Table of Contents
Table of Contents for
Travel and Religion in Antiquity, edited by Philip A. Harland
Map: The Ancient Mediterranean
Preface
I. Pausing at the Intersection of Religion and Travel | Philip A. Harland
Honouring the Gods
II. Religion on the Road in Ancient Greece and Rome | Steven Muir
III. Going Up to Jerusalem: Pilgrimage, Purity, the Historical Jesus | Susan Haber
IV. Pilgrimage, Place, and Meaning Making by Jews in Greco-Roman Egypt | Wayne O. McCready
V. Have Horn, Will Travel: The Journeys of Mesopotamian Deities | Karljürgen G. Feuerherm
Promoting a Deity or Way of Life
VI. The Divine Wanderer: Travel and Divinization in Late Antiquity | Ian W. Scott
VII. Journeys in Pursuit of Divine Wisdom: Thessalos and Other Seekers | Philip A. Harland
VIII. “Danger in the wilderness, danger at sea”: Paul and the Perils of Travel | Ryan S. Schellenberg
Encountering Foreign Cultures
IX. Roman Translation: Tacitus and Ethnographic Interpretation | James B. Rives
Migrating
X. Migration and the Emergence of Greco-Roman Diaspora Judaism | Jack N. Lightstone
Making A Living
XI. Religion and the Nomadic Lifestyle: The Nabateans | Michele Murray
XII. Christians on the Move in Late Antique Oxyrhynchus | Lincoln H. Blumell
Works Cited