Ancient Religions / / Sarah Iles JOHNSTON.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter HUP eBook Package Backlist 2000-2013
• MitwirkendeR: Assmann, Jan,; Attridge, Harold W.,; Beard, Mary,; Beaulieu, Paul-Alain,; Bremmer, Jan,; Cazanove, Olivier de,; Collins, John J.,; Frankfurter, David,; Graf, Fritz,; Johnston, Sarah Iles,; Lincoln, Bruce,; Malandra, William,; Marinatos, Nanno,; Mikalson, Jon,; North, John,; Otto, Eckart,; Scheid, John,; Stausberg, Michael,; Wright, David P.,
• HerausgeberIn: JOHNSTON, Sarah Iles,
• Place / Publishing House: Cambridge, MA : : Harvard University Press, , [2021]; ©2007
• Year of Publication: 2021
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (284 p.)

Religious beliefs and practices, which permeated all aspects of life in antiquity, traveled well-worn routes throughout the Mediterranean: itinerant charismatic practitioners peddled their skills as healers, purifiers, cursers, and initiators; and vessels decorated with illustrations of myths travel...

Table of Contents

• Frontmatter
• Contents
• Introduction
• Note on Translation and Transliteration
• Abbreviations
• Maps
• Encountering ancient religions
• What Is Ancient Mediterranean Religion?
• Monotheism and Polytheism
• Ritual
• Myth
• Cosmology: Time and History
• Pollution, Sin, Atonement, Salvation
• Law and Ethics
• Mysteries
• Religions in Contact
• Writing and Religion
• Magic
• Histories
• Egypt
• Mesopotamia
• Syria and Canaan
• Israel
• Anatolia: Hittites
• Iran
• Minoan and Mycenaean Civilizations
• Greece
• Etruria
• Rome
• Early Christianity
• Epilogue
• Contributors
• Index