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Travel and Religion in Antiquity (2011)

by Philip A. Harland (Editor)

Other authors: Lincoln H. Blumell (Contributor), Karljürgen G. Feuerherm (Contributor), Susan Haber (Contributor), Jack N. Lightstone (Contributor), Wayne O. McCready (Contributor)5 more, Steven Muir (Contributor), Michele Murray (Contributor), James B. Rives (Contributor), Ryan S. Schellenberg (Contributor), Ian W. Scott (Contributor)

Series: Studies in Christianity and Judaism (21)

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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.… (more)
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Harland, Philip A.Editorprimary authorall editionsconfirmed
Blumell, Lincoln H.Contributorsecondary authorall editionsconfirmed
Feuerherm, Karljürgen G.Contributorsecondary authorall editionsconfirmed
Haber, SusanContributorsecondary authorall editionsconfirmed
Lightstone, Jack N.Contributorsecondary authorall editionsconfirmed
McCready, Wayne O.Contributorsecondary authorall editionsconfirmed
Muir, StevenContributorsecondary authorall editionsconfirmed
Murray, MicheleContributorsecondary authorall editionsconfirmed
Rives, James B.Contributorsecondary authorall editionsconfirmed
Schellenberg, Ryan S.Contributorsecondary authorall editionsconfirmed
Scott, Ian W.Contributorsecondary authorall editionsconfirmed
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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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