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religious architecture and text in the Near East and Egypt 1000 BC-AD 300
xx, 260 σ. : εικ. (μερ. έγχρ.), χάρτες, σχέδια ; 24 εκ.
"Redefining the Sacred originates in an international European Science Foundation Exploratory Workshop of the same name held at the University of Oxford in 2009 , and is the launch volume for the series Contextualising the Sacred. It comprises eight studies written by leading scholars, each of whom investigates aspects of the diverse and changing meanings of sacred environments in the Near East and Egypt from c. 1000 BC to AD 300. This was a time of dramatic social, political, and religious transformation in the region, and religious architecture, which was central to ancient environments, is a productive interpretive lens through which implications of these changes can be examined across cultural borders. Analysis of the development of urban, sub-urban, and extra-urban sanctuaries, as well as the written sources associated with them, shows how the religious identities of individuals, groups, and societies were shaped, transformed, and interconnected. By bringing together ancient historians, Assyriologists, Egyptologists, archaeologists, and philologists, the volume highlights the immense potential of diachronic studies of sacred space, which the series will take forward.-- Back cover.
ntroduction: Material culture and religious identity in the ancient Near East and Egypt / Elizabeth Frood and Rubina Raja -- Contextualizing the sacred / Joachim Ganzert -- Sacred topography of the empire : inscribing social order into the cosmic order / Beate Pongratz-Leisten -- Phoenician sacred places in the Mediterranean / Bärbel Morstadt -- Designing the sacred in early Ptolemaic times : a continuum of concepts / Filip Coppens -- The KTMW stele from Zincirli : Syro-Hittite mortuary cult and urban social networks / Virginia Rimmer Herrmann -- Temple and city in Hellenistic Uruk : sacred space and the transformation of late Babylonian society / Heather D. Baker -- Continuity, discontinuity, and change in religious life in southern Syria during the Roman period / Achim Lichtenberger -- The imperial office and the church in Ephrem the Syrian / Volker Menze.
edited by Elizabeth Frood and Rubina Raja.
"Originates in an international European Science Foundation Exploratory Workshop ... held at the University of Oxford in 2009."--Back cover.
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Beiträge zur Architektur- und Kulturgeschichte ; 8