The Physicality of the Other

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The Physicality of the Other

Masks from the Ancient Near East and the Eastern Mediterranean

Edited by Angelika Berlejung and Judith E. Filitz

[Die Leibhaftigkeit des Anderen. Antike Masken aus dem Vorderen Orient und dem östlichen Mittelmeerraum.]

2018. X, 570 pages.

Orientalische Religionen in der Antike (ORA)

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This volume presents the conference proceedings of the international and interdisciplinary conference held in Leipzig from November 9 to 11, 2015. Scholars from different research areas presented masks from Egypt, Israel/Palestine, Syria, Mesopotamia, Phoenicia, Cyprus, and Greece from the third to the first millennium BCE. In addition, the volume includes an archaeological catalogue of the masks from Israel/Palestine of the Neolithic Age until the Persian Period.

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Angelika Berlejung is Professor for "History and Religion of Israel and its Environment" at the Faculty of Theology of the University of Leipzig, an Extraordinary Professor for Ancient Studies at the University of Stellenbosch/South Africa, a Visiting Full Professor for Biblical Archaeology at Bar Ilan University/Israel, and a Full Member of the Saxon Academy of Sciences.

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Judith E. Filitz Geboren 1984; Studium der Ev. Theologie und Theaterwissenschaft in Leipzig, Halle/Saale und Jerusalem; 2012-18 wissenschaftliche Mitarbeiterin am Institut für Alttestamentliche Wissenschaft der Universität Leipzig; 2018 Promotion; seit 2018 Vikarin in der Lippische Landeskirche.