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Religion and religious practice in the Seleucid Kingdom / edited by Per Bilde [and others].

Contributor(s): Bilde, Per [ed.] | Seminar on Religion and Religious Practice in the Seleucid Kingdom (1990 : Denmark)Material type: TextTextSeries: Studies in Hellenistic civilization ; 1Publication details: Aarhus, Denmark : Aarhus University Press, 1990. Description: 269 p. : ill. ; 25 cmISBN: 8772883227Subject(s): Séleucides (dynastie) | Seleucids -- Religious life and customs | Hellenism | History, Ancient | Syria -- History -- 333 B.C.-634 A.DGenre/Form: Congresses (form)LOC classification: DS96 | .R45 1990
Contents:
Notes on culture and identity in imperial worlds / Jonathan Friedman -- The Seleucid kingdom, the Achaemenid empire and the history of the Near East in the first millennium BC / Pierre Briant -- Interpretations and misinterpretations of the East in Hellenistic times / Javier Teixidor -- Kings and gods in the Seleucid empire: a question of landed property in Asia Minor / Signe Isager -- Temple architecture in the Seleucid kingdom / Lise Hannestad and Daniel Potts -- Religious motifs on Seleucid coins / Jan Zahle -- The survival and modification of Zoroastrianism in Seleucid times / Bodil Hjerrild -- Atartagis/Dea Syria: Hellenization of her cult in the Hellenistic-Roman period? / Per Bilde -- The Maccabean rebellion and the question of 'Hellenization" / Niels Hyldahl -- Religion, ethnicity and 'Hellenism' in the emergence of Jewish identity in Maccabean Palestine / Shaye D. Cohen -- Crisis and religious reaction: Jewish apocalypticism / Benedikt Otzen.
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Some of the papers presented at an international seminar on Religion and Religious Practice in the Seleucid Kingdom held at Fuglsang Manor in southern Denmark in January 1990.

Includes bibliographical references (p. [237]-253) and index.

Notes on culture and identity in imperial worlds / Jonathan Friedman -- The Seleucid kingdom, the Achaemenid empire and the history of the Near East in the first millennium BC / Pierre Briant -- Interpretations and misinterpretations of the East in Hellenistic times / Javier Teixidor -- Kings and gods in the Seleucid empire: a question of landed property in Asia Minor / Signe Isager -- Temple architecture in the Seleucid kingdom / Lise Hannestad and Daniel Potts -- Religious motifs on Seleucid coins / Jan Zahle -- The survival and modification of Zoroastrianism in Seleucid times / Bodil Hjerrild -- Atartagis/Dea Syria: Hellenization of her cult in the Hellenistic-Roman period? / Per Bilde -- The Maccabean rebellion and the question of 'Hellenization" / Niels Hyldahl -- Religion, ethnicity and 'Hellenism' in the emergence of Jewish identity in Maccabean Palestine / Shaye D. Cohen -- Crisis and religious reaction: Jewish apocalypticism / Benedikt Otzen.