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Household and Family Religion in Antiquity

John Bodel (Editor), Saul M. Olyan (Editor)
ISBN: 978-1-4051-7579-1
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346 pages
June 2008, Wiley-Blackwell
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List of Figures vii

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

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