Jon Davies charts the significance of death to the emerging religious cults in the pre-Christian and early Christian world. He also draws on the socio..
With an appendix providing a chronology, the Hebrew alphabet, weights, measures and coins, the Jewish calendar and a guide to further reading for eas..
The Sage in Jewish Society of Late Antiquity provides an erudite and stimulating analysis of the role of the sage in late antiquity and sheds new ligh..
Zoroastrianism is of enormous importance in the history of religions. It became the state religion of the three great Iranian empires and influenced o..
Religion in ancient Greece had a strong public character and within this public religion, there were special cults - 'mysteries'. This welcome volume ..
Initiation has often been accepted as a common phenomenon with a coherent meaning in the Greek world, and seen as the key to understanding a wide rang..
Tatian is a significant figure in the early Church, his work both representing and revealing his second century context This study offers a detailed ..
It has often been thought that participation in fertility rituals was women's most importnat religious activity in classical Greece. Matthew Dillon's ..
The first work to bring together the Apologists, Apocryphal Acts and Martyr Acts in a single study, this book uses an interdisciplinary approach to lo..
Based upon a series of detailed case studies of associations such as early synagogues and churches, philosophical schools and pagan mystery cults, thi..
Imagining the Pagan Past explores the pagan stories of Britain’s past. From the Middle Ages to the present, Marion Gibson explores the ways in which B..
What is ancient Greek religion? This book eschews an Athenocentric view of Greek religion, moving away from a false picture of uniformity and addressi..