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Summary
Summary
The Cambridge History of Religions 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 subjects. 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.
Table of Contents
| Volume 1 From the Bronze Age to the Hellenistic Era: Introduction Marvin A. Sweeney |
| Part I Mesopotamia and the Near East |
| 1 Sumerian religion Graham Cunningham |
| 2 Assyrian and Babylonian religionsTammi J. Schneider |
| 3 Hittite religionGary Beckman |
| 4 ZoroastrianismP. Oktor Skaervo |
| 5 Syro-Canaanite religions: a construct of metaphorsDavid Wright |
| 6 Ancient Israelite and Judean religionsMarvin A. Sweeney |
| Part II Egypt and North Africa |
| 7 Egyptian religionDenise M. Doxey |
| 8 Phoenician and Punic religionPhilip C. Schmitz |
| Part III Greece and the Eastern Mediterranean |
| 9 Minoan religionNanno Marinatos |
| 10 Mycenaean religion Ian Rutherford |
| 11 Religion in the Greek world, c.750-400 BCEEmily Kearns |
| Part IV The Western Mediterranean and Europe |
| 12 Etruscan religionNancy T. de Grummond |
| 13 Archaic Roman religion through the Early RepublicJörg Rüpke |
| 14 Celtic religion in western and central EuropeDorothy Watts |
| Suggestions for further reading |
| Volume 2 From the Hellenistic Era to Late Antiquity |
| IntroductionWilliam Adler |
| Part I Iran and the Near East |
| 1 Religion in Iran: the Parthian and Sassanian periods (247 BCE-654 CE)Albert de Jong |
| 2 Creating local religious identities in the Roman Near EastTed Kaizer |
| 3 Judaism in Palestine in the Hellenistic-Roman periodsEsther Eshel and Michael E. Stone |
| 4 Post-70 Judaism in Judaea and the Near EastHayim Lapin |
| 5 Christianity in Syria SidneyH. Griffith |
| Part II Egypt and North Africa |
| 6 Traditional religion in Ptolemaic and Roman EgyptFrançoise Dunand |
| 7 Judaism in EgyptJoseph Mélèze Modrzejewski |
| 8 Ancient Egyptian ChristianityJacques van der Vliet |
| 9 Cult and belief in Punic and Roman AfricaBrent Shaw |
| 10 Christianity in Roman AfricaRobin M. Jensen |
| Part III Greece and Asia Minor |
| 11 Religions of Greece and Asia MinorLynn E. Roller |
| 12 Judaism in Asia MinorPieter W. van der Horst |
| 13 Christianity in Asia Minor: observations on the epigraphyFrank R. Trombley |
| Part IV Italy, Roman Gaul, and Spain |
| 14 Roman religion: cult and belief in Rome and ItalyMichele Salzman |
| 15 Judaism in Italy and the WestGiancarlo Lacarenza |
| 16 Christianity in ItalyDennis Trout |
| 17 Religions and cities in Roman Gaul (first to fourth centuries CE)William van Andringa |
| 18 Christianity in GaulWilliam Klingshirn |
| 19 Religions of Roman SpainMichael Kulikowski |
| Suggestions for further reading |
| Maps |
