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Religions of the Ancient World: A Guide (Harvard University Press Reference Library) by Jan Assmann; Harold W Attridge; Harold Attridge; Mary Beard; Paul-Alain Beaulieu; Jan Bremmer; Olivier de Cazanove; John J Collins; John J Collins; David Frankfurter; Fritz Graf; Sarah Iles Johnston; Bruce Lincoln; William Malandra; Nanno Marinatos; Jon Mikalson; John North; Eckart Otto; John Scheid; Michael Stausberg; David P Wright; David P Wright is a nonfiction available to read on EtoBox.
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Religious beliefs and practices, which permeated all aspects of life in antiquity, traveled well-worn routes throughout the Mediterranean: itinerant charismatic practitioners journeying from place to place peddled their skills as healers, purifiers, cursers, and initiators; and vessels decorated with illustrations of myths traveled with them. New gods encountered in foreign lands by merchants and conquerors were sometimes taken home to be adapted and adopted. A full understanding of this complex spiritual world unfolds in Religions of the Ancient World , the first basic reference work that collects and organizes available information to offer an expansive, comparative perspective. At once sweeping in scope and groundbreaking in format, the Guide eschews the usual encyclopedic approach, instead presenting, side by side, materials from ten cultures and traditions. Thus specific beliefs, cults, gods, and ritual practices that arose and developed in Mediterranean religions--of Egypt, Anatolia and the Near East, Mesopotamia, Iran, Greece, and the Roman world, from the third millennium to the fourth century C.E.--are interpreted in comparison with one another, and with reference to as
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- Author
- Jan Assmann; Harold W Attridge; Harold Attridge; Mary Beard; Paul-Alain Beaulieu; Jan Bremmer; Olivier de Cazanove; John J Collins; John J Collins; David Frankfurter; Fritz Graf; Sarah Iles Johnston; Bruce Lincoln; William Malandra; Nanno Marinatos; Jon Mikalson; John North; Eckart Otto; John Scheid; Michael Stausberg; David P Wright; David P Wright
- Publisher
- Belknap Press; Belknap Press of Harvard University Press
- Published
- 2004
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9780674264823
- Category
- nonfiction
- Subjects
- Religion, History, Christian
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