The result was merge to Names of God. Liz Read! Talk! 07:58, 11 January 2024 (UTC)
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Seems like a WP:DICDEF to me, although I am honestly unsure. I imagine most sources are WP:OFFLINE. We also have [1] and [2] and some rather in-depth discussion about divine names already at names of God. I am not sure if a redirect there is appropriate, would appreciate other editors to weigh in. Darcyisverycute ( talk) 03:55, 28 December 2023 (UTC)
The first genre that probably comes to mind in Assyryology when someone mentions a large list of divine names is the lexical god-list genre, a genre that developed over the course of more than two thousand years in ancient Mesopotamia.
— Allen, Spencer Loren (2015). "The Divine Hierarchy and Embedded God Lists (EGLs)". The Splintered Divine: A Study of Istar, Baal, and Yahweh Divine Names and Divine Multiplicity in the Ancient Near East. Studies in Ancient Near Eastern Records. Vol. 5. Walter de Gruyter. ISBN 9781614512363., p.95
Already in the Early Dynastic period, scribes attempted to bring some order to the confusing number of known deities by compiling lists of divine names.
— Leick, Gwendolyn (2009). "Gods and Goddesses". Historical Dictionary of Mesopotamia. Historical Dictionaries of Ancient Civilizations and Historical Eras (2nd ed.). Scarecrow Press. ISBN 9780810863248., p.77
There is an awful lot to say (from just the rest of that chapter of Allen 2015 alone, let alone the other umpteen) merely about the one facet of the subject of how people spent millennia making lists of divine names. Nothing changes in human nature. I suspect that if the scribes were alive today, they'd be making lists in Wikipedia. Except that for the ancient ones we have scholarship about how confusing to the subsequent readers they are. ☺[…] the noted French Assyriologist Jean Nougayrol once remarked that nothing illustrates the immobility of Babylonian religion better than the long lists of divine names copied unchanged for nearly two millennia. […] The fixed character of the WGL over centuries should not be taken as a sign of stagnation. Rather, […]
— Tugendhaft, Aaron (2016). "Gods on clay: Ancient Near Eastern scholarly practices and the history of religions". In Grafton, Anthony; Most, Glenn W. (eds.). Canonical Texts and Scholarly Practices. Cambridge University Press. ISBN 9781107105980., p.170
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The result was merge to Names of God. Liz Read! Talk! 07:58, 11 January 2024 (UTC)
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Seems like a WP:DICDEF to me, although I am honestly unsure. I imagine most sources are WP:OFFLINE. We also have [1] and [2] and some rather in-depth discussion about divine names already at names of God. I am not sure if a redirect there is appropriate, would appreciate other editors to weigh in. Darcyisverycute ( talk) 03:55, 28 December 2023 (UTC)
The first genre that probably comes to mind in Assyryology when someone mentions a large list of divine names is the lexical god-list genre, a genre that developed over the course of more than two thousand years in ancient Mesopotamia.
— Allen, Spencer Loren (2015). "The Divine Hierarchy and Embedded God Lists (EGLs)". The Splintered Divine: A Study of Istar, Baal, and Yahweh Divine Names and Divine Multiplicity in the Ancient Near East. Studies in Ancient Near Eastern Records. Vol. 5. Walter de Gruyter. ISBN 9781614512363., p.95
Already in the Early Dynastic period, scribes attempted to bring some order to the confusing number of known deities by compiling lists of divine names.
— Leick, Gwendolyn (2009). "Gods and Goddesses". Historical Dictionary of Mesopotamia. Historical Dictionaries of Ancient Civilizations and Historical Eras (2nd ed.). Scarecrow Press. ISBN 9780810863248., p.77
There is an awful lot to say (from just the rest of that chapter of Allen 2015 alone, let alone the other umpteen) merely about the one facet of the subject of how people spent millennia making lists of divine names. Nothing changes in human nature. I suspect that if the scribes were alive today, they'd be making lists in Wikipedia. Except that for the ancient ones we have scholarship about how confusing to the subsequent readers they are. ☺[…] the noted French Assyriologist Jean Nougayrol once remarked that nothing illustrates the immobility of Babylonian religion better than the long lists of divine names copied unchanged for nearly two millennia. […] The fixed character of the WGL over centuries should not be taken as a sign of stagnation. Rather, […]
— Tugendhaft, Aaron (2016). "Gods on clay: Ancient Near Eastern scholarly practices and the history of religions". In Grafton, Anthony; Most, Glenn W. (eds.). Canonical Texts and Scholarly Practices. Cambridge University Press. ISBN 9781107105980., p.170
Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion and clearer consensus.
Relisting comment: Relisting to see if there is more support for a Merge to this target article.
Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks,
Liz
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04:40, 4 January 2024 (UTC)