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Household and Family Religion in Antiquity - Bodel, John (Editor), and Olyan, Saul M. (Editor)
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The first book to explore the religious dimensions of the family and the household in ancient Mediterranean and West Asian antiquity. Advances our understanding of household and familial religion, as opposed to state-sponsored or civic temple cults Reconstructs domestic and family religious practices in Egypt, Greece, Rome, Israel, Mesopotamia, Ugarit, Emar, and Philistia Explores many household rituals, such as providing for ancestral spirits, and petitioning of a household's patron deities or of spirits associated with ...

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Household and Family Religion in Antiquity 2012, Wiley-Blackwell, Hoboken

ISBN-13: 9781118255339

Paperback

Household and Family Religion in Antiquity 2008, Wiley-Blackwell

ISBN-13: 9781405175791

Hardcover