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SUMMARY:The Desert Origins of God: Yahweh's Emergence and the Materiality 
 of Desert Cult in the Southern Levant and Northern Arabia
DTSTART:20190715T140000Z
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DESCRIPTION:This conference seeks to explore and contextualize the configu
 ration of the varied desert cultic practices from the southern Levant and 
 northern Arabia during the Late Bronze/Iron Ages that may have contributed
  to the emergence of the Yahwis-tic cult. Recent archaeological excavation
 s in the Negev\, southern Transjordan and Hejaz and new interpretations of
  old epigraphic and iconographic evidence are ra-pidly changing the biblic
 al-based paradigm of the interactions between the desert cults and the Iro
 n Age Levantine religions.\n\nThe conference adopts an interdisciplinary a
 pproach\, assessing textual\, archaeolo-gical\, as well as epigraphic data
 . The papers presented here contribute in a unique way to big historical q
 uestions of the LBA/IA desert religions: Was there something unique in the
  desert cults? How were the religious experiences shaped by the interactio
 ns between the local rituals and the sanctuary cults that penetrated from 
 the agricultural lands? The conference also touches the much wider debate 
 of the role played by trade–in copper\, incense\, pastoral products–an
 d cultural intercon-nections in the diffusion of religious ideas. It parti
 cularly explores how these data relate to those religious practices attest
 ed in Judah and Israel of the later Iron Age and beyond\, thereby providin
 g new insights into the prehistory of the Yahweh cult.\n\nProgramm
LOCATION:CERES Palais\, room "Ruhrpott" (4.13)
URL:https://ceres.rub.de/en/events/desert-origins-god/
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