ancient Near Eastern religion
C28629
concept
Ancient Near Eastern religion encompasses the diverse, interconnected religious beliefs, rituals, and mythologies of civilizations such as Sumer, Akkad, Babylonia, Assyria, Canaan, and Israel from the Bronze and Iron Ages.
Observed surface forms (4)
- Iron Age Levantine religion ×1
- Northwest Semitic myth ×1
- West Semitic religion ×1
- ancient Near Eastern ideology ×1
Instances (9)
- Assyrian religion
- Mesopotamian religion
- Ugaritic Baal Cycle via concept surface "Northwest Semitic myth"
- Nabataean religion
- Hurrian religion
- Urartian religion
- cult of Elagabal
- Sumerian royal ideology via concept surface "ancient Near Eastern ideology"
- Ancient Israelite religion via concept surface "West Semitic religion"