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Travel and Religion in Antiquity considers the importance of issues relating to travel for our understanding of religious and cultural life among Jews, Christians, and others in the ancient world, ...
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Travel and Religion in Antiquity considers the importance of issues relating to travel for our understanding of religious and cultural life among Jews, Christians, and others in the ancient world, particularly during the Hellenistic and Roman eras. The volume is organized around five overlapping areas where religion and travel intersect: travel related to honouring deities, including travel to festivals, oracles, and healing sanctuaries; travel to communicate the efficacy of a god or the superiority of a way of life, including the diffusion of cults or movements; travel to explore and encounter foreign peoples or cultures, including descriptions of these cultures in ancient ethnographic materials; migration; and travel to engage in an occupation or vocation.
With interdisciplinary contributions that cover a range of literary, epigraphic, and archeological materials, the volume sheds light on the importance of movement in connection with religious life among Greeks, Romans, Nabateans, and others, including Judeans and followers of Jesus.

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Price: $89.99
Pages: 306
Publisher: Wilfrid Laurier University Press
Imprint: Wilfrid Laurier University Press
Series: Studies in Christianity and Judaism
Publication Date: 15 March 2011
Trim Size: 9.00 X 6.00 in
ISBN: 9781554582228
Format: Hardcover
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The scholarship in these essays is excellent. It is evident that all of the authors know their fields well; they are well acquainted with the relevant primary and secondary literature as well as with the relevant methodologies. The manuscript as such makes an important contribution to the field. Harland's introductory essay does a superb job of placing the volume in the broader context of the field as a whole, and of showing that while the study of travel in the ancient world has been undertaken by others, this volume is likely the first to highlight the intersection of religion and travel. The volume will make a very important contribution both to the discussion of ancient travel and, even more perhaps, to the field of religion in antiquity.
Philip A. Harland is an associate professor in humanities and ancient history at York University. His recent books on social and religious life in the Greco-Roman world include Associations, Synagogues, and Congregations (2003) and Dynamics of Identity in the World of the Early Christians (2009). He also runs a group of websites, a podcast, and a blog on religions of the ancient Mediterranean at philipharland.com.

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
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