Legible Religion : : Books, Gods, and Rituals in Roman Culture /

Legible Religion : : Books, Gods, and Rituals in Roman Culture / / Duncan MacRae.

Scholars have long separated a few privileged “religions of the Book” from faiths lacking sacred texts, including ancient Roman religion. Looking beyond this distinction, Duncan MacRae delves into Roman treatises on the nature of gods and rituals to grapple with a central question: what was the sign...

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MacRae, Duncan,
Place / Publishing House:Cambridge, MA : : Harvard University Press, , [2016]
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Year of Publication:2016
Language:English
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505 0 0 |t Frontmatter --   |t Contents --   |t Introduction --   |t Part I. Writing Roman Religion --   |t 1. Gods and Humans in Rome and Its Empire --   |t 2. Writing Roman Religion --   |t 3. Letters of the Republic --   |t Part II. Comparison --   |t 4. Rabbis and Romans --   |t Part III. Reading Roman Religion --   |t 5. Emperor as Reader --   |t 6. Paper Pagans --   |t Conclusion: Beyond Scripture and Literature --   |t Notes --   |t Bibliography --   |t Acknowledgments --   |t Index 
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