Religious identities in the Levant from Alexander to Muhammed : continuity and change /
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Call Number: BL1060 .R453 2015
Table of Contents:
- •Part I. General: •Signes du changement: réalités et faux-semblants / •Maurice Sartre •Familiar strangers': gods and worshippers away from home in the Roman Near East / •Ted Kaizer •Gymnasia: aspects of a Greek institution in the Hellenistic and Roman Near East / •Frank Daubner •The assembly rooms of religious groups in the Hellenistic and Roman Near East: a comparative study / •Inge Neilsen •The God who is called IAO: Judaism and Hellenistic mystery religions / •Lester L. Grabbe •Conversion, apologetic argumentation, and polemic (amongst friends) in second-century Syria: Theophilus' Ad autolycum / •Jakob Engberg •Politicising the religious, or, How the Umayyads co-opted classical iconography / •Nasser Rabbat •Part II. Northern Syria: •The re-emergence of Iron Age religious iconography in Roman Syria / •Guy Bunnens •Religious continuity? the evidence from Doliche / •Michael Blömer •The Jebel Khalid Temple: continuity and change / •Graeme Clarke •A Laodicean on Mount Casius / •Julien Aliquot •Defining new gods: the daimones of Antiochus / •Margherita Facella •Images of priests in north Syria and beyond / •Michael Blömer •Perduration, continuity and discontinuity in the sanctuary of Atargatis in Hierapolis (Syria) / •Alejandro Egea •The transformation of a saintly paradigm: Simeon the Elder and the legacy of stylitism / •Volker Menze •Part III. The Desert and Mesopotamia: •Babylon in achaemenidischer und hellenistischer Zeit: eine Stellungnahme zur aktuellen Forschungsdiskussion / Wolfgang Messerschmidt •Bel of Palmyra / •Michael Gawlikowski •Cult images in cities of the Syrian-Mesopotamian desert during the first three centuries CE: continuity and change / •Lucinda Dirven •St. Sergios in Resafa: worshipped by Christians and Muslim alike / •Dorothée Sack •Part IV. Southern Syria: •Continuity and change of religious life in southern Syria during the Hellenistic and Roman periods / •Klaus Stefan Freyberger •Nouveaux dieux et dieux noveaus dans le Hauran (Syrie du sud) à l'époque romaine / •Annie Sartre-Fauriat •New archaeological research at the sanctuary of Sî' in southern Syria: the Graeco-Roman divinities invite themselves to Baalshamin / •Jacqueline Dentzer-Feydy •Part V. Palestine: •The Hellenistic-Roman sancturary at et-Tell (Bethsaida) and the question of tradition in the layout of the holy place / •Ilona Skupinska-Løvset •More on the intentionally broken discus lamps from Roman Palestine: mutilation and its symbolic meaning / •Oren Tal and Marcio Teixeira Bastos •Part VI. Arabia: •From Nabataea to the province of Arabia: changing religious identities and the cults of Dushara / •Peter Alpass •Romanisation through coins: the case of provincia Arabia / •Cristina M. Acqua •The last phases of the Cathedral Church of Jerash / •Beat Brenk