Gods, Objects, and Ritual Practice
Published on 1. July 2017
350 pages
978-1-937040-80-2 (ISBN)
Description
Conversations about materiality have helped forge a common meeting ground for scholars seeking to integrate images, sites, texts and implements in their approach to religion in the ancient Mediterranean. The thirteen chapters in this volume explore the productivity of these approaches, with case studies from Israel, Athens, Rome, Sicily and North Africa. The results foreground the capacity of material approaches to cast light on the cultural creation of the sacred through the integration of rhetorical, material, and iconographic means. They open more nuanced pathways to the uses of text in the study of material evidence. They highlight the potential for material objects to bring political and ethnic boundaries into the sacred realm. And they emphasize the role of ongoing interpretation, debate, and multiple readings in the creation of the sacred, in both ancient contexts and scholarly discussion.
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Content
- Intro
- Title
- Contents
- Abbreviations
- Contributors
- Blakely. Object, Image, and Text: Materiality and Ritual Practice in the Ancient Mediterranean
- van den Hoek. Divine Twins or Saintly Twins: The Dioscuri in an Early Christian Context
- Bundrick. Altars, Astragaloi, Achilles: Picturing Divination on Athenian Vases
- Varner. Incarnating the Aurea Aetas: Theomorphic Rhetoric and the Portraits of Nero
- Lott. No More Than One Candle, Torch, or Wreath: Private Citizens and the Commemoration of L. Caesar at Pisa
- Marshall. The Cadence of the Language of Magic in Greek Curse Tablets and First Corinthians
- Köster. Sacred Objects, Material Value, and Invective in Cicero's Verrines II 4
- Bang et al. Local Production and Domestic Ritual Useof Small Rectangular Incense Altars: A Petrographic Provenience Analysis and Examination of Craftsmanship of the Tell Halif Incense Altars
- Darby. Judean Pillar Figurines and the Making of Female Piety in Ancient Israelite Religion
- DiLuzio. Priestesses in Action: Ritual Instruments Employed by Roman Women
- Blevins. Rhetoric, Repetition, and Identity in the Frieze of Sacred Objects on the Temple of Divus Vespasian and Divus Titus
- Moore. Channeling Identity: The Fountain of Glauke in Corinth and Jacob's Well in John 4
- Nutzman. "In This Holy Place": Incubation at Hot Springs in Roman and Late Antique Palestine
- Urquhart. Graves, Gods, and Extratextual Ritual in Archaic Colonial Sicily
- Subject Index
- Ancient Sources Index
