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Between City, King, and Empire: Will the Real “Lady of Byblos” Please Stand Up?
Journal of Ancient Near Eastern Religions Pub Date : 2021-04-16 , DOI: 10.1163/15692124-12341316
Michael J. Stahl 1
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Who was the goddess known anciently as the “Lady of Byblos”? Typically, scholars have tried to answer this question by identifying the goddess’s “true” proper name. By contrast, this article emphasizes the goddess’s primary identification by the city of Byblos as a social-political community in order to analyze the Lady of Byblos’s role in shaping Late Bronze Age Byblos’s political landscape, which included imperial, royal, and collective modes of governance. The goddess’s place in Byblos’s political-religious economy thus serves as a fruitful case study for better conceptualizing through the lens of religion the complex range of potential interactions in the ancient world between centralizing and decentralizing political forces as parts of a single social-political system. In this way, the Lady of Byblos may “stand up” not only as an integral member of Byblos’s social order and religious life, but also as an example of the fundamental role that deities played in shaping ancient political realities.



中文翻译:

在城市,国王和帝国之间:请问真正的“比布鲁斯女士”会站起来吗?

谁是古代被称为“比布鲁斯夫人”的女神?通常,学者们试图通过识别女神的“真实”专有名称来回答这个问题。相比之下,本文强调了女神对比布鲁斯市的初步认同,认为这是一个社会政治共同体,目的是分析比布鲁斯夫人在塑造晚青铜时代比布鲁斯的政治格局中的作用,其中包括帝国,皇家和集体治理模式。因此,女神在比布鲁斯的政治宗教经济中的地位可作为一个富有成果的案例研究,可通过宗教的角度更好地概念化古代世界中集中和分散政治力量之间的潜在相互作用的复杂范围,而这些相互作用是单个社会政治系统的一部分。这样,

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