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It includes author’s methodological notes on neutral terminology, transliteration practices, and citation conventions, complemented by maps, illustrations, glossaries, notes, bibliography, and an index.","‘I wish you wouldn’t keep appearing and vanishing so suddenly: you make one quite giddy!’  \n‘All right,’ said the Cat; and this time it vanished quite slowly, beginning with the end of the tail, and ending with the grin, which remained sometime after the rest ofit had gone.  \n‘Well! I’ve often seen a cat without a grin,’ thought Alice; ‘but a grin without a cat! It’s the most curious thing I ever saw in all my life!’  \nAlice ’s Adventures in Wonderland, by Lewis Carroll (1865)  \nContents  \nAuthor ’s Note  \nMaps  \nList of Illustrations  \nPrologue  \nINTRODUCTION  \n1. Dissecting the Divine  \nPART I: FEET AND LEGS  \n2. Grounded  \n3. Footloose  \n4. Sensational Feet  \nPART II: GENITALS  \n5. Cover Up  \n6. Phallic Masculinities  \n7. Perfecting the Penis  \n8. Divine Sex  \nPART III: TORSO  \n9. Back and Beyond  \n10. Inside Out  \n11. From Belly to Bowel  \nPART IV: ARMS AND HANDS  \n12. Handedness  \n13. Arm’s Reach  \n14. Divine Touch  \n15. Holy Handbooks  \nPART V: HEAD  \n16. Face to Face  \n17. Headstrong Beauty  \n18. Profile  \n19. Sense and Sensitivity  \n20. Gasp and Gulp  \nEPILOGUE  \n21. An Autopsy  \nGlossary  \nNotes  \nBibliography  \nAcknowledgements  \nIndex  \nAuthor ’s Note  \nThis book deals with places, peoples and deities that can be known by many different names – some of which are culturally and politically loaded.  \nWhere possible, I have tried to use neutral or general terms without sacrificing historical or geographical precision. In particular, I have deliberately avoided employing the more usual label ‘ancient near East’. Tobe blunt, it is Western-centric and freighted with colonial baggage (much like its older metonym,‘the Orient’) . Instead, I refer to ‘ancient south-west Asia’. This book also draws on primary sources written in a number of ancient languages. For the benefit of the reader, I have kept transliterations simple, primarily with an eye to helping pronunciation (for example,‘Ashur ’ rather than ‘Assur’,‘Asshur’, or ‘Aššur’) . Occasionally, I have jettisoned strict consistency in favour of transliterated words and phrases as they are more commonly seen. Biblical quotations follow the New Revised Standard Version and its versification, although I have modified its (confessional) translation where necessary, especially when dealing with the Bible’s pre-Christian texts.  \nList ofIllustrations  \nColour plates  \nPlate 1. Divine footprints at an Iron Age temple in ‘Ain Dara, north-western Syria. Photo: © Phillip Gorny.  \nPlate 2. Monument depicting Naram-Sin trampling his enemies, originally from Sippar, Mesopotamia, c. 2250 BCE. Musée du Louvre, Paris. Photo: Ali Meyer / Bridgeman Images.  \nPlate 3. Ceremonial sandals, from the tomb of Tutankhamun (KV62), Valley of the Kings, West Thebes. Egyptian Museum, Cairo. JE 62685. Photo: Laboratorio Rosso.  \nPlate 4. Figurine of a deity (El or Baal?) wearing wedged sandals, Hazor, Israel, fourteenth century BCE. Collection of the Israel Antiquities Authority. Photo: © Israel Museum, Jerusalem.  \nPlate 5. Moses removes his sandals at the burning bush, mosaic, sixth century CE. Basilica of St Catherine’s Monastery, Sinai. Photo:  \nReproduced by permission of St Catherine’s Monastery, Sinai, Egypt. Plate 6. Michelangelo, The Risen Christ, Monastero San Vincenzo Martire, Bassano Romano. Photo: © Alessandro Vasari Photography.  \nPlate 7. Mosaic depicting the baptism of Christ, sixth century CE. Arian Baptistery, [Ravenna. Photo: Boris Breytman/Dreamstime.com](Ravenna. Photo: Boris Breytman/Dreamstime.com).  \nPlate 8. Willem Key (attrib.), Pietà , painting, early sixteenth century. Alte Pinakothek, Munich. Photo: Bridgeman Images.  \nPlate 9. Ludwig Krug, The Man of Sorrows, engraving, c. 1510–1532. British Museum, London. Photo: © The Trustees of the British Museum.  \nPlate 10. Terracotta plaque figurine of a goddess (usually identified as Asherah), c. 1250 BCE. Found near Kibbutz Revadim, Israel. Collection of the Israel Antiquities Authority. 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