Religious Identities in the Levant from Alexander to Muhammed: Continuity and Change

By: BLÖMER, Michael Contributor(s): LICHTENBERGER, Achim | RAJA, RubinaMaterial type: TextTextSeries: Contextualizing the Sacred ; 4Publication details: Turnhout Brepols 2015 Edition: 1stISBN: 9780000000000Subject(s): Identification (Religion)--History--To 1500--Congresses | Middle East--Civilization--To 622--Congresses | Middle East--Religion--Congresses | Religion and Culture--Middle East--History | Religious architecture--Middle East--History--To 1500--Congresses
Contents:
IntroductionContinuity and Change: Religious Identities in the Levant from Alexander to Muhammad -- MICHAEL BLÖMER, ACHIM LICHTENBERGER and RUBINA RAJAI. GeneralLes signes du changement: réalités et faux-semblants -- MAURICE SARTRE'Familiar Strangers': Gods and Worshippers away from Home in the Roman Near East -- TED KAIZERGymnasia: Aspects of a Greek Institution in the Hellenistic and Roman Near East -- FRANK DAUBNERThe Assembly Rooms of Religious Groups in the Hellenistic and Roman Near East: A Comparative Study -- INGE NIELSEN'The God who is called IAO': Judaism and Hellenistic Mystery Religions -- LESTER L. GRABBEConversion, Apologetic Argumentation and Polemic (amongst friends) in Second Century Syria: Theophilus' Ad Autolycum -- JAKOB ENGBERGPoliticizing the Religious: Or How the Umayyads Co-opted Classical Iconography -- NASSER RABBATII. Northern SyriaThe Re-emergence of Iron Age Religious Iconography in Roman Syria -- GUY BUNNENSReligious Continuity? The Evidence from Doliche -- MICHAEL BLÖMERThe Jebel Khalid Temple: Continuity and Change -- GRAEME CLARKEA Laodicean on Mount Casius -- JULIEN ALIQUOTDefining New Gods: the Daimones of Antiochus -- MARGHERITA FACELLAImages of Priests in North Syria and beyond -- MICHAEL BLÖMERPerduration, Continuity and Discontinuity in the Sanctuary of Atargatis in Hierapolis (Syria) -- ALEJANDRO EGEAThe Transformation of a Saintly Paradigm: Simeon the Elder and the Legacy of Stylitism -- VOLKER MENZEIII. The Desert and MesopotamiaBabylon in achaemenidischer und hellenistischer Zeit: Eine Stellungnahme zur aktuellen Forschungsdiskussion -- WOLFGANG MESSERSCHMIDTBel of Palmyra -- MICHAL GAWLIKOWSKICult Images in Cities of the Syrian-Mesopotamian Desertduring the First Three Centuries CE:Continuity and Change -- LUCINDA DIRVENSt. Sergios in Resafa: Worshipped by Christians and Muslims Alike -- DOROTHÉE SACKIV. Southern SyriaContinuity and Change of Religious Life in Southern Syria during the Hellenstic and Roman Periods -- KLAUS STEFAN FREYBERGERNouveaux dieux et dieux nouveaux dans le Hauran (Syrie du sud) à l'époque romaine -- ANNIE SARTRE-FAURIATNew archaeological research at the sanctuary of Sî' in southern Syria: the Graeco-Roman divinities invite themselves to Baalshamîn -- JACQUELINE DENTZER-FEYDYV. PalestineThe Hellenistic-Roman Sanctuary at et-Tell (Bethsaida) and the Question of Tradition in the Layout of the Holy Place -- ILONA SKUPINSKA-LØVSETMore on the Intentionally Broken Discus Lamps from Roman Palestine: Mutilation and its Symbolic Meaning -- OREN TAL AND MARCIO TEXEIRA BASTOSVI. ArabiaFrom Nabataea to the Province of Arabia: Changing Religious Identities and the Cults of Dushara -- PETER ALPASS'Romanization' through Coins: The Case of Provincia Arabia -- CRISTINA M. ACQUAThe Last Phases of the Cathedral Church of Jerash -- BEAT BRENK
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Continuity and Change (Conference) (2010: Danish Institute in Damascus)

IntroductionContinuity and Change: Religious Identities in the Levant from Alexander to Muhammad -- MICHAEL BLÖMER, ACHIM LICHTENBERGER and RUBINA RAJAI. GeneralLes signes du changement: réalités et faux-semblants -- MAURICE SARTRE'Familiar Strangers': Gods and Worshippers away from Home in the Roman Near East -- TED KAIZERGymnasia: Aspects of a Greek Institution in the Hellenistic and Roman Near East -- FRANK DAUBNERThe Assembly Rooms of Religious Groups in the Hellenistic and Roman Near East: A Comparative Study -- INGE NIELSEN'The God who is called IAO': Judaism and Hellenistic Mystery Religions -- LESTER L. GRABBEConversion, Apologetic Argumentation and Polemic (amongst friends) in Second Century Syria: Theophilus' Ad Autolycum -- JAKOB ENGBERGPoliticizing the Religious: Or How the Umayyads Co-opted Classical Iconography -- NASSER RABBATII. Northern SyriaThe Re-emergence of Iron Age Religious Iconography in Roman Syria -- GUY BUNNENSReligious Continuity? The Evidence from Doliche -- MICHAEL BLÖMERThe Jebel Khalid Temple: Continuity and Change -- GRAEME CLARKEA Laodicean on Mount Casius -- JULIEN ALIQUOTDefining New Gods: the Daimones of Antiochus -- MARGHERITA FACELLAImages of Priests in North Syria and beyond -- MICHAEL BLÖMERPerduration, Continuity and Discontinuity in the Sanctuary of Atargatis in Hierapolis (Syria) -- ALEJANDRO EGEAThe Transformation of a Saintly Paradigm: Simeon the Elder and the Legacy of Stylitism -- VOLKER MENZEIII. The Desert and MesopotamiaBabylon in achaemenidischer und hellenistischer Zeit: Eine Stellungnahme zur aktuellen Forschungsdiskussion -- WOLFGANG MESSERSCHMIDTBel of Palmyra -- MICHAL GAWLIKOWSKICult Images in Cities of the Syrian-Mesopotamian Desertduring the First Three Centuries CE:Continuity and Change -- LUCINDA DIRVENSt. Sergios in Resafa: Worshipped by Christians and Muslims Alike -- DOROTHÉE SACKIV. Southern SyriaContinuity and Change of Religious Life in Southern Syria during the Hellenstic and Roman Periods -- KLAUS STEFAN FREYBERGERNouveaux dieux et dieux nouveaux dans le Hauran (Syrie du sud) à l'époque romaine -- ANNIE SARTRE-FAURIATNew archaeological research at the sanctuary of Sî' in southern Syria: the Graeco-Roman divinities invite themselves to Baalshamîn -- JACQUELINE DENTZER-FEYDYV. PalestineThe Hellenistic-Roman Sanctuary at et-Tell (Bethsaida) and the Question of Tradition in the Layout of the Holy Place -- ILONA SKUPINSKA-LØVSETMore on the Intentionally Broken Discus Lamps from Roman Palestine: Mutilation and its Symbolic Meaning -- OREN TAL AND MARCIO TEXEIRA BASTOSVI. ArabiaFrom Nabataea to the Province of Arabia: Changing Religious Identities and the Cults of Dushara -- PETER ALPASS'Romanization' through Coins: The Case of Provincia Arabia -- CRISTINA M. ACQUAThe Last Phases of the Cathedral Church of Jerash -- BEAT BRENK