RT Book
T1 Ancient Religions
A2 Assmann, Jan 1938-2024
A2 Attridge, Harold W
A2 Beard, Mary
A2 Beaulieu, Paul-Alain
A2 Bremmer, Jan
A2 Cazanove, Olivier de
A2 Collins, John J
A2 Frankfurter, David
A2 Graf, Fritz
A2 Johnston, Sarah Iles 1957-
A2 Lincoln, Bruce
A2 Malandra, William
A2 Marinatos, Nanno
A2 Mikalson, Jon
A2 North, John
A2 Otto, Eckart
A2 Scheid, John
A2 Stausberg, Michael
A2 Wright, David P
LA English
PP Cambridge, MA
PB Harvard University Press
YR 2021
UL https://ixtheo.de/Record/1756836116
AB 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
AB 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 traveled with them. This collection of essays, drawn from the groundbreaking reference work Religion in the Ancient World, offers an expansive, comparative perspective on this complex spiritual world
OP 284
CN BL96
SN 978-0-674-03918-6
K1 Civilization, Ancient
K1 Religions
K1 HISTORY / Ancient / General
K1 RELIGION / Comparative Religion
K1 Religion / History
DO 10.4159/9780674039186