Household and Family Religion in AntiquityISBN: 978-1-4051-7579-1
Hardcover
346 pages
June 2008, Wiley-Blackwell
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Notes on Contributors x
Series Editor's Preface xiii
Acknowledgments xv
Map xvi
1 Introduction 1
John Bodel and Saul M. Olyan
2 Theorizing the Religion of Ancient Households and Families
5
Stanley K. Stowers
3 Family Religion in Second Millennium West Asia (Mesopotamia,
Emar, Nuzi) 20
Karel van der Toorn
4 The Integration of Household and Community Religion in Ancient
Syria 37
Daniel E. Fleming
5 Family, Household, and Local Religion at Late Bronze Age
Ugarit 60
Theodore J. Lewis
6 Family Religion in Ancient Israel and its Surroundings
89
Rainer Albertz
7 Family Religion in Israel and the Wider Levant of the First
Millennium bce 113
Saul M. Olyan
8 Household Religion, Family Religion, and Women's Religion in
Ancient Israel 127
Susan Ackerman
9 Ashdod and the Material Remains of Domestic Cults in the
Philistine Coastal Plain 159
Rüdiger Schmitt
10 Household Religion in Ancient Egypt 171
Robert K. Ritner
11 Household and Domestic Religion in Ancient Egypt 197
Barbara S. Lesko
12 Household Religion in Ancient Greece 210
Christopher A. Faraone
13 Family Matters: Domestic Religion in Classical Greece
229
Deborah Boedeker
14 Cicero's Minerva, Penates, and the Mother of the
Lares: An Outline of Roman Domestic Religion 248
John Bodel
15 Comparative Perspectives 276
John Bodel and Saul M. Olyan
Bibliography 283
Index 314