Sacred Marriage

Select Bibliography

Cooper, J. S.

1993 “Sacred Marriage and Popular Cult in Early Mesopotamia”, in Matsushima, E. (ed.), Official Cult and Popular Religion in the Ancient Near East,Heidelberg, 1993, pp.81-96.

Frayne, D. R.

1985 “Notes on The Sacred Marriage Rite”, BiOr 42 (1985), pp.5-22.

Kramer, S. N.

1969 The Sacred Marriage Rite, Bloomington, 1969.
[= Le mariage sacre a Sumer et Babylone (traduit et adapte par J. Bottéro, Paris, 1983)].

Matsushima, E.

1985a “Le lit de Íamaß et le rituel de mariage a l’Ebabbar”, ASJ 7 (1985), p.37.

1985b “Une documentation accadienne du rituel du mariage divin”, Receuil de travaux de l’U.A. 1072, CNRS (France) 1985, pp.92-113.

1987 “Le rituel hierogamique de Nabû”, ASJ 9 (1987), pp.131-75.

1988 “Les rituels du mariage divin dans les documents accadiens”, ASJ 10 (1988), pp.95-128.

Renger, J.

“Heilige Hochzeit”, RLA 4, pp.251-59.

Steinkeller, P.

1999 “On Rulers, Priests and Sacred Marriage: Tracing the Evolution of Early Sumerian Kingship,” in Watanabe, K. (ed.), Priests and Officials in the Ancient Near East: Papers of the Second Colloquium on the Ancient Near East – The City and its Life, Heidelberg, 1999, pp.103-137.

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