Entre dieux et hommes : anges, démons et autres figures i...
Römer, Thomas / Dufour, Bertrand / Pfitzmann, Fabian / Uehlinger, Christoph
It has long been an important issue for many religions, both ancient and modern, to imagine and question the differences between humans and deities as well as their means to communicate between each other. Ancient Near Eastern texts and iconography conceive this relationship in more than binary terms (i.e., human vs. divine): they presume the existence of various intermediate and often liminal entities, whom scholars have usually classified in...