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Title: The Religion of the Nabataeans
Condition: New
Author: J.F. Healey
Publisher: Brill
Format: Leather Bound
EAN: 9789004107540
ISBN-10: 9004107541
Subtitle: A Conspectus
Release Date: 05/10/2001
ISBN: 9789004107540
Item Length: 155mm
Item Height: 235mm
Language: English
Item Width: 20mm
Genre: Philosophy & Spirituality
Item Weight: 636g
Type: Folklore
Description: The history of the Nabataean Kingdom of Hellenistic-Roman times, centred on Petra, is now well known, but until the publication of this book, no monograph has been devoted to Nabataean religion, known to us principally from inscriptions in Nabataean Aramaic, iconography, archaeology and Greek literary texts.
After a critical survey of the sources, the author analyses systematically the information on the individual gods worshipped by the Nabataeans, including a detailed illustrated account of temples and iconography. A further major section discusses religious themes: aniconism, henotheism, death-cult and the divinisation of kings. In a final chapter, Nabataean religion is considered in relation to Judaism, Christianity and Islam.
The book will be of particular interest to historians of religion in the Graeco-Roman Near East and to Semitic epigraphists.
Series: Religions in the Graeco-Roman World
Release Year: 2001
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