The variety of local religious life in the Near East in the Hellenistic and Roman periods
By: edited by Ted Kaizer.
Contributors: Kaizer, Ted.
Series: Religions in the Graeco-Roman world -- v. 164
Publisher: Brill
Published: 2008
Place of publication: Leiden; Boston
Language: eng
Number of pages: 329
ISBN-13: 9789004167353
Subjects: Middle East -- Religious life and customs
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction / Milette Gaifman; title: The aniconic image of the Roman Near East / Julien Aliquot Sanctuaries and villages on Mt. Hermon during the Roman period / Arthur Segal; title: Religious architecture in the Roman Near East : temples of the basalt lands (trachon and hauran) / Achim Lichtenberger; title: Artemis and Zeus Olympios in Roman Gerasa and seleucid religious policy/ Jonathan Kirkpatrick; title: How to be a bad Samaritan : the local cult of Mt. Gerizim / Ted Kaizer; title: Man and God at Palmyra : sacrifice, lectisternia and banquets / Peter Haider; title: Tradition and change in the beliefs at Assur, Nineveh, and Nisibis between 300 BC and AD 300 / Lucinda Dirven; title: Aspects of hatrene religion : a note on the statues of kings and nobles from Hatra / Jurgen Tubach; title: Ephraem Syrus and the solar cult.