Travel and Religion in Antiquity

Herausgeber: Harland, Philip A

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Travel and Religion in Antiquity considers the importance of issues relating to travel for our understanding of religious and cultural life among Jews, Christians, and others in the ancient world, particularly during the Hellenistic and Roman eras. The volume is organized around five overlapping areas where religion and travel intersect: travel related to honouring deities, including travel to festivals, oracles, and healing sanctuaries; travel to communicate the efficacy of a god or the superiority of a way of life, including the diffusion of cults or movements; travel to explore and encounter foreign peoples or cultures, including descriptions of these cultures in ancient ethnographic materials; migration; and travel to engage in an occupation or vocation. With interdisciplinary contributions that cover a range of literary, epigraphic, and archeological materials, the volume sheds light on the importance of movement in connection with religious life among Greeks, Romans, Nabateans, and others, including Judeans and followers of Jesus.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Wilfrid Laurier University Press
• Seitenzahl: 306
• Erscheinungstermin: 8. März 2011
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 236mm x 156mm x 25mm
• Gewicht: 564g
• ISBN-13: 9781554582228
• ISBN-10: 1554582229
• Artikelnr.: 28890234

Inhaltsangabe

Table of Contents for
Travel and Religion in Antiquity, edited by Philip A. Harland
Map: The Ancient Mediterranean
Preface
I. Pausing at the Intersection of Religion and Travel Philip A. Harland
Honouring the Gods
II. Religion on the Road in Ancient Greece and Rome Steven Muir
III. Going Up to Jerusalem: Pilgrimage, Purity, the Historical Jesus
Susan Haber
IV. Pilgrimage, Place, and Meaning Making by Jews in Greco-Roman Egypt
Wayne O. McCready
V. Have Horn, Will Travel: The Journeys of Mesopotamian Deities
Karljürgen G. Feuerherm
Promoting a Deity or Way of Life
VI. The Divine Wanderer: Travel and Divinization in Late Antiquity Ian W.
Scott
VII. Journeys in Pursuit of Divine Wisdom: Thessalos and Other Seekers
Philip A. Harland
VIII. "Danger in the wilderness, danger at sea": Paul and the Perils of
Travel Ryan S. Schellenberg
Encountering Foreign Cultures
IX. Roman Translation: Tacitus and Ethnographic Interpretation James B.
Rives
Migrating
X. Migration and the Emergence of Greco-Roman Diaspora Judaism Jack N.
Lightstone
Making A Living
XI. Religion and the Nomadic Lifestyle: The Nabateans Michele Murray
XII. Christians on the Move in Late Antique Oxyrhynchus Lincoln H.
Blumell
Works Cited