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Weekly Assignment 6

Weekly Assignment 6

Q Weekly Assignment #6 due Thursday, November 7th by 12pm - preferably by Wednesday night. Read and submit a page (total) summary of impressions from the two following: a. "The Care and Feeding of the Gods," in A. Leo Oppenheim, Ancient Mesopotamia, pp. 183-198 b. Nelson, Oppenheim, and Wright, "Significance of the Temple in the Ancient Near East," in Biblical Archaeologist 7 (1944):41ff. (= pp. 169-184 in G. E. Wright and D. N. Freedman, eds., Biblical Archaeologist Reader, 1 [1975]).

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In case of “The Care and Feeding of the Gods”, there is an impression about the ways in which images of gods and goddesses from the time of the Mesopotamian civilization had been accepted. There is also emphasis on the aspect of rejection of images of God from the time of the Judeo-Christian period. The images of gods and goddesses during the Mesopotamian civilization can be observed to possess bodies of human beings modified or added with something additional to make the images look extraordinary. This is because there had been attempts to make the images look authoritative, dominating and limitlessly powerful.