The variety of local religious life in the Near East in the Hellenistic and Roman periods [electronic resource] / edited by Ted Kaizer. - Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2008. - xx, 329 p., [61] p. of plates : ill., maps. - Religions in the Graeco-Roman world, v. 164 0927-7633 ; . - Religions in the Graeco-Roman world ; v. 164. .

Includes bibliographical references (p. [263]-310) and indexes.

Introduction / Ted Kaizer -- The aniconic image of the Roman Near East / Milette Gaifman -- Sanctuaries and villages on Mt. Hermon during the Roman period / Julien Aliquot -- Religious architecture in the Roman Near East : temples of the basalt lands (Trachon and Hauran) / Arthur Segal -- Artemis and Zeus Olympios in Roman Gerasa and seleucid religious policy / Achim Lichtenberger -- How to be a bad Samaritan : the local cult of Mt. Gerizim / Jonathan Kirkpatrick -- Man and god at Palmyra : sacrifice, lectisternia and banquets / Ted Kaizer -- Tradition and change in the beliefs at Assur, Nineveh and Nisibis between 300 BC and AD 300 / Peter W. Haider -- Aspects of Hatrene religion : a note on the statues of kings and nobles from Hatra / Lucinda Dirven -- Ephraem Syrus and the solar cult / Jürgen Tubach.


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