PÂINEA ZEULUI - ASPECTE RELIGIOASE ȘI SIMBOLICE ALE PANIFICAȚIEI
The Bread of God: religious and symbolic aspects of bakery
Author(s): Lucian GrozeaSubject(s): Christian Theology and Religion, Philosophy, Social Sciences, Philosophical Traditions, Communication studies, Theology and Religion
Published by: Editura Universitatii LUCIAN BLAGA din Sibiu
Keywords: showbread; bakery; Ancient Near East; eternal life; divine bread; cultual food; Holy Bible; Eucharist; Christian liturgy;
Summary/Abstract: The present conference discusses the symbolic meaning of bread in thereligious mentality of the Ancient Near East. We will find that bread, besides being afood necessary for its existence, also represented a cultural archetype that summed upand assumed in itself either different divinities of Oriental civilizations, or had a ritualsacrificialcharacter, in order to facilitate man rather immortality.
Journal: SAECULUM
- Issue Year: 47/2019
- Issue No: 1
- Page Range: 171-175
- Page Count: 5
- Language: Romanian