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Essays on religion and the ancient world
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Harvard University Press
Publication Date
1972
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English
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Vol. I: Eunuchs in ancient religion
The Augustan restoration
Diatribe form in the Hermetica
Studies in the Graeco-Roman beliefs of the Empire
Early Gentile Christianity and its Hellenistic background
Notes on Ruler-Cult I-IV
Oracles theologiques
Greek novels and Egyptian religions
Greek magical papyri
Iranian influences in Greek thought
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A Diis elects: a chapter in the religious history of the third century
The lizard in magic and religion
Cremation and burial in the Roman Empire
Paul and the Magus
The study of the history of religion
The vocabulary of the New Testament
Seviri and Augustales
A vision of Mandulis Aion
Attic festivals
Magistri and Collegia
The gild of Zeus Hypsisitos
The milieu of Gnosticism
The genius of Mithraism
The question of Jewish mysteries
Conversion and adolescence
A feature of Roman religion
Astrology and cultural history
Orphism or popular philosophy?
Vol. II: Greeks and Magi
Tomb violations and pontifical law
Religious attitudes of the ancient Greeks
Ruler-worship and syncretism
Philo and Hellenistic philosophy
Later Egyptian piety
The cult of heroes
Mana and Roman religion
Sarcophagi and symbolism
Word-coinage in Greek
The emperor's divine Comes
Christianity and classical culture
The problem of Zoroaster
Graeco-Egyptian religious propaganda
Tertullian and the Ahori
Soter and Euergetes
The Roman army and the Roman religious year
Hellenistic mysteries and Christian sacraments
The book of Acts
Deification and Julian
A cult ordinance in verse
Posidonius
Religious symbols and symbolism I
Religious symbols and symbolism II
Religious symbols and symbolism III
Nymphs and Nereids
'Son of God' in Pauline and Hellenistic thought
Gnosticism
Isopoliteia and the Jews
Obiter Dicta
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9780674267251
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