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Middle East mythology may refer to: Mythologies of the ancient Near East. Mesopotamian mythology; Egyptian mythology; Hittite mythology and religion; Abrahamic religions. Jewish mythology; Christian mythology; Islamic mythology; Mythologies of ethnic groups in the Middle East. Religion in pre-Islamic Arabia
The Ancient Gods: The History and Diffusion of Religion in the Ancient Near East and the Eastern Mediterranean, 1960. Leick, Gwendolyn. A Dictionary of Ancient Near Eastern Mythology Routledge, London & New York, 2003. Pritchard, James B., (ed.). The Ancient Near East: An Anthology of Texts and Pictures. Princeton University Press, New Jersey ...
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Hitti, Phillip K. (2002), History of The Arabs (Revised ed.), Macmillan International Higher Education, ISBN 9781137039828; Hoyland, Robert G. (2002), Arabia and the Arabs: From the Bronze Age to the Coming of Islam, Routledge, ISBN 1134646348; Jordan, Michael (2014), Dictionary of Gods and Goddesses, Infobase Publishing, ISBN 978-1438109855
3.1.16 Swords from Middle Eastern mythology. ... Sword of Victory (also Phra Saeng Khan Chaiyasi), the sword's history has been shrouded in myth and legend.
The term Near East can be used interchangeably with Middle East, but in a different context, especially in discussing ancient history, it may have a limited meaning, namely the northern historically-Aramaic-speaking Semitic people area and adjacent Anatolian territories, marked in the two maps below.
The belief in witchcraft in the Middle East has a long history. Belief in witchcraft as malevolent magic is attested from ancient Mesopotamia.In ancient Judaism, there existed a complex relationship with magic and witchcraft, with some forms of divination accepted by some rabbis, yet most viewed as forbidden or heretical.
It therefore largely corresponds with the modern-day geopolitical concept of the Middle East. The history of the ancient Near East begins with the rise of Sumer in the 4th millennium BC, though the date that it ends is a subject of debate among scholars; the term covers the region's developments in the Bronze Age and the Iron Age, and is ...