Ancient religions / [print]
Sarah Iles Johnston, general editor.
- Cambridge, Massachusetts : Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, (c)2007.
- xi, 266 pages : illistrations, maps ; 25 cm.
Includes bibliographies and index.
Encountering ancient religions. What is ancient Mediterranean religion? / Fritz Graf -- Monotheism and polytheism Ritual Myth Cosmology: time and history Pollution, sin, atonement, salvation Law and ethics Mysteries Religions in contact Writing and religion Magic Mesopotamia Syria and Canaan Israel Anatolia: Hittites Iran Minoan and Mycenaean civilizations Greece Etruria Rome Early Christianity Epilogue Jan Assmann -- Jan Bremmer -- Fritz Graf -- John J. Collins -- Harold W. Attridge -- Eckart Otto -- Sarah Iles Johnston -- John Scheid -- Mary Beard -- Sarah Iles Johnston. Histories. Egypt Jan Assmann and David Frankfurter -- Paul-Alain Beaulieu -- David P. Wright -- John J. Collins -- David P. Wright -- William Malandra and Michael Stausberg -- Nanno Marinatos -- Jon Mikalson -- Olivier de Cazanove -- John North -- Harold W. Attridge -- Bruce Lincoln.