Religion in Roman Egypt : : Assimilation and Resistance / / David Frankfurter.
This exploration of cultural resilience examines the complex fate of classical Egyptian religion during the centuries from the period when Christianity first made its appearance in Egypt to when it became the region's dominant religion (roughly 100 to 600 C.E. Taking into account the full range...
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Superior document: | Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Princeton University Press eBook-Package Archive 1927-1999 |
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Place / Publishing House: | Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [2020] ©1998 |
Year of Publication: | 2020 |
Language: | English |
Series: | Mythos: The Princeton/Bollingen Series in World Mythology : 57 ;
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Physical Description: | 1 online resource (336 p.) :; 1 map, 1 line illus., 23 halftones |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- CONTENTS
- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
- ABBREVIATIONS
- OVERTURE. The Armor of Horus
- ONE. Scope and Method
- TWO. Religion and Temples
- THREE. The Local Scope of Religious Belief
- FOUR. Mutations of the Egyptian Oracle
- FIVE. Priest to Magician: Evolving Modes of Religious Authority
- SIX. The Scriptorium as Crucible of Religious Change
- SEVEN. Idiom, Ideology, and Iconoclasm: A Prolegomenon to the Conversion of Egypt
- Select Bibliography
- Index
- About the Author