TY - BOOK AU - Kaizer,Ted TI - The variety of local religious life in the Near East in the Hellenistic and Roman periods SN - 9789004167353 (hardback : alk. paper) AV - BL1060 .V37 2008 U1 - 200.939/409014 22 PY - 2008/// CY - Leiden, Boston PB - Brill KW - Middle East KW - Religious life and customs N1 - Includes bibliographical references (p. [263]-310) and indexes; Introduction / Ted Kaizer -- The aniconic image of the Roman Near East / Milette Gaifman -- Sanctuaries and villages on Mt. Hermon during the Roman period / Julien Aliquot -- Religious architecture in the Roman Near East : temples of the basalt lands (Trachon and Hauran) / Arthur Segal -- Artemis and Zeus Olympios in Roman Gerasa and seleucid religious policy / Achim Lichtenberger -- How to be a bad Samaritan : the local cult of Mt. Gerizim / Jonathan Kirkpatrick -- Man and god at Palmyra : sacrifice, lectisternia and banquets / Ted Kaizer -- Tradition and change in the beliefs at Assur, Nineveh and Nisibis between 300 BC and AD 300 / Peter W. Haider -- Aspects of Hatrene religion : a note on the statues of kings and nobles from Hatra / Lucinda Dirven -- Ephraem Syrus and the solar cult / Jürgen Tubach UR - http://www.loc.gov/catdir/toc/ecip0811/2008006514.html UR - http://www.h-net.org/reviews/showrev.php?id=24146 ER -