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Travel and Religion in Antiquity

  • Hardback
  • 306 pages
  • Publisher: Wilfrid Laurier University Press
  • 16.5 x 23.3 x 3 cm

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This book 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 organised 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 archaeological 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.
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  • Title

    Travel and Religion in Antiquity

  • Author

    Philip A. Harland

  • Book Format

    Hardback

  • Publisher

    Wilfrid Laurier University Press

  • Published

    March 2011

  • Weight

    568g

  • Page Count

    306

  • Dimensions

    16.5 x 23.3 x 3 cm

  • ISBN

    9781554582228

  • ISBN-10

    1554582229

  • Eden Code

    3128303

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