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The Cambridge History of Religions of the Classical World Marvin Sweeney

The Cambridge History of Religions of the Classical World By Marvin Sweeney

The Cambridge History of Religions of the Classical World by Marvin Sweeney


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The Cambridge History of Religion in the Classical World provides a comprehensive and in-depth analysis of the religions of the ancient Near East and Mediterranean world in the third millennium BCE to the fourth century BCE.

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About Marvin Sweeney

Marvin A. Sweeney is Professor of Religion at the Claremont School of Theology. He is the author of nine volumes and numerous studies, including 1 and 2 Kings: A Commentary (2007) and Form and Intertextuality in Prophetic and Apocalyptic Literature (2005). He is the Editor of Hebrew Studies, the founding editor of the Review of Biblical Literature, co-editor of the Forms of the Old Testament Literature commentary series, Mitarbeiter for the De Gruyter International Encyclopedia of the Bible, and CEO of the Ancient Biblical Manuscript Center for Preservation and Research. Michele Renee Salzman is Professor of History at the University of California at Riverside. She is the author of three books and numerous articles, including On Roman Time: The Codex-Calendar of 354 and the Rhythms of Urban Life in Late Antiquity (1990), The Making of a Christian Aristocracy (2002); and (with Michael Roberts) The First Book of Symmachus' Letters, a translation, introduction, and commentary, (2011). She is on the editorial Board of the American Journal of Archaeology and on the Executive Committee of the American Academy in Rome.

Table of Contents

Introduction to volumes I and II Michele R. Salzman; Introduction to volume I Marvin A. Sweeney; Part I. Mesopotamia and the Near East: 1. Sumerian religion Graham Cunningham; 2. Assyrian and Babylonian religions Tammi J. Schneider; 3. Hittite religion Gary Beckman; 4. Zoroastrianism P. Oktor Skaervo; 5. Syro-Canaanite religions: a construct of metaphors David Wright; 6. Ancient Israelite and Judean religions Marvin A. Sweeney; Part II. Egypt and North Africa: 7. Egyptian religion Denise M. Doxey; 8. Phoenician and Punic religion Philip C. Schmitz; Part III. Greece and the Eastern Mediterranean: 9. Minoan religion Nanno Marinatos; 10. Mycenaean religion Ian Rutherford; 11. Religion in the Greek world, c. 750-400 BCE Emily Kearns; Part IV. The Western Mediterranean and Europe: 12. Etruscan religion Nancy T. de Grummond; 13. Archaic Roman religion through the Early Republic Jorg Rupke; 14. Celtic religion in western and central Europe Dorothy Watts; Suggestions for further reading.

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NPB9780521858304
9780521858304
0521858305
The Cambridge History of Religions of the Classical World: Vol. 1 by Marvin Sweeney
New
Hardback
Cambridge University Press
2012-08-01
385
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