Expressions of cult in the southern Levant in the Greco-Roman period: manifestations in text and material culture
The arrival of Alexander the Great in the southern Levant ushered in many changes, and the subsequent period saw many more upheavals, including the Roman conquest, the Jewish revolts, and the gradual Christianization of the Holy Land. Throughout this period, many local ?pagan?, Jewish, and Christian...
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| Format: | Print Book |
| Language: | English |
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| Interlibrary Loan: | Interlibrary Loan for the Fachinformationsdienste (Specialized Information Services in Germany) |
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Turnhout
Brepols
[2017]
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| In: |
Contextualizing the sacred (volume 6)
Year: 2017 |
| Series/Journal: | Contextualizing the sacred
volume 6 |
| Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains: | B
Levant (Süd)
/ Religious change
/ Materiality
/ Findings
/ History 336 BC-500
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| Further subjects: | B
Excavations (archaeology) (Middle East)
B Collection of essays B Middle East Religion B Middle East Antiquities B Cults (Middle East) History B Temples (Middle East) History B Middle East History To 622 |
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| Summary: | The arrival of Alexander the Great in the southern Levant ushered in many changes, and the subsequent period saw many more upheavals, including the Roman conquest, the Jewish revolts, and the gradual Christianization of the Holy Land. Throughout this period, many local ?pagan?, Jewish, and Christian cults and cultic places dotted the local landscape of the southern Levant, which today covers the area of Israel, Jordan, and parts of Lebanon and southern Syria. These cults underwent processes of profound change, but also preserved much of their older identities while still interacting with each other. 0This volume seeks to present these processes both synchronically and diachronically, along three different axes - cultic places, personnel, and objects. The common denominator shared by these three axes is the people whose beliefs and practices shaped religious behaviour in the Greco-Roman southern Levant. The 18 articles in this volume investigate whether cultic practices formed a coherent cultural system. They consider the co-existence and competition of the different religious systems, analyzing them in terms of continuity, discontinuity, and change over an extended period of time, roughly from the arrival of Alexander the Great to the Imperial integration of Christianity (ca. late fourth century BCE - early fifth century CE). The approaches presented in the volume are varied and interdisciplinary, combining archaeological, philological, historical, and art-historical analyses of multiple bodies of evidence |
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| Item Description: | Literaturangaben und Index |
| Physical Description: | xxiii, 288 Seiten, Illustrationen, Pläne, Diagramme, Karten |
| ISBN: | 2-503-55335-4 978-2-503-55335-1 |
