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 LUZERN CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY PRESS 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 LUZERN CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY PRESS CONTENTS 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 .