While attention in old Egyptian culture was largely centred on existence after death, the concerns of Mesopotamia were almost exclusively with the present. A significant part of the cultural energy of ancient Mesopotamia was devoted to keeping human actions in harmony with the divine, so as to ward off such misfortunes as natural catastrophes, war, sickness and premature death. A…
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Maul, Stefan (Heidelberg),
Jansen-Winkeln, Karl (Berlin),
Haas, Volkert (Berlin),
Niehr, Herbert (Tübingen),
Wiesehöfer, Josef (Kiel),
Bremmer, Jan N. (Groningen) and
Briquel, Dominique (Paris),
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