Frontispiece

pp ii-ii

Violence and the Sacred in the Ancient Near East - Title page

pp iii-iii

Copyright page

pp iv-iv

Contents

pp v-vi

Figures

pp vii-viii

Tables

pp ix-x

Contributors

pp xi-xii

Preface

pp xiii-xiv

Part I - Introduction

pp 1-38

1 - Setting the Archaeological Scene

pp 3-27

2 - Introduction to the Thought of René Girard

pp 28-38

Part II - Violence and the Sacred

pp 39-150

3 - Death in Çatalhöyük

pp 41-59

4 - A Girardian Framework for Violent Injuries at Neolithic Çatalhöyük in Their Western Asian Context

pp 60-95

5 - Ritual Practices and Conflict Mitigation at Early Neolithic Körtik Tepe and Göbekli Tepe, Upper Mesopotamia

pp 96-128

6 - Paired Leopards and Encircled Prey

pp 129-150

Part III - The Dialectics of Mimesis

pp 151-232

7 - Mimetic Theory, the Wall Paintings, and the Domestication, De-domestication, and Sacrifice of Cattle at Çatalhöyük

pp 153-164

8 - The Ordeal of the Town

pp 165-187

9 - Stretching Girard’s Hypothesis

pp 188-208

10 - Girard’s Anthropology vs. Cognitive Archaeology

pp 209-232

Part IV - Conclusion

pp 233-248

11 - Religion as a Factor in the Development of Settled Life

pp 235-248

Index

pp 249-260