The Riddle of Resurrection: "dying and Rising Gods" in the Ancient Near East

Adonis Adonis gardens Akkadian Alster Amarna letters Anat ancient Aqhat Ashtart Atallah attested Attis Baal cycle Baal's death Baudissin 1911 bilocation Bonnet Burkert Byblos celebration century B.C.E. Chap chthonic conclusion connection context cult cultic Damascius Damu Dea Syria dead death and resurrection death and return descensus Dietrich and Loretz discussion divine Dumuzi dying and rising Egyptian Ereshkigal Eshmun evidence festival Frazer funerary goddess Greek Heracles heros Inanna Inanna's Descent interpretation Ishtar's Descent J.Z. Smith Khoiak king Lady of Byblos Late Bronze Age Lipinski M.S. Smith material Melqart Mesopotamian Mettinger Moor motif mourning Müller mytheme mythological Netherworld Ningishzida notion Osiris Pardee passage Phoenician Pyrgi Pyrgi inscription reference religion resurrection of Adonis rising deity rising gods rites ritual scholars seasonal seems Shapsh Sidon Sumerian symbolism Syria Tammuz Telepinu temple Theocritus tion translation Ugarit vegetation verb West Semitic Xella