Contextualizing the Sacred in the Hellenistic and Roman Near East

Contextualizing the Sacred in the Hellenistic and Roman Near East Synopsis

The study of religion and religious identities in the Hellenistic and Roman Near East has been a focus within archaeology and ancient history for centuries. Yet the transition between the Hellenistic and Roman period remains difficult to grasp from the archaeological and epigraphic evidence. This volume brings together contributions by leading scholars working on religious identity and religion in the Hellenistic and Roman periods in the Roman Near East. For this volume they have been asked to address a variety of questions concerning religion, religious development, and religious identities from the Hellenistic period to Late Antiquity. The contributions gathered here draw upon a wide range of empirical evidence, from epigraphical material to literary and archaeological sources.