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Title Travel and religion in antiquity / Philip A. Harland, editor
Published Waterloo, Ont. : Wilfrid Laurier University Press, ©2011 (Saint-Lazare, Quebec : Canadian Electronic Library, 2011)

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Description 1 online resource (xii, 289 pages) : illustrations, map, digital file
Series Studies in Christianity and Judaism/Études sur le christianisme et le judaisme ; 21
Studies in Christianity and Judaism ; 21
Contents Pausing at the intersection of religion and travel / Philip A. Harland -- Religion on the road in Ancient Greece and Rome / Steven Muir -- Going up to Jerusalem : pilgrimage, purity, the historical Jesus / Susan Haber -- Pilgrimage, place, and meaning making by Jews in Greco-Roman Egypt / Wayne O. McCready -- Have horn, will travel : the journeys of Mesopotamian deities / Karljürgen G. Feuerherm -- The divine wanderer : travel and divination in late antiquity / Ian W. Scott -- Journeys in pursuit of divine wisdom : Thessalos and other seekers / Philip A. Harland -- "Danger in the wilderness, danger at sea" : Paul and the perils of travel / Ryan S. Schellenberg -- Roman translation : Tacitus and ethnographic interpretation / James B. Rives -- Migration and the emergence of Greco-Roman diaspora Judaism / Jack N. Lightstone -- Religion and the nomadic lifestyle : the Nabateans / Michele Murray -- Christians on the move in late antique Oxyrhynchus / Lincoln H. Blumell. Pausing at the intersection of religion and travel / Philip A. Harland -- Religion on the road to ancient Greece and Rome / Steven Muir -- Going up to Jerusalem : pilgrimage, purity, the historical Jesus / Susan Haber -- Pilgrimage, place, and meaning making by Jews in Greco-Roman Egypt / Wayne O. McCready -- Have horn, will travel : the journeys of Mesopotamian deities / Karlju·rgen G. Feuerherm -- The divine wanderer : travel and divinization of late antiquity / Ian W. Scott -- Journeys in pursuit of divine wisdom : Thessalos and other seekers / Philip A. Harland -- 'Danger in the wilderness, danger at sea' : Paul and the perils of travel / Ryan S. Schellenberg -- Roman translation : Tacitus and ethnographic interpretation / James B. Rives -- Migration and the emergence of Greco-Roman diaspora Judaism / Jack N. Lightstone -- Religion and nomadic lifestyle : the Nabateans / Michele Murray -- Christians on the move in late antique Oxyrhynchus / Lincoln H. Blumell
Summary Travel and Religion in Antiquity considers the importance of issues relating to travel for our understanding of religious and cultural life among Jews, Christians, and others in the ancient world, particularly during the Hellenistic and Roman eras. The volume is organized around five overlapping areas where religion and travel intersect: travel related to honouring deities, including travel to festivals, oracles, and healing sanctuaries; travel to communicate the efficacy of a god or the superiority of a way of life, including the diffusion of cults or movements; travel to explore and encounter foreign peoples or cultures, including descriptions of these cultures in ancient ethnographic materials; migration; and travel to engage in an occupation or vocation. With interdisciplinary contributions that cover a range of literary, epigraphic, and archeological materials, the volume sheds light on the importance of movement in connection with religious life among Greeks, Romans, Nabateans, and others, including Judeans and followers of Jesus
Analysis Travel
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references
Subject Travel -- Religious aspects -- History -- To 1500
Jewish pilgrims and pilgrimages -- Mediterranean Region -- History -- To 1500
Travel -- Religious aspects -- Christianity -- History -- To 1500
Travel -- Religious aspects -- Judaism -- History -- To 1500
Christian pilgrims and pilgrimages -- Mediterranean Region -- History -- To 1500
RELIGION -- Reference.
Antiquities
Christian pilgrims and pilgrimages
Jewish pilgrims and pilgrimages
Travel -- Religious aspects
Travel -- Religious aspects -- Christianity
Travel -- Religious aspects -- Judaism
Religion.
Reise.
Mobilität.
Wallfahrt.
Kulturkontakt.
Kristna pilgrimer och pilgrimsfärder -- historia -- Medelhavsländerna -- före 1500.
Judiska pilgrimer och pilgrimsfärder -- historia -- Medelhavsländerna -- före 1500.
Resor -- religiösa aspekter -- kristendom -- historia -- Medelhavsländerna -- före 1500.
Resor -- religiösa aspekter -- judendom -- historia -- Medelhavsländerna -- före 1500.
SUBJECT Greece -- Antiquities. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85057037
Mediterranean Region -- Antiquities
Greece -- Religious life and customs
Mediterranean Region -- Religious life and customs
Subject Greece
Mediterranean Region
Mittelmeerraum.
Medelhavsländerna -- religiöst liv -- historia -- före 1500.
Genre/Form Electronic books
History
Form Electronic book
Author Harland, Philip A. (Philip Alan), 1969-
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