Format:
1 Online-Ressource (xvi, 242 pages)
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illustrations, maps
ISBN:
9789004301481
Series Statement:
Religions in the Graeco-Roman world v. 136
Content:
Preliminary material /John F. Healey -- PROBLEMS OF METHOD AND A SURVEY OF SOURCES /John F. Healey -- BACKGROUND: NABATAEAN HISTORY AND TRADE /John F. Healey -- SACRED PLACES /John F. Healey -- THE NABATAEAN GOD AND GODDESS /John F. Healey -- OTHER DEITIES WORSHIPPED BY THE NABATAEANS /John F. Healey -- IMAGES AND RITUALS /John F. Healey -- THE WORLD OF NABATAEAN RELIGION /John F. Healey -- BIBLIOGRAPHY /John F. Healey -- INDICES /John F. Healey -- RELIGIONS IN THE GRAECO-ROMAN WORLD /John F. Healey.
Content:
The history of the Nabataean Kingdom of Hellenistic-Roman times, centred on Petra, is now well known, but until the publication of this book, no monograph has been devoted to Nabataean religion, known to us principally from inscriptions in Nabataean Aramaic, iconography, archaeology and Greek literary texts. After a critical survey of the sources, the author analyses systematically the information on the individual gods worshipped by the Nabataeans, including a detailed illustrated account of temples and iconography. A further major section discusses religious themes: aniconism, henotheism, death-cult and the divinisation of kings. In a final chapter, Nabataean religion is considered in relation to Judaism, Christianity and Islam. The book will be of particular interest to historians of religion in the Graeco-Roman Near East and to Semitic epigraphists
Note:
Includes bibliographical references (p. 211-234) and indexes
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9789004107540
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe The Religion of the Nabataeans: A Conspectus Leiden, Boston : BRILL, 2001 ISBN 9789004107540
Language:
English
DOI:
10.1163/9789004301481
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