The variety of local religious life in the Near East in the Hellenistic and Roman periods
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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Leiden ; Boston :
Brill,
2008.
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| Series: | Religions in the Graeco-Roman world,
v. 164 |
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| Online Access: | http://site.ebrary.com/lib/ucy/Doc?id=10363802 |
Table of Contents:
- Introduction / Ted Kaizer
- The aniconic image of the Roman Near East / Milette Gaifman
- Sanctuaries and villages on Mt. Hermon during the Roman period / Julien Aliquot
- Religious architecture in the Roman Near East : temples of the basalt lands (Trachon and Hauran) / Arthur Segal
- Artemis and Zeus Olympios in Roman Gerasa and seleucid religious policy / Achim Lichtenberger
- How to be a bad Samaritan : the local cult of Mt. Gerizim / Jonathan Kirkpatrick
- Man and god at Palmyra : sacrifice, lectisternia and banquets / Ted Kaizer
- Tradition and change in the beliefs at Assur, Nineveh and Nisibis between 300 BC and AD 300 / Peter W. Haider
- Aspects of Hatrene religion : a note on the statues of kings and nobles from Hatra / Lucinda Dirven
- Ephraem Syrus and the solar cult / Jθurgen Tubach.