The Ritual Background of the Dying God in Cyprus and Syro-Palestine

In Frazer's Golden Bough the leading instance of the central figure whom he called “the dying god” was Adonis, famous from Greco-Roman literature and art but firmly localized in Semitic Phoenicia, Syria, and Cyprus. Since Frazer wrote, his other Near Eastern instances have been so transformed b...

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Main Author: Robertson, Noel (Author)
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Language:English
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Published: Cambridge Univ. Press 1982
In: Harvard theological review
Year: 1982, Volume: 75, Issue: 3, Pages: 313-359
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