Syndetics cover image
Image from Syndetics

Gods, objects, and ritual practice / edited by Sandra Blakely.

Contributor(s): Blakely, Sandra, 1959- [editor.]
Material type: TextTextSeries: Studies in ancient Mediterranean religions: no. 1.Publisher: Atlanta, GA : Lockwood Press, 2017Copyright date: ©2017Description: xxi, 347 pages : illustrations ; 23 cmContent type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 1937040798; 9781937040796Subject(s): Mediterranean Region -- Religious life and customs | Material culture -- Religious aspects | Material culture -- Mediterranean Region | Religious articles -- Mediterranean RegionBibliography, Etc. Note: Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
Contents:
Introduction : object, image, and text : materiality and ritual practice in the ancient Mediterranean / Sandra Blakely -- Divine twins or saintly twins : the dioscuri in the early Christian context / Annewies van den Hoek -- Altars, astragaloi, Achilles : picturing divination on Athenian vases / Sheramy D. Bundrick -- Incarnating the Aurea aetas : theomorphic rhetoric and the portraits of Nero / Eric R. Varner -- No more than one candle, torch, or wreath : private citizens and the commemoration of L. Caesar at Pisa / J. Bert Lott -- The cadence of the language of magic in Greek curse tablets and First Corinthians / Jill E. Marshall -- Sacred objects, material value, and invective in Cicero's Verrines II 4 / Isabel Köster -- Local production and domestic ritual use of small rectangular incense altars : a petrographic provenience analysis and examination of craftsmanship of the Tell Halif incense altars / Seung Ho Bang, Oded Borowski, Kook Young Yoon, Yuval Goren -- Judaean pillar figurines and the making of female piety in ancient Israelite religion / Erin Darby -- Priestesses in action : ritual instruments employed by Roman women / Meghan J. DiLuzio -- Rhetoric, repetition, and identity in the frieze of sacred objects on the Temple of Divus Vespasian and Divus Titus / Susan Ludi Blevins -- Channeling identity : the fountain of Glauke in Corinth and Jacob's well in John 4 / Eric Moore -- "In this holy place" : incubation at hot springs in Roman and late antique Palestine / Megan S. Nutzman -- Gods, graves, and extratextual rituals in archaic colonial Sicily / Lela M. Urquhart.

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Introduction : object, image, and text : materiality and ritual practice in the ancient Mediterranean / Sandra Blakely -- Divine twins or saintly twins : the dioscuri in the early Christian context / Annewies van den Hoek -- Altars, astragaloi, Achilles : picturing divination on Athenian vases / Sheramy D. Bundrick -- Incarnating the Aurea aetas : theomorphic rhetoric and the portraits of Nero / Eric R. Varner -- No more than one candle, torch, or wreath : private citizens and the commemoration of L. Caesar at Pisa / J. Bert Lott -- The cadence of the language of magic in Greek curse tablets and First Corinthians / Jill E. Marshall -- Sacred objects, material value, and invective in Cicero's Verrines II 4 / Isabel Köster -- Local production and domestic ritual use of small rectangular incense altars : a petrographic provenience analysis and examination of craftsmanship of the Tell Halif incense altars / Seung Ho Bang, Oded Borowski, Kook Young Yoon, Yuval Goren -- Judaean pillar figurines and the making of female piety in ancient Israelite religion / Erin Darby -- Priestesses in action : ritual instruments employed by Roman women / Meghan J. DiLuzio -- Rhetoric, repetition, and identity in the frieze of sacred objects on the Temple of Divus Vespasian and Divus Titus / Susan Ludi Blevins -- Channeling identity : the fountain of Glauke in Corinth and Jacob's well in John 4 / Eric Moore -- "In this holy place" : incubation at hot springs in Roman and late antique Palestine / Megan S. Nutzman -- Gods, graves, and extratextual rituals in archaic colonial Sicily / Lela M. Urquhart.

The John Bulow Campbell Library promotes intellectual discovery, collects and enables access, and provides information relevant to the curriculum and traditions of the Church and the Seminary.

Powered by Koha