Redefining the sacred : religious architecture and text in the Near East and Egypt 1000 BC-AD 300 /
"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...
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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Turnhout, Belgium :
Brepols,
2004.
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| Series: | Contextualizing the sacred ;
1 Beiträge zur Architektur- und Kulturgeschichte ; 8 |
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Table of Contents:
- 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.
