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" Is There Anything New under the (Mediterranean) Sun? Expressions of Near Eastern Deities in the Graeco-Roman World "
Daniel R. Miller

Document Type	:	AL
Record Number	:	1082943
Doc. No	:	LA126572
Call No	:	‭10.1163/15743012-12341268‬
Language of Document	:	English
Main Entry	:	Daniel R. Miller
Title & Author	:	Is There Anything New under the (Mediterranean) Sun? Expressions of Near Eastern Deities in the Graeco-Roman World [Article]\ Daniel R. Miller
Publication Statement	:	Leiden: Brill
Title of Periodical	:	Religion and Theology
Date	:	2014
Volume/ Issue Number	:	20/3-4
Page No	:	345–370
Abstract	:	The concept of divine translatability was a prominent feature of Graeco-Roman religion. Major deities of the Greek and Roman pantheons had their origins in the ancient Near East, and the Greeks and Romans equated members of their pantheons with ancient Near Eastern divinities having similar characteristics and functions. This study employs salient examples of equations and correspondences between the Graeco-Roman and ancient Near Eastern pantheons, as well as attestations of multiple manifestations of the same deity based on function or geographic region, as a heuristic device for problematizing the issue of divine translatability in general. It is asserted that a deity is but a projection of human will, a signifier without a signified. This, in turn, locates the phenomenon of divine translatability within the realm of the subjective, making any reasonable “translation” of two or more deities as valid as any other, with no external adjudication of the matter possible.
Descriptor	:	cult
Descriptor	:	deity
Descriptor	:	Egypt
Descriptor	:	General
Descriptor	:	Greece
Descriptor	:	History of Religion
Descriptor	:	Mesopotamia
Descriptor	:	Religion Society
Descriptor	:	Religious Studies
Descriptor	:	Rome
Descriptor	:	sign
Descriptor	:	Social Sciences
Descriptor	:	Theology and World Christianity
Descriptor	:	translatability
Location & Call number	:	‭10.1163/15743012-12341268‬