Pure blood, impure blood : blood rituals in pre-classical Mesopotamia

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Speaker(s)

Laura Battini

CNRS, UMR 7192

Events

Created with the blood of the rebel. The myth of Atram-hasîs and his vision of man

Blood in ancient Egypt

Were the Assyrians bloodthirsty ? The place of blood in Assyrian royal rhetoric

Symposium

24 May 2018

2:15 - 2:45pm

Dorothea Erbele-Küster

" His blood on him ". Capital punishment in the Hebrew Bible

The symbolic use of animals in ritual : a zooarchaeological perspective

Red blood, red wine at Ugarit : comparing archaeological and textual documentation

Pure blood, impure blood : blood rituals in pre-classical Mesopotamia

Greek blood between pure and impure

Is Yhwh afraid of blood ? Blood, circumcision and Passover

Blood, sacrifice and rites of passage

Blood and centralized worship (Leviticus 17)

Alliances and consanguinity in the Amorite period

Blood and pharmacopoeia in Mesopotamia

War, taboo and sacrifice. Blood rites invoked against Hellenistic domination (Zechariah 9)

The trade in sacrificial blood according to the Mishna

Symposium

25 May 2018

3:00 - 3:30pm

Ágnes Anna Motisi-Nagy

Bloodlust : ancient images of the cannibal as bloodthirsty barbarian and treacherous he…

The blood economy, from the Koran to Muslim Islam

A summary of the symposium from an anthropological perspective

Pure blood, impure blood : blood rituals in pre-classical Mesopotamia

Speaker(s)

Laura Battini

Events

Opening

The ritual uses of blood in the Hebrew Bible

Mesopotamian blood

Created with the blood of the rebel. The myth of Atram-hasîs and his vision of man

Blood in ancient Egypt

Were the Assyrians bloodthirsty ? The place of blood in Assyrian royal rhetoric

" His blood on him ". Capital punishment in the Hebrew Bible

The symbolic use of animals in ritual : a zooarchaeological perspective

Red blood, red wine at Ugarit : comparing archaeological and textual documentation

Pure blood, impure blood : blood rituals in pre-classical Mesopotamia

Greek blood between pure and impure

Is Yhwh afraid of blood ? Blood, circumcision and Passover

Blood, sacrifice and rites of passage

Blood and centralized worship (Leviticus 17)

Alliances and consanguinity in the Amorite period

Blood and pharmacopoeia in Mesopotamia

War, taboo and sacrifice. Blood rites invoked against Hellenistic domination (Zechariah 9)

The trade in sacrificial blood according to the Mishna

Bloodlust : ancient images of the cannibal as bloodthirsty barbarian and treacherous he…

The blood economy, from the Koran to Muslim Islam

A summary of the symposium from an anthropological perspective

Fence

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