Household and family religion in antiquity / edited by John Bodel and Saul M. Olyan. [print]

Introduction John Bodel and Saul M. Olyan -- Theorizing the religion of ancient households and families Stanley K. Stowers -- Family religion in second millennium West Asia (Mesopotamia, Emar, Nuzi) / Karel van der Toorn -- The integration of household and community religion in ancient Syria Daniel E. Fleming -- Family, household, and local religion at late bronze age ugarit Theodore J. Lewis -- Family religion in ancient Irael and its surroundings Rainer Albertz -- Family religion in Israel and the wider Levant of the first millennium BCE Saul M. Olyan -- Household religion, family religion, and women's religion in ancient Israel Susan Ackerman -- Ashdod and the material remains of domestic cults in the Philistine Coastal Plain R'diger Schmitt -- Household religion in ancient Egypt Robert K. Ritner -- Household and domestic religion in ancient Egypt Barbara S. Lesko -- Household religion in ancient Greece Christopher A. Faraone -- Family matters : domestic religion in classical Greece Deborah Boedeker -- Cicero's Minerva, Penates, and the mother of the Lares : an outline of -- Roman domestic religion John Bodel -- Comparative perspectives John Bodel and Saul M. Olyan.

"Household and Family Religion in Antiquity is the first book to explore the religious dimensions of the family and the household in ancient Mediterranean and West Asian antiquity." "With an approach that is both contextual and comparative, essays examine domestic and familial religious practices in Egypt, Greece, Rome, Israel, Mesopotamia, Ugarit, Emar, and Philistia. Taking in a range of religious expression, from supplication of a household's patron deities to contact with dead ancestors, Household and Family Religion in Antiquity advances our understanding of a distinct and widespread ancient religions phenomenon."--BOOK JACKET.

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