The Old Testament scholar Izak (Sakkie) Cornelius has devoted his ongoing scholarly career to the cultures of the ancient Near East (including North Africa and Western Asia). In accordance with a focal point of his scientific research several of the studies assembled in this festschrift are devoted to the images of the divine and to that of goddesses in particular, encompassing the antiquities of Israel/Palestine, Egypt and the Near East.

Preface  /  Table of Contents  / List of Contributors  / List of Abbreviations

Renate M. van Dijk-Coombes / Liani C. Swanepoel / Gideon R. Kotzé: From Stone Age to Stellenbosch: An Introduction to the Volume

Silvia Schroer: Were Goddesses already Worshipped in the Early Chalcolithic Period? 

Salima Ikram: A Great Cat Walks South: A Petroglyph from Kharga Oasis (Egypt) 

Renate M. van Dijk-Coombes: The Many Faces of Enheduanna’s Inana: Literary Images of Inana and the Visual Culture from the Akkadian to the Old Babylonian Period

Takayoshi M. Oshima / Alison Acker Gruseke: She Walks in Beauty: An Iconographical Study of the Goddess in a Nimbus 

Christian Frevel: The Many Faces of the Goddess: Sekhmet

Angelika Berlejung: Another Face of the Goddess: A Terracotta Plaque from Qubur al-Walaydah

Astrid Nunn: Frauenbildnisse und ihre Gesten

Katharina Pyschny: Feeding, Nursing, Caring … : Some Notes on the Woman and Child Figurines from Persian Period Israel/Palestine

Louis C. Jonker: A Conflation of Divine and Royal Imagery? The Case of the Winged Symbol in Achaemenid Persia

Herbert Niehr: Die Beterstatue von Tell Fekheriye als Dokument der Königsideologie des Herrschers Haddayisʿi von Bīt Baḫiāni

Martin Leuenberger: Yahweh and His Asherah in the Three Pithoi Inscriptions from Kuntillet ʿAjrud: A Re-evaluation 

Izaak J. de Hulster: The Horizontal Dimension of the Ancient and Biblical View of the World

Gideon R. Kotzé: Looking again at the Nakedness of Noah 

Joel M. LeMon: Clapping and Shouting in Psalm 47:2 with Attention to the Iconography of Applause 

Ruhan Slabbert / Liani C. Swanepoel: Fake, Pseudo or True? Classifying Two Votive Animal Mummies from a South African Museum

Samantha Masters / Franziska Naether: South Africa and the Ancient World: Artefacts and Their Use in Teaching and Outreach

Index of Ancient Sources / Index of Authors / Index of Subjects