TY - BOOK AU - Holland,Glenn Stanfield TI - Gods in the desert: religions of the ancient Near East SN - 9780742562271 AV - BL1060 .G637 2010 PY - 2010/// CY - Lanham, Maryland PB - Rowman and Littlefield N1 - 1 (pages 285-288) and index; Religion and its characteristic expression --; Egypt : historical survey --; Egypt : the gods and the world they made --; Egypt : the king and royal power --; Egypt : the world of the dead --; Egypt : the human world --; Mesopotamia : historical survey --; Mesopotamia : the gods and the world they made --; Mesopotamia : the world of kings and heroes --; Mesopotamia : the world of the dead --; Mesopotamia : the human world --; Syria-Palestine : historical survey --; Syria-Palestine : the gods and the world they made --; Syria-Palestine : kings and prophets --; Syria-Palestine : suffering and death --; Syria-Palestine : the human world --; Change and continuity in the Hellenistic Age; 2 N2 - Explores the religious practices and traditions of ancient Middle Eastern cultures, discussing pyramids, tombs, and Egyptian temples, and describing the gods, rulers, beliefs about afterlife, and worship rituals of Egypt, Mesopotamia, and Syria-Palestine ER -