Table of Contents

Michael B. Dick, ‘Prophetic Parodies of Making the Cult Image’

Christopher Walker and Michael B. Dick, ‘The Induction of the Cult Image in Ancient Mesopotamia: The Mesopotamian mis pi Ritual’

David Lorton, ‘The Theology of Cult Statues in Ancient Egypt’

Joanne Punzo Waghorne, ‘The Divine Image in Contemporary South India: The Renaissance of a Once Maligned Tradition’

Reviews

"This is an interesting, most welcome collection. It is a major contribution, providing a much-needed, interdisciplinary (philological and anthropological) study of a long-neglected, maligned topic that by its very nature demands use of comparative material...this long-overdue book is an enlightening, fascinating, and significant step towards understanding cult statues as perceived by their proponents and opponents."--Victor Avigdor Hurowitz, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev in Journal of the American Oriental Society(121.3, 2001)