 |
| Sippar | Notes | 9.3 |
| šiptu (Akkadian) | Notes | 13.7 |
| 13.8 |
| šīra ṭubbu (Akkadian) | Notes | 22.8 |
| šīru (Akkadian) | Notes | 22.8 |
| skin disease | Bibliography | Volokhine 2015 Skin Diseases |
| sky | 8. Excerpts | Eliade 1958 > Sky and water symbolism |
| slavery | Notes | 2.10 |
| slavery: origins | 8. Excerpts | Buccellati 2024 > The origin of slavery |
| sleeping god | Bibliography | Batto 1987 Sleeping God |
| Notes | 7.10 |
| 14.3 |
| social context | Notes | 8.3 |
| Social stratification | 8. Excerpts | Oppenheim 1964 > Social Stratification |
| social texture | 8. Excerpts | Oppenheim 1964 > Ignorance of data |
| socio-political climate | Bibliography | Levine 2005 Assyrian Israelite Monotheism |
| solidarity | Bibliography | Buccellati 2012 Coerenza |
| Solomon | 8. Excerpts | Gammie, Perdue 1990 > Solomon as sage |
| Solomonic temple | 8. Excerpts | Liverani 2005 > Invention of the Solomonic Temple |
| song of Deborah | Bibliography | Freedman 1975 Early |
| song of the sea | Bibliography | Freedman 1975 Early |
| σοφία (sofía: Greek) | Notes | 14.7 |
| Sophocles | Notes | 8.5 |
| souls | 8. Excerpts | Oppenheim 1964 > Relationship between man and god |
| Sources | 10. Sources | Appendices |
| Appendix 10: Theophanic dreams |
| Appendix 11: Epiphanic dreams |
| Appendix 12: Proverbs |
| Appendix 13: Spells for “his release” (namburbi) |
| Appendix 14: Spells for “the rise of the heart” (šaziga) |
| Appendix 15: Spells of “incineration” (šurpu) |
| Appendix 16: Spells of the “stake” (maqlû) |
| Appendix 17: Personal names |
| Appendix 1: The moral canon: Šurpu |
| Appendix 2: Hymn to Enlil, the wind-god |
| Appendix 3: Hymn to Shamash, the sun-god |
| Appendix 4: Prayer to the “gods of the night” |
| Appendix 5: Omens based on anomalies in the world of animated beings |
| Appendix 6: Planetary omens |
| Appendix 7: Manual for a seer examining a sacrificed animal |
| Appendix 8: Omens based on oil and water |
| Appendix 9: References to prophetic episodes |
| sources | 8. Excerpts | Bottéro 1992 > Going to the source |
| Bottéro 1992 > Sources of knowledge about Mesopotamian religion |
| II. The Record | 10. Sources |
| space | Bibliography | Hodder 2010 Emergence |
| Mac Donald 2013 Palaeo- Philosophy |
| Wyatt 2001 Space Time |
| Notes | 22.5 |
| spacial turn | Bibliography | Galoppin &al 2022 Naming |
| speculative thought | 8. Excerpts | Frankfort 1949 |
| Bibliography | Frankfort 1949 Before |
| Spinoza | Notes | 7.11 |
| 8.1 |
| spirits | 8. Excerpts | Oppenheim 1964 > Mesopotamian ‘Psychology’ |
| Bibliography | Green 1984 Beneficent |
| Oppenheim 1964 Mesopotamia |
| spirits of the dead | Notes | 8.6 |
| spiritual entanglement | Bibliography | Hodder 2010 Emergence |
| spiritual hierarchy | Notes | 18.2 |
| spirituality | 1. Introduction | 1. Religion and spirituality |
| 1. Religion and spirituality > Spirituality: the original apprehension |
| 4. Themes | Religion and spirituality |
| Religion and spirituality > Spirituality: the original apprehension |
| Spirituality and Elementary Experience |
5.Monographs
The absolute | Spirituality and religion |
| Spirituality and religion > Spirituality: the original apprehension |
| Universals |
| Bibliography | Buccellati 1972 Teodicea |
| Hodder 2010 Emergence |
| Notes | 1.4 |
| 1.8 |
| 7.5 |
| 14.1 |
| spirituality: definition | 8. Excerpts | Buccellati 2024 > What we mean by spirituality |
| spirituality: Mesopotamia/Bible | 4. Themes | Mesopotamia and the Bible > Mesopotamian and biblical spirituality |
5.Monographs
The absolute | Mesopotamia and the Bible > Mesopotamian and biblical spirituality |
| spiritual metaphor | Notes | 17.1 |
| spiritual metaphor, cognitive theory | Bibliography | Moore 2009symbol |
| spontaneous prayers | Bibliography | Gabbay 2020 Thanksgiving |
| Notes | 14.2 |
| 14.3 |
| 14.5 |
| 14.6 |
| standing male worshipper | Notes | 15.2 |
| State | Notes | 16.5 |
| state formation | Notes | 19.3 |
| State religion | Bibliography | Dandamaev 1996 State |
| state rituals | 8. Excerpts | Pongratz-Leisten 2015 > State rituals |
| static presence | Notes | 21.4 |
| statues | 8. Excerpts | Balentine 2020 > Cultic Statues |
| stigmata | Bibliography | Volokhine 2015 Skin Diseases |
| stillness | Notes | 14.7 |
| Storm-god | Bibliography | Schwemer 2001 Wettergottgestalten |
| Storm-god as a warrior | 8. Excerpts | Cauvin 2000 > The religion of the bull |
| structural analysis | 8. Excerpts | Buccellati 2014 Time > A structural analysis |
| Buccellati 2024 > Structural analogy between religious systems |
| structural approach | Bibliography | Buccellati 1966 Bibbia |
| Notes | 2.2 |
| 2.5 |
| structural comparison | 8. Excerpts | Buccellati 2024 > Structural comparison |
| Bibliography | Buccellati 1972 Beatitudini |
| Notes | 2.2 |
| 2.3 |
| 2.5 |
| 2.13 |
| 5.3 |
| 10.1 |
| structural contrast | 4. Themes | Mesopotamia and the Bible > A structural contrast |
5.Monographs
The absolute | Mesopotamia and the Bible > A structural contrast |
| structuralism | Bibliography | Pace 1978 Structuralism |
| structure | 4. Themes | Structure |
| 8. Excerpts | Bottéro 1992 > Mesopotamian religion is connected to our civilization |
| Bibliography | Buccellati 2018 Voegelin |
| Notes | 2.6 |
| 6.1 |
| structure of Psalms | Bibliography | Fidanzio 2010 Composition |
| šûb (שׁוּב: Hebrew) | Notes | 14.6 |
| substitute rituals | Bibliography | Von Soden 1985 Einfuhrungen |
| suffering | 8. Excerpts | Achtemeier 1996 > Suffering |
| Bibliography | Buccellati 1972 Teodicea |
| Notes | 4.3 |
| 7.10 |
| suffering just man | Bibliography | Ziegler 2016 Juste |
| Šuḫurmaš(š)u | Bibliography | Green 1986 Note |
| Notes | 8.6 |
| šuilla | 8. Excerpts | Davis 2016 > Extended summary of {B}R/Davis2016Relating |
| Davis 2016 > Human-divine relationship in šuilla prayers |
| šuilla | Bibliography | Lenzi 2010 Invoking |
| šuilla (Akkadian) | Bibliography | Shuila |
| šuilla (Sumerian) | Bibliography | Davis 2016 Relating |
| Sumerian and Akkadian gods | Bibliography | Mander 2009 Religione |
| Sumerian dictionary | Bibliography | e P S D 2 |
| Sumerian Epistolary Miscellany | Bibliography | Kleinerman 2011 Epistolary |
| Sumerian grammar | Bibliography | Edzard 2003 Sumerian |
| Sumerian hymns | Bibliography | Falkenstein 1953 Hymnen |
| Falkenstein 1959 Sumerische |
| Jacobsen 1987 Harps |
| Sumerian King List | Bibliography | Marchesi 2010 S K L |
| Michalowski 1983 History |
| Sumerian King List (SKL) | Notes | 16.5 |
| Sumerian liturgies | Bibliography | Langdon 1919 Psalms |
| Sumerian prayer | Bibliography | Falkenstein 1953 Hymnen |
| Notes | 14.1 |
| Sumerian proverbs | Bibliography | Cohen 2018 Morality In Antiquity |
| Gordon 1968 Proverbs |
| Sumerian religion | Bibliography | Jestin 1976 Sumer |
| Pettinato 2007 Sumeri |
| Notes | 2.3 |
| Sumerian texts | Bibliography | E T C S L |
| Sumerian wisdom | Bibliography | Alster 2005 Wisdom |
| šumma (Akkadian) | Notes | 9.1 |
| Šumma izbu | Bibliography | De Zorzi 2014 Summa Izbu |
| Šumma izbu | Notes | 9.1 |
| Šumma izbu | Notes | 9.2 |
| Šumma Izbu (Akkadian) | Bibliography | Leichty 1970 Izbu |
| Leichty 1986 Catalogue |
| Leichty 1987 Catalogue |
| superhuman beings | 8. Excerpts | Brelich 1976 > Superhuman beings |
| superstition | Bibliography | Lambert 1990 Gods Superstition |
| Notes | 7.5 |
| Šurpu | Bibliography | Reiner 1958 Surpu |
| Notes | 8.1 |
| šurpu (Akkadian) | Bibliography | Geller 1980 Incantations |
| Geller 2010 Medicine |
| šurpu (Akkadian) | Notes | 8.1 |
| 13.10 |
| symbol and symbolism | Bibliography | Ornan 2005 Triumph |
| symbolic associations | Bibliography | De Zorzi 2011 Omina |
| symbolism | 8. Excerpts | Cauvin 2000 > Symbols and symbolism |
| Eliade 1958 > Nature is never purely “natural” |
| Bibliography | Mander 1998 Prospettive |
| Notes | 6.2 |
| symbols | 8. Excerpts | Cauvin 2000 > Symbols and symbolism |
| Bibliography | Cassirer 1946 Language |
| Geertz 1973 Religion Cultural System |
| symmetry | 4. Themes | Mesopotamia and the Bible > The case for symmetry |
5.Monographs
The absolute | Mesopotamia and the Bible > The case for symmetry |
| Symposium 203a | Notes | 7.11 |
| synchretism (Assyria) | 8. Excerpts | Pongratz-Leisten 2015 > The Takultu-Ritual and syncretism in Assyria |
| synchronic analysis | Bibliography | Buccellati 1996 Grammar |
| synchrony | Notes | 6.1 |
| syncretism | Bibliography | George 1992 B T T |
| Notes | 5.2 |
| synopses | II. The Record | 9. Critical Reviews |
| syntactical study | Bibliography | Albright 1940 A N Ereligion |
| synthesis (data) | Bibliography | Lynch 2024 Ph D |
| Syria | 8. Excerpts | Buccellati 2014 Profondo |
| Bibliography | Wegner 1981 Ishtar |
| Syrian (grammar) | Bibliography | Noldeke 1904 Syriac |
| Syrian pantheon | Bibliography | Xella 2014 Dieux |
| Syro-Palestinian religion | Bibliography | Holland 2010 Gods |
| Snell 2010 Religions |
| Notes | 2.3 |
| Tablet of Destinies | 8. Excerpts | Pongratz-Leisten 2015 > Oracle collections and prophetic historiography |
| Notes | 8.1 |
| 13.9 |
| tablets (of) stone | Notes | 8.1 |
| tablets (of) testimony | Notes | 8.4 |
| Tablets of the Law | 8. Excerpts | Achtemeier 1996 > Tablets of the Law |
| Tablet VI (Epic of Gilgamesh) | Notes | 12.3 |
| taboo | Bibliography | Brelich 1976 Prolegomeni |
| Durandetal 2015 Tabou |
| Piccin 2018 Mortality |
| taboos | 8. Excerpts | Brelich 1976 > Taboos |
| Bibliography | Frazer 1990 Golden |
| tabrītu (Akkadian) | Notes | 11.2 |
| Tacitus | Notes | 19.5 |
| takālu (Akkadian) | Notes | 7.10 |
| takultu-ritual | 8. Excerpts | Pongratz-Leisten 2015 > The Takultu-Ritual and syncretism in Assyria |
| Tale of the Poor Man of Nippur | Bibliography | Gurney 1956 Tale |
| Gurney 1972 Tale |
| Tammuz | 8. Excerpts | Oppenheim 1964 > Is Tammuz a “type” of later gods? |
| Notes | 22.9 |
| Tanakh | Bibliography | Buccellati 2020 Job |
| Tanakh |
| Tarߴam-Agade | Bibliography | Popa 2016 Agency |
| Targum | Bibliography | Van Staalduine 2002 Targum |
| Tb. 12, 15 | Notes | 8.6 |
| technical skill | Notes | 9.1 |
| technicians | 9. Critical reviews | Lorenzo Viganò 1995 Ebla I |
| technology | Bibliography | Lynch 2024 Ph D |
| teleology | Bibliography | Burkert 1998 Creation |
| Notes | 1.1 |
| Telipinu | Bibliography | Xella 2001 Quando |
| Telipinu Proclamation | Bibliography | Hoffner 1975 Propaganda |
| Tell Mardikh | 4. Themes | Rituals in the |
| 9. Critical reviews | Lorenzo Viganò 1995 Ebla I |
| Lorenzo Viganò 1995 Ebla II |
| Paolo Matthiae 2012 Culte |
| Tell Mozan | 8. Excerpts | Pongratz-Leisten 2015 > The Hurrians in Urkeš |
| 9. Critical reviews | Lorenzo Viganò 1995 Ebla II |
| templar institutions | Bibliography | Sterba 1976 Management |
| temple | 8. Excerpts | Balentine 2020 > Temple |
| Notes | 20.1 |
| Temple BA | Bibliography | Buccellati Kelly Buccellati 2005 Hurrian |
| Buccellati Kelly Buccellati 2007 Heaven |
| Buccellati Kelly Buccellati 2009 Temple |
| Notes | 20.1 |
| 20.2 |
| 20.3 |
| temple building inscriptions | Notes | 20.3 |
| temple cults | Bibliography | Knohl 1996 Prayer Temple |
| Notes | 14.3 |
| 20.4 |
| temple evolution | Notes | 20.2 |
| temple in Mesopotamia | Bibliography | Oppenheim 1944 Temple |
| temple names | Notes | 20.1 |
| Temple of Salomon | Bibliography | Temple Salomon |
| Notes | 20.4 |
| temples | 8. Excerpts | Achtemeier 1996 > Temples |
| Bibliography | Flannery 2012 Temples Inequality |
| George 1992 B T T |
| George 1993 Temples |
| Hundley 2013 Temples |
| Hurowitz 1992 Exalted |
| Notes | 19.4 |
| 20.2 |
| temple service | 8. Excerpts | Balentine 2020 > Temple Service |
| temple studies | Bibliography | Hart 2019 Temple Tent |
| Temple Terrace | Bibliography | Buccellati Kelly Buccellati 2009 Temple |
| Ten Commandments | Notes | 8.2 |
| τέρας (téras: Greek) | Notes | 9.2 |
| τέρατα (térata: Greek) | Notes | 11.3 |
| Terence | 1. Introduction | Notes > Terence |
| teslītu (Akkadian) | Notes | 14.1 |
| tetragrammaton | Bibliography | Buccellati 2007 Yahweh |
| Notes | 6.10 |
| Tetragrammaton | Notes | 18.1 |
| text | I. The Argument | 6. History of the Discipline > Text and critique |
| thanksgiving | Notes | 14.2 |
| thanksgiving hymns | Bibliography | Gabbay 2020 Thanksgiving |
| the holy of holies | Notes | 20.4 |
| thematic explorations | I. The Argument | 4. Thematic Explorations |
| themes | I. The Argument | 4. Thematic Explorations |
| theodicy | Bibliography | Bricker 2001 Innocent |
| Buccellati 1972 Teodicea |
| Buccellati 1981 Wisdom |
| Cohen 2015 Theodicy |
| Hamidovic 2015 Mastema |
| Von Soden 1985 Einfuhrungen |
| Notes | 3.2 |
| 4.3 |
| 7.10 |
| 8.4 |
| 8.5 |
| 12.2 |
| 12.4 |
| theoforic names | Bibliography | Cousin Watai 2016 Onomastics |
| theology | 8. Excerpts | Frahm 2011 > Theological statements |
| Bibliography | Lambert 1990 Gods Superstition |
| Morton 1952 Theology |
| Von Soden 1985 Einfuhrungen |
| Notes | 8.1 |
| theophany | 8. Excerpts | Achtemeier 1996 > Theophany |
| Notes | 3.6 |
| 11.2 |
| theophoric names | Notes | 14.2 |
| theory | Bibliography | Harsgor 1978 Annales |
| the sacred | Bibliography | Hart 2019 Temple Tent |
| thought | 8. Excerpts | Cornford 1957 > Excerpts from {B}R/Cornford1957Philosophy |
| Thucydides | Notes | 19.5 |
| Tiamat | Bibliography | Jacobsen 1968 Battle |
| Notes | 6.2 |
| 6.3 |
| tiham (Protoeuphratian) | Notes | 6.2 |
| time | 4. Themes | Time and Calendars in Mesopotamia |
| 8. Excerpts | Buccellati 2012 Coerenza |
| Buccellati 2014 Profondo |
| Buccellati 2014 Time |
| Bibliography | Buccellati 2014 Time |
| Cohen 2015 Calendars |
| Ermidoro 2017 Time |
| Hawking 1988 Time |
| Hodder 2010 Emergence |
| Mac Donald 2013 Palaeo- Philosophy |
| Menargues 2013 Time |
| Stern 2012 Calendars |
| Verderame 2006 Calendrier |
| Wyatt 2001 Space Time |
| Notes | 2.12 |
| 3.2 |
| 3.9 |
| 6.2 |
| 10.3 |
| 19.4 |
| 22.5 |
| 22.6 |
| time: cyclical vs. linear | Notes | 19.2 |
| 22.5 |
| time-dependent development (in research) | Bibliography | Lynch 2024 Ph D |
| tiruals: function | 8. Excerpts | Balentine 2020 > Function of Rituals (2) |
| titles | Bibliography | Lambert 1957 Ancestors |
| Torah | 8. Excerpts | Buccellati 2007 > Torah |
| totemic/shamanic beliefs | Bibliography | Schmidt 2011 Costruirono |
| touching presence | Bibliography | Durand 2016 Entre |
| Faivre 1995 Ambiguita |
| Notes | 6.6 |
| Tower of Babel | 8. Excerpts | Liverani 2005 > The Tower of Babel |
| Bibliography | Bisi 2011 Babel |
| Notes | 6.8 |
| tradition | Bibliography | Buccellati 2004 Second |
| Pongratz- Leisten 2010 Dreams |
| transcendence | 8. Excerpts | Buccellati 2014 Profondo > Perception and transcendence |
| Buccellati 2014 Time > The transcendence |
| Eliade 1958 > Nature is never purely “natural” |
| Bibliography | Buber 1937 Iandthou |
| Buccellati 2014 Time |
| Rochberg 2011 Heavens Gods |
| Notes | 3.8 |
| 7.3 |
| transcendentality | Bibliography | Buccellati 2014 Time |
| Notes | 3.8 |
| transitive | Notes | 7.3 |
| transitivity | 4. Themes | Transitivity, intransitivity |
| 8. Excerpts | Buccellati 2024 > On transitivity and intransitivity |
| Bibliography | Jacobsen 1970 Formative |
| trans-temporality | Bibliography | Buccellati 2014 Time |
| trauma | Bibliography | Boase 2016 Trauma |
| Houck- Loomis 2018 Trauma |
| treaty in the Bible | Notes | 8.3 |
| tree of life | 8. Excerpts | Eliade 1958 > Plant symbolism |
| Bibliography | Estes 2020 Tree |
| Parpola 1993 Tree |
| tribal origin | 8. Excerpts | Liverani 2005 > Tribal origin |
| tribe | Notes | 6.6 |
| tribe of Levi = Levites | Notes | 22.11 |
| Trinitarian relationship | Notes | 25.3 |
| Trinity | 8. Excerpts | Buccellati 2007 > Trinity and nature of God |
| Buccellati 2012 Trinità |
| Buccellati 2013 |
| Buccellati 2013 > The Trinity and the absolute |
| Bibliography | Buccellati 2007 Yahweh |
| Buccellati 2012 Trinità |
| Buccellati 2013 Trinity |
| Notes | 5.1 |
| 5.2 |
| 6.10 |
| Trisagion | Notes | 3.7 |
| ṭup šimā(t)i (Akkadian) | Notes | 5.3 |
| Tyre | Bibliography | Xella 2014 Dieux |
| Ugarit | 8. Excerpts | Xella 2014 |
| 9. Critical reviews | Mark Smith 2001 Monotheism |
| Paolo Matthiae 2012 Culte |
| Bibliography | Morton 1952 Theology |
| Schmidt 1991 Beneficent |
| Xella 2014 Dieux |
| Ugaritic pantheon | Bibliography | Xella 2014 Dieux |
| Ugaritic texts | Bibliography | Ugaritica V |
| ugārum (Akkadian) | Notes | 22.7 |
| understanding | 8. Excerpts | Buccellati 2014 Profondo > Perception and understanding |
| Underworld | Bibliography | Collins 2004 Channel |
| Notes | 22.8 |
| unity | Bibliography | Pongratz- Leisten 2011 Divine Agency |
| Notes | 17.4 |
| universal | 5.Monographs
The absolute | Universals |
| universal order | Notes | 16.2 |
| universal terms | 8. Excerpts | Buccellati 2024 > On the existence of universal terms |
| unpredictability | Notes | 2.10 |
| unpronunciability of God’s name | 8. Excerpts | Buccellati 2007 > Unpronunciability |
| un-writtable religion (Mesopotamia) | 8. Excerpts | Oppenheim 1964 > Why a Mesopotamian Religion Should Not Be Written |
| Ur III | Bibliography | Buccellati 1966 Amorites |
| Urkeš | 8. Excerpts | Pongratz-Leisten 2015 > The Hurrians in Urkeš |
| Urkesh | 9. Critical reviews | Lorenzo Viganò 1995 Ebla II |
| Bibliography | Asher Greve 2013 Goddesses |
| Braun Holzinger 2013 Gotterdarstellung |
| Buccellati Kelly Buccellati 2005 Hurrian |
| Buccellati Kelly Buccellati 2007 Heaven |
| Buccellati Kelly Buccellati 2009 Temple |
| Collins 2004 Channel |
| Di Martino 2005 Archeozoologia |
| Kelly Buccellati 1996 Seals |
| Kelly Buccellati 2002 Unterwelt |
| Kelly- Buccellati 2005 Urkesh |
| Popa 2016 Agency |
| Urkesh |
| Wegner 1981 Ishtar |
| Wissing 2012 Ritual |
| Notes | 8.6 |
| 11.7 |
| 13.11 |
| 13.14 |
| 20.1 |
| 20.2 |
| 20.3 |
| 22.3 |
| 22.8 |
| Uruk | Bibliography | Liverani 2006 Uruk |
| Notes | 9.3 |
| ‘useless’ knowledge | 8. Excerpts | Bottéro 1992 > The nobility of “useless” knowledge |
| Utnapishtim | Notes | 7.8 |
| 8.5 |
| 11.2 |
| 22.8 |
| utukku (Akkadian) | Notes | 8.6 |
| 22.8 |
| Utu/Shamash | Notes | 6.4 |
| values | 8. Excerpts | Bottéro 1992 > True and false values |
| Bibliography | Facchini 2002 Origini |
| VAT 10057 | Bibliography | Loktionov 2016 V A T 10057 |
| vectoriality of the absolute | 8. Excerpts | Buccellati 2013 > “Vectoriality” of the absolute |
| vegetation cults | 8. Excerpts | Eliade 1958 > Plant symbolism and the drama of life |
| Venus tablets | Bibliography | de Jong 2010 Venus |
| Gurzadyan 2000 Astronomical |
| Gurzadyan 2000 Chronology |
| Gurzadyan 2003 Venus |
| Gurzadyan 2005 Chronology |
| Huber 1982 Venus |
| Langdon 1928 Venus |
| Rawlinson 1870 Venus |
| Reiner 1975 Venus |
| Rendu 2012 Venus |
| Walker 1984 Venus |
| Weir 1972 Venus |
| Weir 1982 Venus |
| Weir 1998 Venus |
| verification | Notes | 10.7 |
| version: current | 1. Introduction | Preface > The current version |
| versions | 1. Introduction | Relationship to the Four Banks > Archival versions |
| III. Utilities | 15. Archives > Versions |
| verticality | 8. Excerpts | Eliade 1958 > Verticality |
| Vico, Gianbattista | Notes | 4.2 |
| villages and first cities | Bibliography | Mellaart 1967 Catal |
| violence | Bibliography | Hodder 2010 Emergence |
| Notes | 4.4 |
| virtual | Notes | 20.2 |
| waiting | 8. Excerpts | Buccellati 2007 > Messianism |
| warrior god | Bibliography | Romer 2016 Y H W H |
| water | 8. Excerpts | Eliade 1958 > Sky and water symbolism |
| wayyiḥeyû (וַיִּחְיוּ: Hebrew) | Notes | 17.6 |
| web-like structure | Bibliography | Lynch 2024 Ph D |
| “When on High the Heavens…” (book) | 8. Excerpts | Buccellati 2024 |
| When on High the Heavens (book, English) | Bibliography | Buccellati 2024 When |
| When on High the Heavens (book, Italian) | Bibliography | Buccellati 2012 Quando |
| Wis. 1, 1-2 | Notes | 7.10 |
| Wis. 1, 13-15, human choice | Notes | 8.5 |
| Wis. 3, 1-6 | Notes | 7.10 |
| wisdom | 8. Excerpts | Achtemeier 1996 > Wisdom |
| Buccellati 1981 |
| Gammie, Perdue 1990 |
| Bibliography | Buccellati 1972 Beatitudini |
| Clifford 2007 Wisdom |
| Cohen 2013 Wisdom |
| Mander 2009 Religione |
| Reiner 1961 Etio Sages |
| Reiner 1982 Fürstenspiegel |
| Notes | 1.1 |
| 12.2 |
| 13.2 |
| wisdom and propaganda | 8. Excerpts | Gammie, Perdue 1990 > Solomon as sage |
| wisdom literature | Bibliography | Boase 2016 Trauma |
| Kleinerman 2011 Epistolary |
| Xella 2001 Quando |
| Notes | 12.2 |
| wisdom literature in Israel and Ancient Near East | Notes | 12.2 |
| wisdom texts | Bibliography | Buccellati 1972 Teodicea |
| Streck 2011 Dialogues |
| Streck 2014 Wisdom |
| Streck 2016 Wolves |
| Notes | 4.3 |
| 12.2 |
| witchcraft | Bibliography | Abusch 2002 Witchcraft |
| Abusch 2020 Corpus |
| Hoffner 1975 Propaganda |
| Notes | 13.9 |
| witness | 8. Excerpts | Eliade 1958 > Bearing witness to “something else” |
| woman and bull | 8. Excerpts | Cauvin 2000 > Woman and Bull |
| woman and the bull | Bibliography | Balter 2005 Catalhoyuk |
| women | 8. Excerpts | Eliade 1958 > The pearl |
| Gammie, Perdue 1990 > Role of women |
| Bibliography | Popa 2016 Agency |
| women, gender roles | Bibliography | Gadotti 2016 Women |
| women in rituals | Bibliography | Popa 2016 Agency |
| words | 1. Introduction | 1. Religion and spirituality > Words and concepts |
| 4. Themes | Religion and spirituality > Words and concepts |
5.Monographs
The absolute | Spirituality and religion > Words and concepts |
| word vectorization | Bibliography | Lynch 2024 Ph D |
| worms and toothache | Bibliography | Suddick 1990 Historical |
| Notes | 17.3 |
| worship | 4. Themes | Rituals in the |
| Rituals in the > 2.2 Chapter 22: Worship |
| 8. Excerpts | Achtemeier 1996 > Worship |
| worship: Israel | 4. Themes | Rituals in the > 4. Worshipping God in ancient Israel |
| worship of natural forces | 8. Excerpts | Jacobsen 1976 > Nature |
| worship rituals | 8. Excerpts | Balentine 2020 > Worship Rituals |
| writing | 8. Excerpts | Bottéro 1992 |
| Bibliography | Buccellati 2014 Time |
| Mander 2009 Religione |
| Yahdun-Lim | Notes | 19.1 |
| Yahwe | Bibliography | Buccellati 2007 Yahweh |
| Yahweh | 8. Excerpts | Buccellati 2007 |
| Buccellati 2013 |
| Davis 2016 > Human-divine relationship in Biblical laments |
| Bibliography | Batto 1987 Sleeping God |
| Levine 2005 Assyrian Israelite Monotheism |
| Smith 2001 Origins |
| Notes | 14.3 |
| yāmîm (יָמִים: Hebrew) | Notes | 19.5 |
| YHWH | 9. Critical reviews | Mark Smith 2001 Monotheism |
| Bibliography | Buccellati 2007 Yahweh |
| Notes | 6.10 |
| yir’ā (יִירָא: Hebrew) | Notes | 7.10 |
| Yom Kippur | 8. Excerpts | Achtemeier 1996 > Atonement, Day of |
| yôm kippur (יֹּום כִפֻּר: Hebrew) | Notes | 13.13 |
| Zafimaniry | Bibliography | Hodder 2010 Emergence |
| zākar (זָכַר: Hebrew) | Notes | 14.6 |
| zealotry | 8. Excerpts | Achtemeier 1996 > Monotheism |
| ziggurat | Bibliography | Mc Mahon 2016 Ziggurat |
| Notes | 5.1 |
| 20.2 |
| Zimri-Lim | Bibliography | Arkhipov 2019 Zimri- Lim |
| Ziusudra | Notes | 7.8 |