Fasti Sacerdotum: A Prosopography of Pagan, Jewish, and Christian Religious Officials in the City of Rome, 300 BC to AD 499
de David Richardson, Jörg Rüpke
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Oxford University Press, 2009. Hardcover. Like new/Very good. Like new oversized tightly bound hardcover with dark blue cloth on boards and gilt lettering to spine. Very good dust jacket with scuffing from shelf wear. 4to. (2.5 x 7.7 x 9.7 inches) Clean text free of marks or underlining. Includes bibliographies, a general bibliography, index of names and an index of sources. 1,107 pp.
Fast shipping in a secure book box mailer with tracking. This magisterial compilation personalizes and historicizes the history of religion in the city of Rome. After introductory essays on the documentary sources for the various Greek, Roman, Oriental, Jewish, and Christian cults in question, there are yearly lists of religious office-holders of various kinds, followed by 4,000 biographies of individuals who fulfilled ritual, organizational, or doctrinal roles. Concluding chapters discuss important aspects of Roman religion and its relationship with the state. The data assembled here will open up many new perspectives: on the social place of religion and certain cults, on the interplay between different religious groups, and on the organizational history of individual cults. The volume as a whole signifies a major advance in our understanding of ancient religions.
Fast shipping in a secure book box mailer with tracking. This magisterial compilation personalizes and historicizes the history of religion in the city of Rome. After introductory essays on the documentary sources for the various Greek, Roman, Oriental, Jewish, and Christian cults in question, there are yearly lists of religious office-holders of various kinds, followed by 4,000 biographies of individuals who fulfilled ritual, organizational, or doctrinal roles. Concluding chapters discuss important aspects of Roman religion and its relationship with the state. The data assembled here will open up many new perspectives: on the social place of religion and certain cults, on the interplay between different religious groups, and on the organizational history of individual cults. The volume as a whole signifies a major advance in our understanding of ancient religions.
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- The Anthropologists Closet (US)
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- Título
- Fasti Sacerdotum: A Prosopography of Pagan, Jewish, and Christian Religious Officials in the City of Rome, 300 BC to AD 499
- Autor
- David Richardson, Jörg Rüpke
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- Tapa dura
- Estado del libro
- Nuevo
- Estado de la sobrecubierta
- Very good
- Cantidad disponible
- 1
- ISBN 10
- 0199291136
- ISBN 13
- 9780199291137
- Editorial
- Oxford University Press
- Lugar de publicación
- Oxford
- Fecha de publicación
- 2009
- Palabras clave
- Classical literature, religion, Christianity, Judaism, Greek & Roman, philosophy,
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