The Cambridge History of Religions in the Ancient World: Volume 1, from the Bronze Age to the Hellenistic Age

ISBN-13: 9781108703130 / Angielski / Miękka / 2018 / 464 str.

Michele Renee Salzman;Marvin A. Sweeney

Opis

An in-depth analysis of the religions of the ancient Near East and Mediterranean world in the third millennium BCE to the fourth century BCE.

Spis treści

Introduction to Volumes 1 and 2 Michele Renee Salzman; Introduction to Volume 1 Marvin A. Sweeney; Part I. Mesopotamia and the Near East: 1. Sumerian religion Graham Cunningham; 2. Assyrian and Babylonian religions Tammi J. Schneider; 3. Hittite religion Gary Beckman; 4. Zoroastrianism P. Oktor Skaervo; 5. Syro-Canaanite religions: a construct of metaphors David Wright; 6. Ancient Israelite and Judean religions Marvin A. Sweeney; Part II. Egypt and North Africa: 7. Egyptian religion Denise M. Doxey; 8. Phoenician and Punic religion Philip C. Schmitz; Part III. Greece and the Eastern Mediterranean: 9. Minoan religion Nanno Marinatos; 10. Mycenaean religion Ian Rutherford; 11. Religion in the Greek world, c.750–400 BCE Emily Kearns; Part IV. The Western Mediterranean and Europe: 12. Etruscan religion Nancy T. de Grummond; 13. Archaic Roman religion through the Early Republic Jörg Rüpke; 14. Celtic religion in western and central Europe Dorothy Watts; Suggestions for further reading.