Household and family religion in antiquity
Subtitle: contextual and comparative perspectives
By: edited by John Bodel and Saul M. Olyan.
Contributors: Bodel, John P., 1957-; Olyan, Saul M.
Series: Ancient world--comparative histories
Publisher: Blackwell Pub. Ltd; Wiley-Blackwell; Wiley-Interscience
Published: 2008
Place of publication: Malden, MA
Language: eng
Number of pages: 346
ISBN-13: 9781405175791
Subjects: Family -- Religious life; Religions
Description: "Household and Family Religion in Antiquity is the first book to explore the religious dimensions of the family and the household in ancient Mediterranean and West Asian antiquity." "With an approach that is both contextual and comparative, essays examine domestic and familial religious practices in Egypt, Greece, Rome, Israel, Mesopotamia, Ugarit, Emar, and Philistia. Taking in a range of religious expression, from supplication of a household's patron deities to contact with dead ancestors, Household and Family Religion in Antiquity advances our understanding of a distinct and widespread ancient religions phenomenon."--Jacket.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction / John Bodel and Saul M. Olyan; title: Theorizing the religion of ancient households and families / Stanley K. Stowers; title: Family religion in second millennium West Asia (Mesopotamia, Emar, Nuzi) / Karel van der Toorn; title: The integration of household and community religion in ancient Syria / Daniel E. Fleming; title: Family, household, and local religion at late bronze age ugarit / Theodore J. Lewis; title: Family religion in ancient Irael and its surroundings / Rainer Albertz; title: Family religion in Israel and the wider Levant of the first millennium BCE / Saul M. Olyan; title: Household religion, family religion, and women's religion in ancient Israel / Susan Ackerman; title: Ashdod and the material remains of domestic cults in the Philistine Coastal Plain / R'diger Schmitt; title: Household religion in ancient Egypt / Robert K. Ritner; title: Household and domestic religion in ancient Egypt / Barbara S. Lesko; title: Household religion in ancient Greece / Christopher A. Faraone; title: Family matters : domestic religion in classical Greece / Deborah Boedeker; title: Cicero's Minerva, Penates, and the mother of the Lares : an outline of; title: Roman domestic religion / John Bodel; title: Comparative perspectives / John Bodel and Saul M. Olyan; title: Bibliography; title: Index.