The labyrinth : further studies in the relation between myth and ritual in the ancient world / edited by S. H. Hooke.
Contributor(s): Hooke, S. H. (Samuel Henry) | Deedes, C. N | Burrows, Eric | Johnson, Aubrey R | Oesterley, W. O. E. (William Oscar Emil) | Rankin, Oliver Shaw | James, E. O. (Edwin Oliver) | Hocart, A. M. (Arthur Maurice)
Publisher: London : Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge, [1935].Description: xiv, 288 p. : ill. (incl. plan) plates ; 22 cm.Subject(s): MythOwnership: ANE copy has the bookplate of Percy E. NewberryItem type | Home library | Collection | Shelving location | Call number | Copy number | Status | Date due | Barcode | Item holds | |
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Book | British Museum | Middle East | Shelves | 1434G (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | 1 | Available | ME000000004856 | |||
Book | British Museum | Royal Anthropological Institute | Open Shelves | KFO9 [HOO-] (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | 1 | Available | L1494 |
"The present volume of essays continues the theme set forth in an earlier series entitled Myth and ritual." -- p. v.
The essays by Burrows, Johnson, Oesterley, Hooke, and Hogart were delivered as lectures at King's college, London, in 1933. cf. p. ix.
Contents: The labyrinth, by C. N. Deedes -- Some cosmological patterns in Babylonian religion, by Eric Burrows -- The rôle of the king in the Jerusalem cultus, by A. R. Johnson -- The cult of Sabazios, by W. O. E. Oesterley -- The festival of Hanukkah, by O. S. Rankin -- The myth and ritual pattern in Jewish and Christian apocalyptic, by the editor -- The sources of Christian ritual, by E. O. James -- The life-giving myth, by A. M. Hogart.
ANE copy has the bookplate of Percy E. Newberry.
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