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Household and Family Religion in Antiquity
John Bodel, Saul M. OlyanHow much do you like this book?
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The first book to explore the religious dimensions of the family and the household in ancient Mediterranean and West Asian antiquity.
- Advances our understanding of household and familial religion, as opposed to state-sponsored or civic temple cults
- Reconstructs domestic and family religious practices in Egypt, Greece, Rome, Israel, Mesopotamia, Ugarit, Emar, and Philistia
- Explores many household rituals, such as providing for ancestral spirits, and petitioning of a household’s patron deities or of spirits associated with the house itself
- Examines lifecycle rituals – from pregnancy and birth to maturity, old age, death, and beyond
- Looks at religious practices relating to the household both within the home itself and other spaces, such as at extramural tombs and local sanctuaries
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Year:
2008
Publisher:
Wiley-Blackwell
Language:
english
Pages:
324
ISBN 10:
1405175796
ISBN 13:
9781405175791
Series:
Ancient World: Comparative Histories
File:
PDF, 2.20 MB
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CID , CID Blake2b
english, 2008
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