The Materiality of Divine Agency.

Acknowledgments -- Preface -- Contents -- Abbreviations -- List of Illustrations -- Contributors -- Part I: The Material Divine: Anthropomorphism, Animation, and Agency in Cross-Cultural Perspective -- Between Cognition and Culture: Theorizing the Materiality of Divine Agency in Cross-Cultural Perspective -- The Animation and Agency of Holy Food: Bread and Wine as Material Divine in the European Middle Ages -- Part II: Divine Materials, Materiality, and Materialization in Mesopotamia -- "What Goes In Is What Comes Out" - But What Was Already There? Divine Materials and Materiality in Ancient Mesopotamia -- Imperial Allegories: Divine Agency and Monstrous Bodies in Mesopotamia's Body Description Texts -- Divine (Re-)Presentation: Authoritative Images and a Pictorial Stream of Tradition in Mesopotamia -- Part III: A Feast for the Senses: Visual and Auditory Engagement with the Divine and Divine Agents in the Ancient Near East -- Seeing and Socializing with Dagan at Emar's zukru Festival -- The Voice of Mighty Copper in a Mesopotamian Exorcistic Ritual -- Index.