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Travel and religion in antiquity /
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 are...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Waterloo, Ont. :
Wilfrid Laurier University Press,
©2011
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| Colección: | Studies in Christianity and Judaism ;
21. |
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
| Sumario: | 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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| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (xii, 289 pages) : illustrations, map, digital file |
| Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references. |
| ISBN: | 9781554582402 1554582407 1282166913 9781282166912 1554583446 9781554583447 1554582229 9781554582228 |