The Variety of Local Religious Life in the Near East

in the Hellenistic and Roman Periods

Autori vari

Editore Brill

€ 136,00

€ 129,20 Risparmia 5%

edited by Ted Kaizer

pp. XX-330, 76 figg. b/n f. t., Leiden - Boston

data stampa: 2008

codice isbn: 978900416735

A 'Near Eastern religion', along the lines of 'Greek religion' or 'Roman religion', is hard to distinguish for the Classical period, since the religious cultures of the many cities, villages and regions that constituted the Near East in the Hellenistic and Roman periods were, despite some obvious similarities, above all very different from each other. This collection of articles by scholars from different disciplines (Ancient History, Archaeology, Art-History, Epigraphy, Numismatics, Oriental Studies, Theology) contributes to our quest for understanding the polytheistic cults of the Near East as a whole by bringing out the variety between the different local and regional forms of worship in this part of the world.

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Acknowledgements

List of contributors

Abbreviations

List of plates

Ted Kaizer Introduction

Milelle Gaifman The aniconic image of the Roman Near East

Julien Aliquot Sanctuaries and villages on Mt Hermon during the Roman period

Arthur Segal Religious architecture in the Roman Near East: temples of the basalt Iands (Trachon and Hauran)

Achim Lichtenberger Artemis and Zeus Olympios in Roman Gerasa and Seleucid religious policy

Jonathan Kirkpatrick How to be a bad Samaritan: the local cult of Mt Gerizim

Ted Kaizer Man and god at Palmyra: sacrifice, lectisternia and banquets

Peter W. Haider Tradition and change in the beliefs at Assur, Nineveh and Nisibis between 300 BC and AD 300

Lucinda Dirven Aspects of Hatrene religion: a note on the statues of kings and nobles from Hatra

Jurgen Tubach Ephraem Syrus and the solar cult

Bibliography

Indices

Index locorum

Index of geographical and place names

Index of divine and mythological names

Index of personal names

General index

Plates

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