In this book devoted exclusively to temples and perceptions of the divine presences that inhabit them, Michael B. Hundley focuses on the official religions of the ancient Near East and explores the interface between the human and the divine within temple environs.

Hundley identifies common ancient Near Eastern temple systems and examines issues that include what temple structures communicate, how temples were understood to function, temple ideology, the installation of divine presence in a temple, the connection between presence and physical representation, and human service to the deity.

Drawing on architectural and spatial theory, ritual theory, theories of language, art history, archaeology, sociocultural anthropology, and comparative studies, Hundley offers a single interpretive lens through which to view temple worship.

Features:

• A close examination of temples in Egypt, Mesopotamia, Hittite Anatolia, and Syria-Palestine
• An interdisciplinary treatment of architecture, language, ritual, and art

• A dual focus on how a deity's divine presence connects to space and art and how human service to the deity maintains the deity's active presence

在这本专门讨论神庙和对居住在神庙中的神灵的看法的书中，迈克尔-B-亨德利专注于古代近东的官方宗教，并探讨了在神庙环境中人类和神灵之间的联系。

亨德利确定了常见的古代近东神庙系统，并研究了包括神庙结构所传达的信息、神庙如何被理解为功能、神庙意识形态、神庙中神的存在的安装、存在与物理表现之间的联系，以及人类对神的服务等问题。

在建筑和空间理论、仪式理论、语言理论、艺术史、考古学、社会文化人类学和比较研究的基础上，亨德利提供了一个单一的解释视角来看待神庙崇拜。

特点。

对埃及、美索不达米亚、赫梯安纳托利亚和叙利亚-巴勒斯坦的神庙进行了仔细研究

对建筑、语言、仪式和艺术进行跨学科处理

对神灵的神圣存在如何与空间和艺术相联系以及人类对神灵的服务如何维持神灵的积极存在的双重关注