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Title Travel and religion in antiquity / Philip A. Harland, editor.

Publication Info. Waterloo, Ont. : Wilfrid Laurier University Press, [2011]
Saint-Lazare, Quebec : Canadian Electronic Library, 2011.
©2011

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Description 1 online resource (xii, 289 pages) : illustrations, map, digital file.
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Series Studies in Christianity and Judaism/Études sur le christianisme et le judaisme ; 21
Studies in Christianity and Judaism ; 21.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references.
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.
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Subject Travel -- Religious aspects -- History -- To 1500.
Travel -- Religious aspects.
History.
Chronological Term To 1500
Subject Jewish pilgrims and pilgrimages -- Mediterranean Region -- History -- To 1500.
Jewish pilgrims and pilgrimages.
Mediterranean Region.
Travel -- Religious aspects -- Christianity -- History -- To 1500.
Travel -- Religious aspects -- Christianity.
Travel -- Religious aspects -- Judaism -- History -- To 1500.
Travel -- Religious aspects -- Judaism.
Christian pilgrims and pilgrimages -- Mediterranean Region -- History -- To 1500.
Christian pilgrims and pilgrimages.
Greece -- Antiquities.
Greece.
Antiquities.
Mediterranean Region -- Antiquities.
Greece -- Religious life and customs.
Mediterranean Region -- Religious life and customs.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Added Author Harland, Philip A.
Other Form: Print version: 9781554582228
ISBN 9781554582402 (electronic book)
1554582407 (electronic book)
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9781282166912
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9781554583447
1554582229 (print)
9781554582228 (print)
9781554582228 (bound)