Travel and Religion in Antiquity considers the importance of issues relating to travel for our understanding of religious and cultural life among Jews, Christians, and others in the ancient world, particularly during the Hellenistic and Roman eras. The volume is organized around five overlapping areas where religion and travel intersect: travel related to honouring deities, including travel to festivals, oracles, and healing sanctuaries; travel to communicate the efficacy of a god or the superiority of a way of life, including the diffusion of cults or movements; travel to explore and encounter foreign peoples or cultures, including descriptions of these cultures in ancient ethnographic materials; migration; and travel to engage in an occupation or vocation.
With interdisciplinary contributions that cover a range of literary, epigraphic, and archeological materials, the volume sheds light on the importance of movement in connection with religious life among Greeks, Romans, Nabateans, and others, including Judeans and followers of Jesus.
- Bibliography, etc. Note
- Includes bibliographical references
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- CaOOCEL
- Dewey Decimal Classification Number
- 203/.50938
- Dewey Decimal Edition Number
- 22
- General Note
- Issued as part of the desLibris books collection
- Geographic Area Code
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- ISBN
- 9781554582228 9781554582402
- LCCN
- DF121
- LCCN Item number
- T73 2010eb
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- CaBNVSL
- Original cataloging agency
- CaOTBNC
- Physical Description | Extent
- 1 electronic text (xii, 289 p.)
- Published in
- Canada
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- CaOOCEL
- Rights
- Access restricted to authorized users and institutions
- System Control Number
- (CaBNVSL)slc00226912 (OCoLC)744533821 (CaOOCEL)433827
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- Mode of access: World Wide Web
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- CaOONL
Table of Contents
- Cover 1
- Contents 8
- Map: The Ancient Mediterranean 11
- Preface 12
- I: Pausing at the Intersection of Religion and Travel 14
- HONOURING THE GODS 40
- II: Religion on the Road in Ancient Greece and Rome 42
- III: Going Up to Jerusalem: Pilgrimage, Purity, the Historical Jesus 62
- IV: Pilgrimage, Place, and Meaning Making by Jews in Greco-Roman Egypt 82
- V: Have Horn, Will Travel: The Journeys of Mesopotamian Deities 96
- PROMOTING A DEITY OR WAY OF LIFE 112
- VI: The Divine Wanderer: Travel and Divinization in Late Antiquity 114
- VII: Journeys in Pursuit of Divine Wisdom: Thessalos and Other Seekers 136
- VIII: “Danger in the wilderness, danger at sea”: Paul and the Perils of Travel 154
- ENCOUNTERING FOREIGN CULTURES 176
- IX: Roman Translation: Tacitus and Ethnographic Interpretation 178
- MIGRATING 198
- X: Migration and the Emergence of Greco-Roman Diaspora Judaism 200
- MAKING A LIVING 226
- XI: Religion and the Nomadic Lifestyle: The Nabateans 228
- XII: Christians on the Move in Late Antique Oxyrhynchus 248
- Works Cited 268
