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Title The variety of local religious life in the Near East in the Hellenistic and Roman periods / edited by Ted Kaizer
Published Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2008

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Description 1 online resource (xx, 329 pages, 61 unnumbered pages of plates) : illustrations, maps
Series Religions in the Graeco-Roman world, 0927-7633 ; v. 164
Religions in the Graeco-Roman world ; v. 164.
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 / Jürgen Tubach
Summary An interdisciplinary collection of articles that presents the variety of local and regional patterns of worship in the Near East, and contributes to our quest for understanding the polytheistic cults of the region as a whole
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 263-310) and indexes
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Subject RELIGION -- History.
TRAVEL -- Special Interest -- Religious.
Römerzeit
Religiöses Leben
Hellenismus
SUBJECT Middle East -- Religious life and customs
Subject Middle East
Naher Osten
Mellanöstern -- religiöst liv -- historia -- forntiden.
Form Electronic book
Author Kaizer, Ted.
ISBN 9789047433538
904743353X
1282399047
9781282399044
9786612399046
661239904X