The variety of local religious life in the Near East in the Hellenistic and Roman periods

Weitere Verfasser: Kaizer, Ted.
Ort/Verlag/Jahr: Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2008.
Umfang/Format: xx, 329 p., [61] p. of plates : ill., maps, plans ; 25 cm.
Schriftenreihe: Religions in the Graeco-Roman world ; v. 164
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iDAI.gazetteer: Vorderasien
Inhalte/Bestandteile: 10 Datensätze
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Inhaltsangabe:
  • Introduction / Milette Gaifman
  • The aniconic image of the Roman Near East / Julien Aliquot Sanctuaries and villages on Mt. Hermon during the Roman period / Arthur Segal
  • Religious architecture in the Roman Near East : temples of the basalt lands (trachon and hauran) / Achim Lichtenberger
  • Artemis and Zeus Olympios in Roman Gerasa and seleucid religious policy/ Jonathan Kirkpatrick
  • How to be a bad Samaritan : the local cult of Mt. Gerizim / Ted Kaizer
  • Man and God at Palmyra : sacrifice, lectisternia and banquets / Peter Haider
  • Tradition and change in the beliefs at Assur, Nineveh, and Nisibis between 300 BC and AD 300 / Lucinda Dirven
  • Aspects of hatrene religion : a note on the statues of kings and nobles from Hatra / Jurgen Tubach
  • Ephraem Syrus and the solar cult.