The Variety of Local Religious Life in the Near East
In the Hellenistic and Roman Periods
Biographical note
Ted Kaizer, MA (Leiden, 1995), DPhil (Oxford, 2000), is Lecturer in Roman Culture and History at the University of Durham. He is the author of The Religious Life of Palmyra (Franz Steiner Verlag, 2002).
Contributors include: Julien Aliquot, Lucinda Dirven, Milette Gaifman, Peter Haider, Ted Kaizer, Jonathan Kirkpatrick, Achim Lichtenberger, Arthur Segal, and Jürgen Tubach
Contributors include: Julien Aliquot, Lucinda Dirven, Milette Gaifman, Peter Haider, Ted Kaizer, Jonathan Kirkpatrick, Achim Lichtenberger, Arthur Segal, and Jürgen Tubach
Readership
All those interested in the Hellenistic and Roman Near East, including archaeologists, art-historians, epigraphers, historians, numismatists, Semitists, and theologians.
Table of contents
Acknowledgements
List of contributors
Abbreviations
List of plates
Ted Kaizer
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
Jürgen Tubach
Ephraem Syrus and the solar cult
Bibliography
Indices
- index locorum
- general index
Plate section
List of contributors
Abbreviations
List of plates
Ted Kaizer
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
Jürgen Tubach
Ephraem Syrus and the solar cult
Bibliography
Indices
- index locorum
- general index
Plate section
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