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Conoid seal, Gaza, Iron Age IIB (ca. 830–700 BCE). Source: Keel, Corpus der Stempelsiegel-Amulette aus Palästina/Israel, Band IV, 129 fig. 3.

August 10, 2021

Cognitive Science and the Ancient Near Eastern Religious Imagination

Ancient religions imagined all sorts of animals and demons. Cognitive science suggests how humans understood these hybrids, and when they became too much to comprehend.