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An edition of Religions of the ancient world (2004)

Religions of the ancient world

a guide

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"At once sweeping in scope and format, the Guide eschews the usual encyclopedic approach, instead presenting, side by side, materials from ten cultures and traditions. Thus specific beliefs, cults, gods, and ritual practices that arose and developed in Mediterranean religions - of Egypt, Anatolia and the Near East, Mesopotamia, Iran, Greece, and the Roman world, from the third millennium BCE to the fourth century CE - are interpreted in comparison with one another, and with reference to aspects that crisscross cultural boundaries, such as Cosmology, Myth, Law and Ethics, and Magic. Written by leading scholars of ancient religion, the essays in this guide sketch the various religious histories, raise central theoretical issues, and examine individual topics such as Sacred Times and Spaces; Prayers, Hymns, Incantations, and Curses; Sin, Pollution, and Purity; Death, the Afterlife, and Other Last Things; Divination and Prophecy; Deities and Demons; and Sacred Texts and Canonicity."--BOOK JACKET.

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English
Pages
697

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Religions of the ancient world: a guide
2004, Belknap Press, Belknap Press of Harvard University Press
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Edition Notes

Includes bibliographical references and index

Published in
Cambridge, Mass
Series
Harvard University Press reference library

Classifications

Library of Congress
BL687 .R47 2004, BL687.R47 2004

The Physical Object

Pagination
xvii, 697 p., [16] p. of plates :
Number of pages
697

ID Numbers

Open Library
OL17137837M
Internet Archive
religionsofancie0000unse_d0s1
ISBN 10
0674015177
LCCN
2004054570
OCLC/WorldCat
55955653
Library Thing
328816
Goodreads
981187

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