The Cambridge History of Religions in the Ancient World

by Salzman, Michele Renee; Sweeney, Marvin A.

• ISBN13: 9781107019997
• ISBN10: 1107019990
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2013-03-18
• Publisher: Cambridge Univ Pr

Summary

The Cambridge History of Religion 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.

Table of Contents

From the Bronze Age to the Hellenistic Era: Introduction Marvin A. Sweeney

Mesopotamia and the Near East

Sumerian religion Graham Cunningham

Assyrian and Babylonian religions

Hittite religion

Zoroastrianism

Syro-Canaanite religions: a construct of metaphors

Ancient Israelite and Judean religions

Egypt and North Africa

Egyptian religion

Phoenician and Punic religion

Greece and the Eastern Mediterranean

Minoan religion

Mycenaean religion Ian Rutherford

Religion in the Greek world, c.750-400 BCE

The Western Mediterranean and Europe

Etruscan religion

Archaic Roman religion through the Early Republic

Celtic religion in western and central Europe

Suggestions for further reading

From the Hellenistic Era to Late Antiquity

Introduction

Iran and the Near East

Religion in Iran: the Parthian and Sassanian periods (247 BCE-654 CE)

Creating local religious identities in the Roman Near East

Judaism in Palestine in the Hellenistic-Roman periods

Post-70 Judaism in Judaea and the Near East

Christianity in Syria Sidney

Egypt and North Africa

Traditional religion in Ptolemaic and Roman Egypt

Judaism in Egypt

Ancient Egyptian Christianity

Cult and belief in Punic and Roman Africa

Christianity in Roman Africa

Greece and Asia Minor

Religions of Greece and Asia Minor

Judaism in Asia Minor

Christianity in Asia Minor: observations on the epigraphy

Italy, Roman Gaul, and Spain

Roman religion: cult and belief in Rome and Italy

Judaism in Italy and the West

Christianity in Italy

Religions and cities in Roman Gaul (first to fourth centuries CE)

Christianity in Gaul

Religions of Roman Spain

Suggestions for further reading

Maps

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