Household and Family Religion in Antiquity.

From the library of Prof. Wolfgang Haase, long-time editor of ANRW and the International Journal of the Classical Tradition (IJCT). - Rubbed jacket, slightly scuffed corners on binding, otherwise very good and clean. / Beriebener Umschlag, leicht besto�ne Ecken am Einband, sonst sehr gut und sauber. - Contents: 1. Introduction by John Bodel and Saul M. Olyan -- 2. Theorizing the Religion of Ancient Households and Families by Stanley K. Stowers -- 3. Family Religion in Second Millennium West Asia (Mesopotamia, Emar, Nuzi) by Karel van der Toorn -- 4. The Integration of Household and Community Religion in Ancient Syria by Daniel E. Fleming -- 5. Family, Household, and Local Religion at Late Bronze Age Ugarit by Theodore J. Lewis -- 6. Family Religion in Ancient Israel and its Surroundings by Rainer Albertz -- 7. Family Religion in Israel and the Wider Levant of the First Millennium BCE by Saul M. Olyan -- 8. Household Religion, Family Religion, and Women�s Religion in Ancient Israel by Susan Ackerman -- 9. Ashdod and the Material Remains of Domestic Cults in the Philistine Coastal Plain by R�diger Schmitt -- 10. Household Religion in Ancient Egypt by Robert K. Ritner -- 11. Household and Domestic Religion in Ancient Egypt by Barbara S. Lesko -- 12. Household Religion in Ancient Greece by Christopher A. Faraone -- 13. Family Matters: Domestic Religion in Classical Greece by Deborah Boedeker -- 14. Cicero�s Minerva, Penates, and the Mother of the Lares: An Outline of Roman Domestic Religion by John Bodel -- 15. Comparative Perspectives by John Bodel and Saul M. Olyan. - John Bodel is Professor of Classics and History at Brown University. He writes about Roman social and cultural history, Latin epigraphy, and Latin literature of the empire. His books include Roman Brick Stamps in the Kelsey Museum (1983), Graveyards and Groves: A Study of the Lex Lucerina (1994), Epigraphic Evidena Ancient History from Inscriptions (editor, 2001), and Dediche sacre nelmondo greco-romano: Diffusione, funzioni, tipologie (edited with Mika Kajava, 2008). Saul M. Olyan is Samuel Ungerleider Jr. Professor of Judaic Studies and Professor of Religious Studies, Brown University. He is the author of Asherah and the Cult of Yahweh in Israel (1988), A Thousand Thousands Served Him: Exegesis and the Naming of Angels in Ancient Judaism (1993), Rites and Rank: Hierarchy in Biblical Representations of Cult (2000), Biblical Mourning: Ritual and Social Dimensions (2004), and Disability in the Hebrew Bible: Interpreting Mental and Physical Differences (2008). ISBN 9781405175791