Bibliography on the Nature of Divine

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A Bibliography of Works on the Nature of the Divine



From a forthcoming paper -

HERE A GOD, THERE A GOD:
AN EXAMINATION OF THE DIVINE IN ANCIENT MESOPOTAMIA

By Michael B. Hundley





See, e.g., the Fara God Lists (Gebhard J. Selz, “'The Holy Drum, the Spear, and the Harp': Towards an Understanding of
the Problems of Deification in Third Millennium Mesopotamia,” in Sumerian Gods and Their Reprsentations [eds. I. L.
Finkel and M.J. Geller; Cuneiform Monographs 7; Groningen: Styx, 1997], 171-172) and the Assyrian tākultu ritual
(Menzel, Tempel II, no. 54 (K. 252), T 113-125 and 61 [VAT 10126], T 138-144; see earlier R. Frankena, Tākultu: De
Sacrale Maaltijd in het Assyrische Ritueel met een Overzicht de in Assur Vereerde Goden [Leiden: Brill, 1954]). See
further šurinnu, CAD Š/3 345-346; B. Pongratz-Leisten, K Deller and E. Bleibtreu, “Götterstreitwagen und
Götterstandarten: Götter auf dem Feldzug und ihr Kult im Feldlager,” BaM 23 (1992): 291-356; Selz, “Holy Drum”; A.
R. George, “Four Temple Rituals from Babylon,” in Wisdom, Gods and Literature: Studies in Assyriology in Honour of
W. G. Lambert (eds. A. R. George and I. L. Finkel; Winona Lake: Eisenbrauns, 2000), 289-299; Beaulieu, Pantheon of
Uruk; Porter, “Feeding Dinner to A Bed: Reflections on the Nature of Gods in Ancient Mesopotamia,” State Archives of
Assyria Bulletin 15 (2006): 307-331; Porter, “The Anxiety of Multiplicity: Concepts of the Divine in Ancient Assyria,"
in One God or Many? Concepts of Divinity in the Ancient World (ed. Porter; Transactions of the Casco Bay
Assyriological Institute 1; Casco Bay, ME: Casco Bay Assyriological Institute, 2000), 211-272; see esp. the evidence
and analysis in Porter, “Blessings.”