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The Religion of the Nabataeans: A Conspectus

By John F. Healey

Book information

Publisher
Brill Academic Publishers
Year
2001
ISBN
9004107541, 9789004107540
ISSN
0927-7633
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
25 MB (26175557 bytes)
Series
Religions in the Graeco-Roman World 136
Pages
244\262
Topic
Religion
DPI
300
Orientation
portrait
Paginated
yes
Scanned
yes
Time added
2016-03-22 20:33:33
Criticism Interpretation Exegesis Hermeneutics New

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.

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