THE CAMBRIDGE HISTORY OF RELIGIONS IN THE ANCIENT WORLD

VOLUME I FROM THE BRONZE AGE TO THE HELLENISTIC AGE

Edited by Michele Salzman Marvin A. Sweeney General Editor School 'Theology University of California, Riverside

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digitalisiert durch: The Cambridge history of religions in the ancient world IDS Luzern 2013 CONTENTS

List of Figures and Maps page vii List of Contributors ix List of Abbreviations xi Acknowledgments xiii

Introduction to Volumes I and II RENEE SALZMAN, GENERAL EDITOR

Introduction to Volume I 23 MARVIN A. SWEENEY, EDITOR

Part I. Mesopotamia and the Near East

Sumerian Religion GRAHAM CUNNINGHAM

2. Assyrian and Babylonian Religions 54 J. SCHNEIDER

3. Hittite Religion 84 GARY BECKMAN

4. PRODS OKTOR

5. Syro-Canaanite Religions DAVID P. WRIGHT

6. Israelite and Judean Religions MARVIN A. SWEENEY vi Contents

Part II. Egypt and North Africa 7. Egyptian Religion DENISE M. DOXEY 8. Phoenician-Punic Religion 205 PHILIP C. SCHMITZ

Part III. Greece and the Eastern Mediterranean 9. Minoan Religion 237 NANNO MARINATOS Mycenaean Religion 256 IAN RUTHERFORD Archaic and Classical Greek Religion 280 EMILY KEARNS

Part IV. The Mediterranean and Europe Etruscan Religion 309 NANCY T. DE GRUMMOND Roman Religion through the Early Republic 336 JORG

Celtic Religion in Western and Central Europe 364 DOROTHY WATTS

Suggestions for Further Reading 387 General Index 393 Index of Citations Textual and Material Sources Scriptural Sources 448 THE CAMBRIDGE HISTORY OF RELIGIONS IN ANCIENT WORLD

VOLUME II FROM THE HELLENISTIC AGE TO LATE ANTIQUITY

Michele Renee General Editor University of California, Riverside

Edited by William North Carolina State University

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List of Figures Maps page vii List of Contributors ix List of Abbreviations xi

Introduction to Volume II I WILLIAM ADLER

Part I Iran and the Near East

Religion in Iran: The Parthian and Sasanian Periods (247 CE) 23 ALBERT DE JONG

2 Creating Local Religious Identities in the Roman Near East 54 TED KAIZER

3 Judaism in Palestine in the Hellenistic-Roman Periods 87 ESTHER ESHEL AND MICHAEL E. STONE

4 Post-70 Judaism in Judea and the Near East

5 Christianity in Syria SIDNEY H. GRIFFITH

Part II Egypt and North Africa

6 Traditional Religion in Ptolemaic and Roman Egypt DUNAND

7 Judaism in Egypt JOSEPH MODRZEJEWSKI vi Contents

8 Ancient Egyptian Christianity JACQUES VAN DER

Cult and Belief in Punic and Roman Africa 235 BRENT SHAW

Christianity in Roman Africa 264 ROBIN M. JENSEN

Part III Greece and Asia Minor

Religions of Greece and Asia Minor 295 LYNN E. ROLLER

Judaism in Asia Minor W. VAN DER HORST

Christianity in Asia Minor: Observations on the Epigraphy FRANK TROMBLEY

Part IV Italy, Roman Gaul, and Spain

Religion in Rome and Italy from the Late Republic through Late Antiquity MICHELE RENEE SALZMAN

Judaism in Italy and the West 398 GIANCARLO LACERENZA

Christianity in Italy DENNIS TROUT

Religions and Cities in Roman Gaul (First to Fourth Centuries CE) 446 WILLIAM VAN ANDRINGA

Christianity in Gaul 484 WILLIAM KLINGSHIRN

Religions of Roman Spain MICHAEL

Suggestions for Further Reading 533 General Index 543 Index of Citations