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基本説明
New in paperback. Hardcover was published in 2008. Examines lifecycle rituals - from pregnancy and birth to maturity, old age, death, and beyond.
Full Description
The first book to explore the religious dimensions of the family and the household in ancient Mediterranean and West Asian antiquity.
Advances our understanding of household and familial religion, as opposed to state-sponsored or civic temple cults
Reconstructs domestic and family religious practices in Egypt, Greece, Rome, Israel, Mesopotamia, Ugarit, Emar, and Philistia
Explores many household rituals, such as providing for ancestral spirits, and petitioning of a household's patron deities or of spirits associated with the house itself
Examines lifecycle rituals - from pregnancy and birth to maturity, old age, death, and beyond
Looks at religious practices relating to the household both within the home itself and other spaces, such as at extramural tombs and local sanctuaries
Contents
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
