The variety of local religious life in the Near East in the Hellenistic and Roman periods  / 
edited by Ted Kaizer 
 - Leiden ; Boston :   E. J. Brill,   2008 
 - xx, 329 p., [61] p. of plates :   ill. ;  25 cm.  ; 
 - Religions in the Graeco-Roman world,   164 .
<br/><br/>Introduction / Ted Kaizer -- The aniconic image of the Roman Near East / Milette Gaifman -- Sanctuaries and villages on Mt. Hermon during the Roman period / Julien Aliquot -- Religious architecture in the Roman Near East : temples of the basalt lands (Trachon and Hauran) / Arthur Segal -- Artemis and Zeus Olympios in Roman Gerasa and seleucid religious policy / Achim Lichtenberger -- How to be a bad Samaritan : the local cult of Mt. Gerizim / Jonathan Kirkpatrick -- Man and god at Palmyra : sacrifice, lectisternia and banquets / Ted Kaizer -- Tradition and change in the beliefs at Assur, Nineveh and Nisibis between 300 BC and AD 300 / Peter W. Haider -- Aspects of Hatrene religion : a note on the statues of kings and nobles from Hatra / Lucinda Dirven -- Ephraem Syrus and the solar cult / Jürgen Tubach. 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>9789047433538904743353X 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Middle East--Religious life and customs.
<br/><br/><label>LC Class. No.: </label>BL1060   / .V37 2008