Between the Real and Ideal: Efficacy in an Ancient Mesopotamian Building Ritual

This article investigates how ritual transforms the ordinary into something extraordinary. It is the capacity of ritual to differentiate, and to be differentiated from other activities, that provides a group with a framework for seeing what they are doing as being meaningfully different than ordinar...

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Authors: Gabbay, Uri 1975- (Author) ; Susnow, Matthew (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
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Published: Brill 2024
In: Numen
Year: 2024, Volume: 71, Issue: 4, Pages: 393-427
Further subjects:B foundation deposits
B Mesopotamia
B temple building ritual
B Figurines
B Ritualization
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