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اثر حضارة بلاد الرافدين في شعوب سورية القديمة (2800 - 539 ق. م) : المعتقدات الدينية والادب انموذجا == The Impact Of The Civilization Of Mesopotamia, On The Ancient Syrian Peoples (2800 - 539. B.C.) Religious Beliefs And Literature As An Example
Author name:
عبد اللطيف عائد عباس صويلح التميمي
Supervisor name:
عامر حمزة حسين الغريب
General topic:
History
Specific topic:
Ancient History
Degree:
Master
University:
University of Baghdad - College Of Literature
Language:
Arabic
University location:
Baghdad
First pages:
11T2346 - p.pdf
Abstract:
The civilization of Mesopotamia is one of authentic civilizations that have influenced many nations and ancient peoples, and became the focus of interest since ancient times, benefiting from its creativity and circulating its news, especially in the religious and literary sides, and among those people affected by the civilization of Mesopotamia are the peoples of ancient Syria. Our study, therefore, is an attempt to penetrate in that influence, despite the fact that many of the researches and theses have addressed this subject, but they did not address the impact of the civilization of Mesopotamia in ancient Syrian peoples, with respect to religious and literary sides, it has not received enough study and analysis. Hence the importance of studying the topic has emerged because it highlights the important aspect of the originality of the civilization of Mesopotamia, and the extent to which the ancient Syrian peoples got affected by these two sides. Our study consists of three chapters preceded by a prologue that addresses the authenticity of the civilization of Mesopotamia and provides archaeological evidence of that authenticity. The first chapter, within three sections, discusses religion characteristics, literature, and the factors that contributed to their spread, while the second chapter which also included three sections, addresses Mesopotamian religious influences in the ancient Syrian religion, including the gods, rituals of the doctrine of the fertile, daily acts of worship, building of the temples, burial ritual, and the priests. The third chapter, in its three sections, deals with literary influences of Mesopotamian myths, epics, poetry, and the wisdom literature. The study concluded the most important findings of the researcher and the most important of which are the following : 1 - The civilization of Mesopotamia is characterized with the authenticity and originality the roots of which extend in the depth of human existence. That has been shown clearly through exhibiting a number of archaeological examples that showed that originality.2 - One of the most important factors that have helped to spread the Mesopotamian religious beliefs and moral codes is trade that contributed to the delivery of the civilization of Mesopotamia to neighboring and distant countries. In addition, the military expansion carried out by the kings of Mesopotamia had a significant impact in these two aspects of the spread of civilization. 3 - The religions of the peoples of ancient Syria are noted to have been affected by the characteristics of the religion of Mesopotamia, such as multiple gods and other aspects that those peoples borrowed various rituals and acts of worship the origins of most of them go back to Mesopotamia and they added to them some characteristics as they wish.4 - Most of the ugaritic and biblical myths are noted to have Mesopotamian roots, that the ugaritic and biblical writer quoted a lot of the texts of literature, especially those that are related to the myths, legends, and poetry, in addition to that the ugaritic got influenced by the Mesopotamian advice and guidance. The writers of the Old Testament were familiar with the Mesopotamian wisdom, especially the wisdom of Ahiqar, the Assyrian laureate sage, from which they quoted the educational wisdom texts. They introduced lot of the Mesopotamia texts in the texts of the biblical books after altering and employing them in accordance with their religious views
Summary:
11T2346 - A.pdf
References:
11T2346 - R.pdf
