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1 online resource (2 volumes) : illustrations, maps, plans |
| Contents |
v. I. From the Bronze Age to the Hellenistic age / edited by Michele Renee Salzman, Marvin A. Sweeney. Part I. Mesopotamia and the Near East. Sumerian religion / Graham Cunningham -- Assyrian and Babylonian religions / Tammi J. Schneider -- Hittite religion / Gary Beckman -- Zoroastrianism / Prods Oktor Skjærvø -- Syro-Canaanite religions / David P. Wright -- Israelite and Judean religions / Marvin A. Sweeney -- Part II. Egypt and North Arica. Egyptian religion / Denise M. Doxey -- Phoenician-Punic religion / Philip C. Schmitz -- Part III. Greece and the eastern Mediterranean. Minoan religion / Nanno Marinatos -- Mycenaean religion / Ian Rutherford -- Archaic and classical Greek religion / Emily Kearns -- Part IV. The western Mediterranean and Europe. Etruscan religion / Nancy T. de Grummond -- Roman religion through the early republic / Jörg Rüpke -- Celtic religion in Western and Central Europe / Dorothy Watts |
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v. II. From the Hellenistic age to late antiquity / Michele Renee Salzman, general editor ; edited by William Adler. Part I. Iran and the Near East. Religion in Iran : the Parthian and Sasanian periods (247 BCE-654 CE) / Albert de Jong -- Creating local religious identities in the Roman Near East / Ted Kaizer -- Judaism in Palestine in the Hellenistic-Roman periods / Esther Eshel and Michael E. Stone -- Post-70 Judaism in Judea and the Near East / Hayim Lapin -- Christianity in Syria / Sidney H. Griffith -- Part II. Egypt and North Africa. Traditional religion in Ptolemaic and Roman Egypt / Françoise Dunand -- Judaism in Egypt / Joseph Mélèze Modrzejewski -- Ancient Egyptian Christianity / Jacques van der Vliet -- Cult and belief in Punic and Roman Africa / Brent Shaw -- Christianity in Roman Africa / Robin M. Jensen -- Part III. Greece and Asia Minor. Religions of Greece and Asia Minor / Lynn E. Roller -- Judaism in Asia Minor / Pieter W. van der Horst -- Christianity in Asia Minor : observations on the epigraphy / Frank R. Trombley -- Part IV. Italy, Roman Gaul, and Spain. Religion in Rome and Italy from the late republic through late antiquity / Michele Renee Salzman -- Judaism in Italy and the West / Giancarlo Lacerenza -- Christianity in Italy / Dennis Trout -- Religions and cities in Roman Gaul (first to fourth centuries CE) / William van Andringa -- Christianity in Gaul / William Klingshirn -- Religions of Roman Spain / Michael Kulikowski |
| Summary |
The Cambridge History of Religions in the Ancient World provides a comprehensive examination of the history of the religions of the ancient Near East and Mediterranean world. The essays in these volumes have a broad reach, covering the ancient Near East and Mediterranean, and extending from the Bronze Age into the late Roman period. Its contributors, acknowledged experts in their fields, incorporate a wide spectrum of textual and material evidence into their analyses of their fields. The regional and historical orientations of the essays will enable readers to see how a religious tradition or movement assumed a distinctive local identity, as well as to understand how each tradition developed within its broader regional context. Supplemented with maps, illustrations and detailed indexes, these volumes will be an excellent reference tool for scholars and students |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and indexes |
| Notes |
Print version record |
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Religions.
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Civilization, Ancient.
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Civilization, Classical.
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religions (belief systems, cultures)
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Civilization, Classical
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Civilization, Ancient
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Religions
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Electronic book
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| Author |
Sweeney, Marvin A. (Marvin Alan), 1953- editor
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Salzman, Michele Renee, editor
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Adler, William, 1951- writer of introduction
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Cambridge University Press
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| ISBN |
9781139600507 |
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1139600508 |
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