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Religious identities in the Levant from Alexander to Muhammed : continuity and change
- Author / Creator
- Conferences
- Continuity and change (Conference) (2010 : Danish Institute in Damascus), author
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- Creator
- edited by Michael Blömer, Achim Lichtenberger, and Rubina Raja
- Format
- Books
- Languages
- English, French, German
- Contributors
- Publication
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- Turnhout, Belgium : Brepols, [2015]
- ©2015
- Physical Details
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- xxxvi, 422 pages : illustrations, maps ; 28 cm
- ISBNs
- 9782503544458, 2503544452
- OCLC
- ocn885231137
- "This volume stems from the conference Continunity and change: religious identities in the Levant from Alexander to Muhammed held at the Danish Institute in Damascus in March 2010"--Page 1.
- Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
- In English, French, and German.
- Part I. General: Signes du changement: réalités et faux-semblants / Maurice Sartre -- Familiar strangers': gods and worshippers away from home in the Roman Near East / Ted Kaizer -- Gymnasia: aspects of a Greek institution in the Hellenistic and Roman Near East / Frank Daubner -- The assembly rooms of religious groups in the Hellenistic and Roman Near East: a comparative study / Inge Neilsen -- The God who is called IAO: Judaism and Hellenistic mystery religions / Lester L. Grabbe -- Conversion, apologetic argumentation, and polemic (amongst friends) in second-century Syria: Theophilus' Ad autolycum / Jakob Engberg -- Politicising the religious, or, How the Umayyads co-opted classical iconography / Nasser Rabbat -- Part II. Northern Syria: The re-emergence of Iron Age religious iconography in Roman Syria / Guy Bunnens -- Religious continuity? the evidence from Doliche / Michael Blömer -- The Jebel Khalid Temple: continuity and change / Graeme Clarke -- A Laodicean on Mount Casius / Julien Aliquot -- Defining new gods: the daimones of Antiochus / Margherita Facella -- Images of priests in north Syria and beyond / Perduration, continuity and discontinuity in the sanctuary of Atargatis in Hierapolis (Syria) / Alejandro Egea -- The transformation of a saintly paradigm: Simeon the Elder and the legacy of stylitism / Volker Menze -- Part III. The Desert and Mesopotamia: Babylon in achaemenidischer und hellenistischer Zeit: eine Stellungnahme zur aktuellen Forschungsdiskussion / Wolfgang Messerschmidt -- Bel of Palmyra / Michael Gawlikowski -- Cult images in cities of the Syrian-Mesopotamian desert during the first three centuries CE: continuity and change / Lucinda Dirven -- St. Sergios in Resafa: worshipped by Christians and Muslim alike / Dorothée Sack -- Part IV. Southern Syria: Continuity and change of religious life in southern Syria during the Hellenistic and Roman periods / Klaus Stefan Freyberger -- Nouveaux dieux et dieux noveaus dans le Hauran (Syrie du sud) à l'époque romaine / Annie Sartre-Fauriat -- New archaeological research at the sanctuary of Sî' in southern Syria: the Graeco-Roman divinities invite themselves to Baalshamin / Jacqueline Dentzer-Feydy -- Part V. Palestine: The Hellenistic-Roman sancturary at et-Tell (Bethsaida) and the question of tradition in the layout of the holy place / Ilona Skupinska-Løvset -- More on the intentionally broken discus lamps from Roman Palestine: mutilation and its symbolic meaning / Oren Tal and Marcio Teixeira Bastos -- Part VI. Arabia: From Nabataea to the province of Arabia: changing religious identities and the cults of Dushara / Peter Alpass -- Romanisation through coins: the case of provincia Arabia / Cristina M. Acqua -- The last phases of the Cathedral Church of Jerash / Beat Brenk -- Index
Subjects
- Identification (Religion) -- History -- Congresses.
- Sacred space -- Middle East -- History -- Congresses.
- Religious architecture -- Middle East -- History -- Congresses.
- Art and religion -- Middle East -- History -- Congresses.
- Middle East -- Religion -- Congresses.
- Middle East -- Civilization -- To 622 -- Congresses.