The Variety of Local Religious Life in the Near East In the Hellenistic and Roman Periods

by Kaizer, Ted

• ISBN13: 9789004167353
• ISBN10: 9004167358
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2008-06-15
• Publisher: Brill Academic Pub

Summary

This interdisciplinary collection of articles brings out the variety of local and regional patterns of worship in the Near East, and in this manner contributes to our quest for understanding the polytheistic cults of the region as a whole.

Table of Contents

List of plates
Introduction
The aniconic image of the Roman Near East	p. 37
Sanctuaries and villages on Mt Hermon during the Roman period	p. 73
Religious architecture in the Roman Near East: temples of the basalt lands (Trachon and Hauran)	p. 97
Artemis and Zeus Olympios in Roman Gerasa and Seleucid religious policy	p. 133
How to be a bad Samaritan: the local cult of Mt Gerizim	p. 155
Man and god at Palmyra: sacrifice, lectisternia and banquets	p. 179
Tradition and change in the beliefs at Assur, Nineveh and Nisibis between 300 BC and AD 300	p. 193
Aspects of Hatrene religion: a note on the statues of kings and nobles from Batra	p. 209
Ephraem Syrus and the solar cult	p. 247
Bibliography	p. 263
Index locorum	p. 311
Index of geographical and place names	p. 319
Index of divine and mythological names	p. 323
Index of personal names	p. 326
General index	p. 328
Plates	p. 331
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