The variety of local religious life in the Near East in the Hellenistic and Roman periods / edited by Ted Kaizer.

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Superior document:Religions in the Graeco-Roman world, v. 164
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Year of Publication:2008
Language:English
Series:Religions in the Graeco-Roman world ; v. 164.
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Physical Description:xx, 329 p., [61] p. of plates :; ill., maps.
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Table of Contents:
  • Introduction / Ted Kaizer
  • The aniconic image of the Roman Near East / Milette Gaifman
  • Sanctuaries and villages on Mt. Hermon during the Roman period / Julien Aliquot
  • Religious architecture in the Roman Near East : temples of the basalt lands (Trachon and Hauran) / Arthur Segal
  • Artemis and Zeus Olympios in Roman Gerasa and seleucid religious policy / Achim Lichtenberger
  • How to be a bad Samaritan : the local cult of Mt. Gerizim / Jonathan Kirkpatrick
  • Man and god at Palmyra : sacrifice, lectisternia and banquets / Ted Kaizer
  • Tradition and change in the beliefs at Assur, Nineveh and Nisibis between 300 BC and AD 300 / Peter W. Haider
  • Aspects of Hatrene religion : a note on the statues of kings and nobles from Hatra / Lucinda Dirven
  • Ephraem Syrus and the solar cult / Jurgen Tubach.