Sacred Marriages: The Divine-human Sexual Metaphor from Sumer to Early ChristianityMartti Nissinen, Risto Uro Pennsylvania State University Press, 2008 - 543 עמודים The title of this volume, Sacred Marriages, consciously plays with the traditional concept of sacred marriage, but the plural form, "sacred marriages," gives the reader an idea that something more is at stake here than a monomaniacal idea of manifestations deriving from a single prototype. Following the guidelines of one of the contributors, Ruben Zimmermann, the editors tentatively define "sacred marriage" as a "real or symbolic union of two complementary entities, imagined as gendered, in a religious context." "Sacred marriages" (plural), then, refers to various expressions of this kind of union in different cultures that seek to overcome, to cite Zimmermann again, "the great dualism of human and cosmic existence." The subtitle indicates that the contributors are primarily interested in different aspects of the divine-human sexual metaphor--that is, the imagining and reenactment of a gendered relationship between the human and divine worlds. This metaphor, which is essentially about relationship rather than sexual acts, can find textual, ritual, mythical, and social expressions in different times and places. Indeed, the sacred marriage ritual itself should be considered not a manifestation of the "sacralized power of sexuality experienced in sexual intercourse" but one way of objectifying the divine-human sexual metaphor. |
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... idea of creation via the sexual union of two deities may also be influenced by classical mythology . 38 A Judaic form of this idea can also be found in Wisdom 8-9 or even in Prov 8 : 22-31 . Philo probably makes use of this tradition ...
... idea seems conceptually incompat- ible with the idea of the incarnation , which regards Jesus as a preexistent being . The systematic theologian Wolfhart Pannenberg argues that there is a much sharper contradiction between preexistence ...
... idea of an impending messianic wedding feast is not spe- cifically Johannine . John's Gospel does not envisage a wedding feast or a future marriage of either the " sower " or the " grain of wheat . " In the earliest Christian texts , the ...
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The Sumerian Sacred Marriage and Its Aftermath in Later Sources | 7 |
Sacred Marriage and the Devotees of Ištar | 75 |
Sacred Marriage in the Ugaritic Texts? The Case of KTUCAT 1 23 | 93 |
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