Olyan Saul M.Bodel John P. - Household and family religion in antiquity: contextual and comparative perspectives

Household and Family Religion in Antiquity

The Ancient World: Comparative Histories

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Household and family religion in antiquity : contextual and comparative perspectives / edited by John Bodel and Saul M. Olyan.
p. cm. (Ancient worldcomparative histories)
Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN 978-1-4051-7579-1 (hardcover : alk. paper) ISBN 978-1-118-25533-9
(pbk. : alk. paper) 1. FamilyReligious life. 2. Religions. I. Bodel, John P., 1957II. Olyan, Saul M.
BL625.6.H68 2008
2042.4109014dc22

2007043652

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Notes on Contributors

Susan Ackerman is the Preston H. Kelsey Professor of Religion and Professor of Womens and Gender Studies at Dartmouth College. She is the author of Under Every Green Tree: Popular Religion in Sixth-Century Judah (1992); Warrior, Dancer, Seductress, Queen: Women in Judges and Biblical Israel (1998); and When Heroes Love: The Ambiguity of Eros in the Stories of Gilgamesh and David (2005).

Rainer Albertz is Professor of Old Testament in the Protestant Theological Faculty of the University of Mnster, Germany. He received his Dr theol and venia legendi (Habilitation) from the Heidelberg University. His primary area of research is the social and religious history of ancient Israel including the history of its literature. His most recent books are Elia, ein feuriger Diener Gottes (2006); Geschichte und Theologie: Studien zur Exegese des Alten Testaments und zur Religionsgeschichte Israels (Berlin 2003); Israel in Exile: The History and Literature of the Sixth Century BCE (2003; German 2001).

John Bodel is W. Duncan MacMillan II Professor of Classics and Professor of History at Brown University. His main areas of interest in research are the history, literature, archaeology, and epigraphy of the Roman empire. His most recent books are Dediche sacre nel mondo greco-romano: Diffusione, funzioni, tipologie (co-edited with Mika Kajava, 2009), Epigraphic Evidence: Ancient History from Inscriptions (2001) and (with Stephen Tracy) Greek and Latin Inscriptions in the USA: A Checklist (1997).

Deborah Boedeker is Professor Emerita of Classics at Brown University. From 1992 to 2000, she co-directed Harvards Center for Hellenic Studies. Her books include Aphrodites Entry into Greek Epic (1974) and Descent from Heaven: Images of Dew in Greek Poetry and Religion (1984), as well as a number of edited and co-edited volumes, including Herodotus and the Invention of History (1987); Democracy, Empire, and the Arts in Fifth-Century Athens (1998); and The New Simonides: Contexts of Praise and Desire (2001). She is currently working on traditions about the Persian War, Greek poetry and historiography, and the new Sappho fragments and their transmission.

Christopher A. Faraone is the Frank C. and Gertrude M. Springer Professor of Classics and Humanities at The University of Chicago. He is co-editor (with D. Dodd) of Initiation in Ancient Greek Rituals and Narratives: New Critical Perspectives (2003) and (with L. McClure) of Prostitutes and Courtesans in the Ancient World (2005), and author of Talismans and Trojan Horses: Guardian Statues in Ancient Greek Myth and Ritual (1992) and Ancient Greek Love Magic (1999). His The Stanzaic Architecture of Ancient Greek Elegiac Poetry will appear in 2008.

Daniel E. Fleming is Professor of Assyriology and Hebrew Bible at New York University. His research spans the ancient Near East from Mesopotamia across Syria to Israel, with focus on social and cultural patterns. His most recent books are Democracys Ancient Ancestors: Mari and Early Collective Governance (2004), and Time at Emar: The Cultic Calendar and the Rituals from the Diviners Archive (2000).

Barbara S. Lesko s Egyptological career spans almost fifty years, beginning with degrees from the University of Chicagos Oriental Institute and employment at the University of California, Berkeley and later at Brown University where she was Administrative Research Assistant in the Department of Egyptology from 1982 until her retirement in 2005. Mrs Lesko is the author and co-author of several books, such as The Great Goddesses of Egypt (1999) and was collaborating editor, with her husband, of A Dictionary of Late Egyptian , 2 vols. (2004). She has contributed numerous articles to anthologies, encyclopedias, and journals, and specializes in lexicography and womens studies.