Assyriology  . Hebrew & Jewish Studies

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Lut De Block

Sint-Pietersplein 6, room 2.03
Address: Sint-Pietersplein 6, B-9000 GHENT (Belgium)

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Research

Lut De Block graduated in 2002 as Master in Philosophy on a dissertation: ‘Mortality: a challenge for life’. One of the chapters dealt with the Gilgamesh-epos and hence the link with the literature and the cultures of the ANE was obvious. On a colloquium at Ghent University (26/2/03) regarding the excavations at Pessinus (Turkey) she held a lecture on ‘the myth of the mother goddess’ and as from that time her interest in female spirituality in general and the worship of goddesses in the ANE in specific has been growing. The lecture was programmed at several locations e.g. the Koninklijk Museum voor Schone Kunsten, Antwerp and the Volkshogeschool Moritoen, Brughes. In November 2005 she started a PhD research aiming an epistemological audit and interdisciplinary analysis of the goddess Inana. A review of the Inana-corpus throughout history is put up, from her early appearance in the Sumerian cuneiform up to the feminist literature and female spirituality religious studies. Lut De Block is also a poet and aims to integrate in her doctoral dissertation a creative part in which the goddess operates as a poetical metaphor to discuss existential themes such as the divine, the feminine and the autarky of human nature.

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Selected publications

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