Expressions of cult in the Southern Levant in the Greco-Roman period : manifestations in text and material culture /

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Other Authors: Tal, Oren., Weiss, Zeev, 1959-

Format: Book

Language: English

Published: Turnhout, Belgium : Brepols, 2017.

Series: Contextualizing the sacred ; 6.

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Call Number: DS62.25 .E97 2017

Table of Contents:
  • Cults in Contexts in the Hellenistic and Roman Southern Levant: The Challenge of Cult Places / Nicole Belayche
  • Cult and Culture: Amusing the Crowds under the Auspices of Gods and Caesars / Zeev Weiss
  • Aurelian and the Cult of the Unconquerable Sun: The Institutionalization of Christmas, Solar Worship and Imperial Cult / Michele Renee Salzman
  • The Beginnings of Philosophy of Religion and the Fate of Polytheism in the Late Antique Levant / Robert Lamberton
  • People and Gods in the Cities of Roman Palestine: A Preliminary Inquiry into the Popularity of Civic Cults / Avner Ecker
  • Deities at the Service of Cities and PeopleL Sculpted Images from Caesarea Maritima / Rivka Gersht
  • Markers of Pagan Cults in a Jewish City: Rethinking the Hadrianeum of Tiberias / Shulamit Miller
  • Votive Offerings from the Late Roman Period in the Te’omim Cave, Western Jerusalem Hills / Boaz Zissu, Eitan Klein, Uri Davidovitch, Ro'i Porat, Boaz Langford, and Amos Frumkin
  • A Mediterranean Overview on Painted Motifs in the Southern Levant / Alix Barbet
  • (Presumable) Cultic Artefacts from Domestic Contexts at Dora / Renate Rosenthal-Heginbottom
  • Magic in the Cemeteries of Late Antique Palestine / Gideon Bohak
  • More Than Trash: Cultic Use of Pottery Lamps Found in Late Antique Dumps: Apollonia (Sozousa) as a Test Case / Oren Tal and Itamar Taxel
  • Coin Iconography and Archaeology: Methodological Considerations of Architectural Depictions on City Coins of Palestine/ Achim Lichtenberger
  • Heroes and Deities on the Coins of Gaza under Roman Rule: The Case of Io, the Argive Nymph and Minos, The Mythic King of Crete / Yoav Farhi
  • Unpublished Coin Type of a Nursing Woman / Gabriela Bijovsky
  • Temple, Cult, and Consumption in Second Temple Jerusalem / Hayim Lapin
  • Debt Fraud, Ḥērem Entrapment, and Other Crimes Involving Cultic Property in Late Hellenistic and Early Roman Judea / Benjamin D. Gordon
  • The Decline of Jewish Ritual Purity Observance in Roman Palaestina: An Archaeological Perspective on Chronology and Historical Context / Yonatan Adler.