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Legible Religion : Books, Gods, and Rituals in Roman Culture / Duncan MacRae.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: Cambridge, MA : Harvard University Press, [2016]Copyright date: ©2016Description: 1 online resource (272 p.)Content type:
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ISBN:
  • 9780674969704
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 292.8 23
LOC classification:
  • BL803 .M33 2016eb
Other classification:
  • online - DeGruyter
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Contents:
Frontmatter -- Contents -- Introduction -- Part I. Writing Roman Religion -- 1. Gods and Humans in Rome and Its Empire -- 2. Writing Roman Religion -- 3. Letters of the Republic -- Part II. Comparison -- 4. Rabbis and Romans -- Part III. Reading Roman Religion -- 5. Emperor as Reader -- 6. Paper Pagans -- Conclusion: Beyond Scripture and Literature -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Acknowledgments -- Index
Summary: Scholars have long separated a few privileged “religions of the Book” from faiths lacking sacred texts, including ancient Roman religion. Looking beyond this distinction, Duncan MacRae delves into Roman treatises on the nature of gods and rituals to grapple with a central question: what was the significance of books in a religion without scripture?
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eBook eBook Biblioteca "Angelicum" Pont. Univ. S.Tommaso d'Aquino Nuvola online online - DeGruyter (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Online access Not for loan (Accesso limitato) Accesso per gli utenti autorizzati / Access for authorized users (dgr)9780674969704

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Introduction -- Part I. Writing Roman Religion -- 1. Gods and Humans in Rome and Its Empire -- 2. Writing Roman Religion -- 3. Letters of the Republic -- Part II. Comparison -- 4. Rabbis and Romans -- Part III. Reading Roman Religion -- 5. Emperor as Reader -- 6. Paper Pagans -- Conclusion: Beyond Scripture and Literature -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Acknowledgments -- Index

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Scholars have long separated a few privileged “religions of the Book” from faiths lacking sacred texts, including ancient Roman religion. Looking beyond this distinction, Duncan MacRae delves into Roman treatises on the nature of gods and rituals to grapple with a central question: what was the significance of books in a religion without scripture?

Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.

In English.

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