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Titolo |
Household and family religion in antiquity / / edited by John Bodel and Saul M. Olyan |
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Malden, Massachusetts ; ; Oxford, England : , : Blackwell Pub. Ltd., , [2008] |
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©2008 |
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1-78539-367-7 |
1-4443-0297-3 |
1-4443-0298-1 |
1-118-29352-5 |
1-282-11566-9 |
9786612115660 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (344 p.) |
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Collana |
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Ancient world--comparative histories |
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Disciplina |
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Soggetti |
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Families - Religious life |
Religions |
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Formato |
Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references (pages [283]-313) and index. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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Introduction / John Bodel & Saul M. Olyan -- Theorizing the religion of ancient households and families / Stanley K. Stowers -- Family religion in second millennium West Asia (Mesopotamia, Emar, Nuzi) / Karel van der Toorn -- The integration of household and community religion in ancient Syria / Daniel E. Fleming -- Family, household, and local religion at late bronze age ugarit / Theodore J. Lewis -- Family religion in ancient Irael and its surroundings / Rainer Albertz -- Family religion in Israel and the wider Levant of the first millennium BCE / Saul M. Olyan -- Household religion, family religion, and women's religion in ancient Israel / Susan Ackerman -- Ashdod and the material remains of domestic cults in the Philistine Coastal Plain / R'diger Schmitt -- Household religion in ancient Egypt / Robert K. Ritner -- Household and domestic religion in ancient Egypt / Barbara S. Lesko -- Household religion in ancient Greece / Christopher A. Faraone -- Family matters : domestic religion in classical Greece / Deborah Boedeker -- Cicero's |
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Minerva, Penates, and the mother of the Lares : an outline of -- Roman domestic religion / John Bodel -- Comparative perspectives / John Bodel & Saul M. Olyan. |
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Sommario/riassunto |
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The first book to explore the religious dimensions of the family and the household in ancient Mediterranean and West Asian antiquity.Advances our understanding of household and familial religion, as opposed to state-sponsored or civic temple cultsReconstructs domestic and family religious practices in Egypt, Greece, Rome, Israel, Mesopotamia, Ugarit, Emar, and PhilistiaExplores many household rituals, such as providing for ancestral spirits, and petitioning of a household's patron deities or of spirits associated with the house itselfExamines lifecycle rituals - from pregna |
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