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Religion in Roman Egypt : assimilation and resistance

Title: Religion in Roman Egypt : assimilation and resistance / David Frankfurter.
Author: Frankfurter, David, 1961-
Publication: Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press, ©1998.

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Description

xvi, 314 pages : illustrations, map; 24 cm

Summary

"This exploration of cultural resilience examines the complex fate of classical Egyptian religion during the centuries from the period when Christianity first made its appearance in Egypt to when it became the region's dominant religion (roughly 100 to 600 C.E.). Taking into account the full range of witnesses to continuing native piety - from papyri and saints' lives to archaeology and terra-cotta figurines - and drawing on anthropological studies of folk religion, David Frankfurter argues that the religion of Pharaonic Egypt did not die out as early as has been supposed but was instead relegated from political centers to village and home, where it continued a vigorous existence for centuries."--Jacket.

Series Statement

Mythos : the Princeton /Bollingen series in world mythology

Uniform Title

Mythos (Princeton, N.J.)

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Bibliography (note)

Includes bibliographical references (p. [285]-306) and index.

Contents

Overture: The Armor of Horus -- Religion and Temples -- The Local Scope of Religious Belief -- Mutations of the Egyptian Oracle -- Priest to Magician: Evolving Modes of Religious Authority -- The Scriptorium as Crucible of Religious Change -- Idiom, Ideology, and Iconoclasm: A Prolegomenon to the Conversion of Egypt.

ISBN

0691026858
9780691026855
0691070547
9780691070544

LCCN

97049576

OCLC

ocm37975590
37975590
SCSB-414011

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Princeton University Library