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Space and time are basic features of the world-view, even the theology, of many religions, ancient and modern. How did the world begin, and how will it end? What is the importance of religious architecture in symbolizing sacred space? Where and how do we locate the self? The divine world? Wyatt’s textbook treats ancient Near Eastern religions from a perspective that allows us to access how...

There are limits to this, unless it is transformed by the ever-repeated memory into epic and myth, by which time it will have lost its historical anchorage. 1.8.3 But imagine the quantum leap in a community’s capacity to ‘remember’ through narrative when it can commit the tradition to writing. Suddenly the remote past, far beyond narrative memory, can be brought up in the mind: stories of battles long ago, of the rise and fall of empires, of how we came to live here and own this territory, or why
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