The first book to explore the religious dimensions of the family
and the household in ancient Mediterranean and West Asian
antiquity.
* Advances our understanding of household and familial religion,
as opposed to state-sponsored or civic temple cults
* Reconstructs domestic and family religious practices in Egypt,
Greece, Rome, Israel, Mesopotamia, Ugarit, Emar, and Philistia
* Explores many household rituals, such as providing for
ancestral spirits, and petitioning of a household’s patron deities
or of spirits associated with the house itself
* Examines lifecycle rituals – from pregnancy and birth to
maturity, old age, death, and beyond
* Looks at religious practices relating to the household both
within the home itself and other spaces, such as at extramural
tombs and local sanctuaries
Tabella dei contenuti
List of Figures vii
Notes on Contributors x
Series Editor’s Preface xiii
Acknowledgments xv
Map xvi
1 Introduction 1
John Bodel and Saul M. Olyan
2 Theorizing the Religion of Ancient Households and Families
5
Stanley K. Stowers
3 Family Religion in Second Millennium West Asia (Mesopotamia,
Emar, Nuzi) 20
Karel van der Toorn
4 The Integration of Household and Community Religion in Ancient
Syria 37
Daniel E. Fleming
5 Family, Household, and Local Religion at Late Bronze Age
Ugarit 60
Theodore J. Lewis
6 Family Religion in Ancient Israel and its Surroundings
89
Rainer Albertz
7 Family Religion in Israel and the Wider Levant of the First
Millennium bce 113
Saul M. Olyan
8 Household Religion, Family Religion, and Women’s Religion in
Ancient Israel 127
Susan Ackerman
9 Ashdod and the Material Remains of Domestic Cults in the
Philistine Coastal Plain 159
Rüdiger Schmitt
10 Household Religion in Ancient Egypt 171
Robert K. Ritner
11 Household and Domestic Religion in Ancient Egypt 197
Barbara S. Lesko
12 Household Religion in Ancient Greece 210
Christopher A. Faraone
13 Family Matters: Domestic Religion in Classical Greece
229
Deborah Boedeker
14 Cicero’s Minerva, Penates, and the Mother of the
Lares: An Outline of Roman Domestic Religion 248
John Bodel
15 Comparative Perspectives 276
John Bodel and Saul M. Olyan
Bibliography 283
Index 314
Circa l’autore
John Bodel is Professor of Classics and History at Brown
University. He writes about Roman social and cultural history,
Latin epigraphy, and Latin literature of the Empire. His books
include Roman Brick Stamps in the Kelsey Museum (1983),
Graveyards and Groves: A Study of the Lex Lucerina (1994),
Epigraphic Evidence: Ancient History from Inscriptions
(editor, 2001), and Dediche sacre nel mondo greco-romano:
Diffusione, funzioni, tipologie (edited with Mika Kajava,
2008).
Saul M. Olyan is Samuel Ungerleider Jr. Professor of
Judaic Studies and Professor of Religious Studies, Brown
University. He is the author of Asherah and the Cult of Yahweh
in Israel (1988), A Thousand Thousands Served Him: Exegesis
and the Naming of Angels in Ancient Judaism (1993), Rites
and Rank: Hierarchy in Biblical Representations of Cult (2000),
Biblical Mourning: Ritual and Social Dimensions (2004), and
Disability in the Hebrew Bible: Interpreting Mental and Physical
Differences (2008).
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