Human transgression - divine retribution : a study of religious transgressions and punishments in Greek cultic regulation and Lydian-Phyrgian propitiatory inscriptions ('confession inscriptions') /

This book analyses pagan concepts of religious transgressions as expressed in Greek cultic regulations from the 5th century BC-3rd century AD. Also considered are so-called propitiatory inscriptions from the 1st-3rd century AD Lydia and Phrygia, in light of 'cultic morality', intended to m...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Rostad, Aslak (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Oxford : Archaeopress, 2020.
Colección:Archaeopress archaeology.
Temas:
Sin > Greek religion.
Retribution > Religious aspects > Greek religion.
Inscriptions, Lydian.
Inscriptions, Phrygian.
Inscriptions lydiennes.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Cover
  • Title Page
  • Copyright Page
  • Table of Contents
  • Abbreviations
  • Foreword
  • Part 1. Introduction and Aims of the Study
  • Chapter 1. Introduction
  • Chapter 2. Aims of the Study
  • General remarks
  • Greek or Oriental religiosity
  • Notes on method
  • The structure of the study
  • Interpretive approach
  • Time, geography and context
  • Sources
  • Concluding remarks
  • Part 2. The Propitiatory Inscriptions
  • Chapter 3. The Propitiatory Inscriptions and their Religious Context
  • I. Propitiatory inscriptions
  • Geography
  • Time
  • Content
  • Structure
  • Confession of sin
  • Oriental religiosity
  • Theocracy and a religious legal system
  • II. Trails in recent research
  • Research following Petzl's publication
  • The research situation since 2006
  • III. Conclusions
  • Part 3. Religious Transgressions and Punishments
  • Chapter 5. Greek Cultic Morality
  • I. Cultic morality
  • definition
  • Introduction
  • Morality, moral philosophy and ethics
  • Cultic morality and cultic legislation
  • Piety
  • II. Boundaries and social control
  • External boundaries
  • Internal boundaries
  • III. Creating sacred space
  • Sacred space
  • Defining the genre
  • Publications and classification of cultic regulations
  • Rules for the protection of sacred property.
  • II. Prohibitions in cultic regulations
  • Prohibitions against entry
  • General purity rules
  • Prohibitions against impurity
  • Detailed purity rules
  • Death pollution
  • Birth pollution
  • Sexual pollution
  • Dietary rules
  • Clothes, weapons and jewellery
  • Domestic animals
  • Damage to sacred property
  • Violations of sacred trees and groves
  • Other prohibitions concerning sacred property
  • III. Punishments in cultic regulations
  • Civil punishments
  • Fines

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