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Ancient religions / Sarah Iles Johnston, general editor.
- Format:
- Book
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Religions.
- Civilization, Ancient.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (xi, 266 p. ) ill., maps
- Place of Publication:
- Cambridge, Mass. : Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2007.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- This collection of essays by a distinguished international group of schoalrs, drawn from the groundbreaking reference work 'Religion in the Ancient World', offers an expansive, comparative perspective on this complex spiritual world.
- Contents:
- Encountering ancient religions. What is ancient Mediterranean religion? / Fritz Graf
- Monotheism and polytheism / Jan Assmann
- Ritual / Jan Bremmer
- Myth / Fritz Graf
- Cosmology: time and history / John J. Collins
- Pollution, sin, atonement, salvation / Harold W. Attridge
- Law and ethics / Eckart Otto
- Mysteries / Sarah Iles Johnston
- Religions in contact / John Scheid
- Writing and religion / Mary Beard
- Magic / Sarah Iles Johnston. Histories. Egypt / Jan Assmann and David Frankfurter
- Mesopotamia / Paul-Alain Beaulieu
- Syria and Canaan / David P. Wright
- Israel / John J. Collins
- Anatolia: Hittites / David P. Wright
- Iran / William Malandra and Michael Stausberg
- Minoan and Mycenaean civilizations / Nanno Marinatos
- Greece / Jon Mikalson
- Etruria / Olivier de Cazanove
- Rome / John North
- Early Christianity / Harold W. Attridge
- Epilogue / Bruce Lincoln.
- Notes:
- Formerly CIP.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780674264779
- 0674264770
- 9780674039186
- 0674039181
- OCLC:
- 923109140
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