The Routledge Encyclopedia of Ancient Mediterranean Religions is the first comprehensive single-volume reference work offering authoritative coverage of ancient religions in the Mediterranean world. Chronologically, the volume’s scope extends from pre-historical antiquity in the third millennium B.C.E. through the rise of Islam in the seventh century C.E. An interdisciplinary approach draws out the common issues and elements between and among religious traditions in the Mediterranean basin. Key features of the volume include: Detailed maps of the Mediterranean World, ancient Egypt, the Roman Empire, and the Hellenistic World A comprehensive timeline of major events, innovations, and individuals, divided by region to provide both a diachronic and pan-Mediterranean, synchronic view A broad geographical range including western Asia, northern Africa, and southern Europe This encyclopedia will serve as a key point of reference for all students and scholars interested in ancient Mediterranean culture and society.
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The book stresses the most serious concerns of the Mediterranean today - threats to biodiversity, risks, and hazards - mostly the increasing wildfires and finally depletion of traditional Mediterranean practices and landscapes, as ...
Studien zur Musikarchäologie III. Papers from the 2nd Symposium of the International Study Group on Music ... Stefan Hagel, Ancient Greek Music: A New Technical History. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2010. xix 484 pp.
... Routledge Encyclopedia of Ancient Mediterranean Religions, edited by E. Orlin. New York: Routledge, 2015. Review of J. Connolly, The Life of Roman Republicanism (Princeton and Oxford: Princeton University Press, 2015). Choice, May 2015 ...
We might call them 'accidental pilgrims'. Yet that momentary spark of awareness is a rich opportunity for exploration. Each of these tourist-cum-pilgrims has a necessary further journey to make, both literal and spiritual.
Inscribing Devotion and Death: Archaeological Evidence for Jewish Populations of North Africa. Leiden: Brill. Stern, K. B. 2010. “Mapping Devotion in Roman Dura Europos: A Reconsideration of the Synagogue Ceiling.
Drawing on an impressive range of archaeological and textual sources and a nuanced understanding of biases, this book offers a valuable reappraisal of the enigmatic Phoenicians.
The Byzantine- Islamic Transition in Palestine: An Archaeological Approach. New York: Oxford University Press. Bagnall, Roger S., and Klaas A. Worp. 2004. Chronological Systems in Byzantine Egypt: Second Edition. Leiden: Brill.
This book argues that ever since Iran’s Islamic Revolution in 1979, which established a Shia Islamic government in Iran, that country’s religious and political leaders, have used Shia Islam as a crucial way of expanding Iran’s ...
This volume, therefore, offers a fascinating inside view into the studies and onto the desks of several prolific biblical experts who share their reflections and concepts about their commentaries on Leviticus with an interested audience.