Edition:
First paperback edition
ISBN:
9781107019997
Content:
v. I. From the Bronze Age to the Hellenistic age / edited by Michele Renee Salzman, Marvin A. Sweeney. Part I. Mesopotamia and the Near East. Sumerian religion / Graham Cunningham -- Assyrian and Babylonian religions / Tammi J. Schneider -- Hittite religion / Gary Beckman -- Zoroastrianism / Prods Oktor Skjærvø -- Syro-Canaanite religions / David P. Wright -- Ancient Israelite and Judean religions / Marvin A. Sweeney -- Part II. Egypt and North Arica. Egyptian religion / Denise M. Doxey -- Phoenician and Punic religion / Philip C. Schmitz -- Part III. Greece and the eastern Mediterranean. Minoan religion / Nanno Marinatos -- Mycenaean religion / Ian Rutherford -- Religion in the Greek world, c.750-400 BCE / Emily Kearns -- Part IV. The western Mediterranean and Europe. Etruscan religion / Nancy T. de Grummond -- Archaic Roman religion through the early republic / Jörg Rüpke -- Celtic religion in Western and Central Europe / Dorothy Watts
Content:
v. II. From the Hellenistic Age to Late Antiquity / edited by William Adler. Introduction / William Adler. Part I. Iran and the Near East. Religion in Iran: the Parthian and Sassanian periods (247 BCE-654 CE) / Albert de Jong -- Creating local religious identities in the Roman Near East / Ted Kaizer -- Judaism in Palestine in the Hellenistic-Roman periods / Esther Eshel and Michael E. Stone -- Post-70 Judaism in Judaea and the Near East / Hayim Lapin -- Christianity in Syria / Sidney H. Griffith. Part II. Egypt and North Africa. Traditional religion in Ptolemaic and Roman Egypt / Françoise Dunand -- Judaism in Egypt / Joseph Mélèze Modrzejewski -- Ancient Egyptian Christianity / Jacques van der Vliet -- Cult and belief in Punic and Roman Africa / Brent Shaw -- Christianity in Roman Africa / Robin M. Jensen. Part III. Greece and Asia Minor. Religions of Greece and Asia Minor / Lynn E. Roller -- Judaism in Asia Minor / Pieter W. van der Horst -- Christianity in Asia Minor: observations on the epigraphy / Frank R. Trombley. Part IV. Italy, Roman Gaul, and Spain. Roman religion: cult and belief in Rome and Italy / Michele Renee Salzman -- Judaism in Italy and the West / Giancarlo Lacerenza -- Christianity in Italy / Dennis Trout -- Religions and cities in Roman Gaul (first to fourth centuries CE) / William van Andringa -- Christianity in Gaul / William Klingshirn -- Religions of Roman Spain / Michael Kulikowski
Content:
"The Cambridge History of Religion in the Ancient World provides a comprehensive examination of the history of the religions of the ancient Near East and Mediterranean world. The essays in these volumes have a broad reach, covering the ancient Near East and Mediterranean, and extending from the Bronze Age into the late Roman period. Its contributors, acknowledged experts in their fields, incorporate a wide spectrum of textual and material evidence into their analyses of their fields. The regional and historical orientations of the essays will enable readers to see how a religious tradition or movement assumed a distinctive local identity, as well as to understand how each tradition developed within its broader regional context. Supplemented with maps, illustrations, and detailed indexes, these volumes will be an excellent reference tool for scholars and students."--Publisher's description
Note:
Includes bibliographical references and indexes
Language:
English
Subjects:
History
,
Theology
Author information:
Sweeney, Marvin A. 1953-
