Expressions of Cult in the Southern Levant in the Greco-Roman Period: Manifestations in Text and Material Culture 9782503553351

Table of contents :
List of Illustrations

Expressions of Cult in the Southern Levant in the Greco-Roman Period: Introductory Remarks — OREN TAL AND ZEEV WEISS

Part I: Cult in Context

Cults in Contexts in Hellenistic and Roman Southern Levant: The Challenge of Cult Places — NICOLE BELAYCHE

Cult and Culture: Amusing the Crowds under the Auspices of Gods and Caesars — ZEEV WEISS

Aurelian and the Cult of the Unconquerable Sun: The Institutionalization of Christmas, Solar Worship and Imperial Cult — MICHELE RENEE SALZMAN

The Beginnings of Philosophy of Religion and the Fate of Polytheism in the Late Antique Levant — ROBERT LAMBERTON

Part II: Cult and Cult Places in the Urban Sphere

People and Gods in the Cities of Roman Palestine: A　Preliminary Inquiry into the Popularity of Civic Cults — AVNER ECKER

Deities at the Service of Cities and PeopleL Sculpted Images from Caesarea Maritima — RIVKA GERSHT

Markers of Pagan Cults in a Jewish City: Rethinking the Hadrianeum of Tiberias — SHULAMIT MILLER

Part III: Cultic Practices beyond the Temple Premises

Votive Offerings from the Late Roman Period in the Te’omim Cave, Western Jerusalem Hills — BOAZ ZISSU, EITAN KLEIN, URI DAVIDOVICH, RO’I PORAT, BOAZ LANGFORD, AND AMOS FRUMKIN

　

A Mediterranean Overview on Painted Motifs in the Southern Levant — ALIX BARBET

(Presumable) Cultic Artefacts from Domestic Contexts at Dora — RENATE ROSENTHAL-HEGINBOTTOM

Magic in the Cemeteries of Late Antique Palestine — GIDEON BOHAK

More Than Trash: Cultic Use of Pottery Lamps Found in Late Antique Dumps: Apollonia (Sozousa) as a Test Case — OREN TAL AND ITAMAR TAXEL

Part IV: Coins as Evidencing Cult

Coin Iconography and Archaeology: Methodological Considerations about Architectural Depictions on City Coins of Palestine — ACHIM LICHTENBERGER

Heroes and Deities on the Coins of Gaza under Roman Rule: The Case of Io, the Argive Nymph and Minos, The Mythic King of Crete — YOAV FARHI

Unpublished Coin Type of a Nursing Woman — GABRIELA BIJOVSKY

Part V: Cult-related Issues of Jewish Faith

Temple, Cult, and Consumption in Second Temple Jerusalem — HAYIM LAPIN

Debt Fraud, Ḥērem Entrapment, and Other Crimes Involving Cultic Property in Late Hellenistic and Early Roman Judea — BENJAMIN　D. GORDON

The Decline of Jewish Ritual Purity Observance in Roman Palaestina: An Archaeological Perspective on Chronology and Historical Context — YONATAN ADLER

Index

Polecaj historie

Material Culture Matters: Essays on the Archaeology of the Southern Levant in Honor of Seymour Gitin 9781575068787

Dr. Seymour Gitin is completing his tenure as Director and Dorot Professor at the W. F. Albright Institute of Archaeolog

201 96 5MB Read more

Collections and Objections: Aboriginal Material Culture in Southern Ontario 9780773580657

A nuanced study of conflicts over possession of Aboriginal artifacts.

229 87 5MB Read more

Travels in Southern Europe and the Levant, 1810-1817 9780415193078

228 57 363KB Read more

Metalwork and Material Culture In the Islamic World: Art, Craft and Text 9780755694099, 9781780763231

The material and visual culture of the Islamic World casts vast arcs through space and time, and encompasses a huge rang

399 49 58MB Read more

In the Levant 9781463208578

A travel through the Holy Land, Lebanon, Syria, Turkey, Greece, Cyprus, Rhodes, and the Aegean Islands; with many illust

202 75 20MB Read more

The Lithic Industries of Zahrat Adh-Dhra' 2 and the Pre-Pottery Neolithic Period of the Southern Levant 9781841716749, 9781407327563

This work has as its main objective to clarify the nature of the early Neolithic period in the Southern Levant, in as mu

225 80 16MB Read more

In the Levant 9783732644599

212 17 494KB Read more

In the Levant 9781463208578

A travel through the Holy Land, Lebanon, Syria, Turkey, Greece, Cyprus, Rhodes, and the Aegean Islands; with many illust

181 4 20MB Read more

Phoenician Amphora Production and Distribution in the Southern Levant: A multi-disciplinary investigation into carinated-shoulder amphorae of the Persian period (539-332 BC) 9781841715506, 9781407325903

The primary aim of this monograph is to use one commodity type, the carinated-shoulder amphora, to investigate the level

168 32 31MB Read more

The Material Culture of Death in Medieval Japan 9780824837556

This study is the first in the English language to explore the ways medieval Japanese sought to overcome their sense of

191 55 5MB Read more