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9780674025486

Ancient Religions

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  • ISBN13:

    9780674025486

  • ISBN10:

    0674025482

  • Format: Paperback
  • Copyright: 2007-09-30
  • Publisher: Belknap Pr

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Summary

Religious beliefs and practices, which permeated all aspects of life in antiquity, traveled well-worn routes throughout the Mediterranean: itinerant charismatic practitioners journeying from place to place peddled their skills as healers, purifiers, cursers, and initiators; and vessels decorated with illustrations of myths traveled with them. New gods encountered in foreign lands by merchants and conquerors were sometimes taken home to be adapted and adopted. This collection of essays by a distinguished international group of scholars, drawn from the groundbreaking reference work Religion in the Ancient World, offers an expansive, comparative perspective on this complex spiritual world.

Table of Contents

Introduction Sarah Iles Johnston
Note on Translation and Transliteration
Abbreviations
Maps
Encountering ancient religions
What Is Ancient Mediterranean Religion? Fritz Graf
Monotheism and Polytheism Jan Assmann
Ritual Jan Bremmer
Myth Fritz Graf
Cosmology: Time and History
Pollution, Sin, Atonement, Salvation
Law and Ethics Eckart Otto
Mysteries Sarah Iles Johnston
Religions in Contact John Scheid
Writing and Religion Mary Beard
Magic Sarah Iles Johnston
Histories
Egypt Jan Assmann and David Frankfurter
Mesopotamia Paul-Alain Beaulieu
Syria and Canaan
Israel
Anatolia: Hittites
Iran William Malandra and Michael Stausberg
Greece Jon Mikalson
Etruria Olivier de Cazanove
Rome John North
Early Christianity Harold Attridge
Key topics
Sacred Times and Spaces
Introduction
Egypt
Mesopotamia
Syria-Canaan
Israel
Anatolia
Iran
Greece
Etruria
Rome
Christianity
Dictionary of Religious Festivals
Religious Personnel
Introduction
Egypt
Mesopotamia
Syria-Canaan
Israel
Anatolia
Iran
Greece
Etruria
Rome
Christianity
Religious Organizations and Bodies
Introduction
Egypt
Mesopotamia Syria-Canaan
Israel
Anatolia
Iran
Greece
Rome
Christianity
Sacrifice, Offerings, and Votives
Introduction
Egypt
Mesopotamia
Syria-Canaan
Israel
Anatolia
Iran
Greece
Etruria
Rome
Christianity
Prayers, Hymns, Incantations, and Curses
Introduction
Egypt
Mesopotamia
Syria-Canaan
Israel
Anatolia
Iran
Greece
Etruria
Rome
Christianity
Divination and Prophecy Introduction
Egypt
Mesopotamia
Syria-Canaan
Israel
Anatolia
Iran
Greece
Etruria
Rome
Christianity
Deities and Demons
Introduction
Egypt
Mesopotamia
Syria-Canaan
Israel
Anatolia
Iran
Greece and Rome
Etruria
Christianity
Dictionary of Deities and Demons
Religious Practices of the Individual and Family
Introduction
Mesopotamia
Syria-Canaan
Israel
Anatolia
Iran
Greece
Etruria
Rome
Christianity
Rites of Passage
Introduction
Egypt
Mesopotamia
Syria-Canaan
Israel
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