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| Material Type: | Internet resource |
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| Document Type: | Book, Internet Resource |
| All Authors / Contributors: |
David Frankfurter |
| ISBN: | 0691026858 9780691026855 0691070547 9780691070544 |
| OCLC Number: | 37975590 |
| Awards: | Winner of American Academy of Religion Award for Excellence in the Study of Religion in Historical Studies 1999 |
| Description: | xvi, 314 pages : illustrations, map ; 24 cm |
| 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. |
| Series Title: | Mythos (Princeton, N.J.) |
| Responsibility: | David Frankfurter. |
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"Winner of the 1999 Award for Excellence in the Study of Religion, Historical Studies category, of the American Academy of Religion" "Frankfurter presents a new and convincing analysis of the history of religious change in Roman and early Byzantine Egypt. . . . This new synthesis of the available evidence constitutes a real breakthrough in our understanding of the religious changes in late ancient Egypt attending its Christianization."---Birger A. Pearson, Religious Studies Review "An exemplary work, engagingly written, which will be of interest not only to students of late antiquity, early Christianity, and Egypt but to anyone concerned with issues of religious change and practice."---Jonathan P. Berkey, American Historical Review "Where it has been usual to focus on the decay of grand temple religion, Frankfurter argues that this is only one side of the matter. There remained a lively practice of popular and local religion. . . . The book overflows with ideas and insights."---Richard Gordon, Times Literary Supplement "Stimulating in the very best sense of that word: its thickly packed details and formulations reward readers not only with the insights of its author, but with material that often prompts them to travel down new paths of though themselves."---Sarah Iles Johnston, Journal of Biblical Literature "This ambitious book rewards the specialist and nonspecialist alike with a rich overview of Egyptian religion in late antiquity within a comparative religion framework. . . . Frankfurter's refreshing synthesis of religion and magic both rewards and illumines the reader. His dexterity with such a diversity of visual, material, and textual evidence is a hallmark of this erudite book. . . . Generously illustrated and clearly organized, this thought provoking study has set a benchmark for future work on religion in the ancient Mediterranean."---Georgia Frank, Journal of the American Academy of Religion "This ambitious book rewards the specialist and nonspecialist alike with a rich overview of Egyptian religion in late antiquity within a comparative religion framework. . . . Frankfurter's refreshing synthesis of religion and magic both rewards and illumines the reader. His dexterity with such a diversity of visual, material, and textual evidence is a hallmark of this erudite book. . . . Generously illustrated and clearly organized, this thought-provoking study has set a benchmark for future work on religion in the ancient Mediterranean."---Georgia Frank, Journal of the American Academy of Religion Read more...
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- Egypt -- Religion -- 332 B.C.-640 A.D.
- Christianity and other religions -- Egyptian.
- Christianisme -- Relations -- Religion égyptienne.
- Égypte -- Religion -- 332 av. J.-C.-640.
- 11.11 Egyptian religion.
- Religion.
- Christianity.
- Egyptians -- Religion.
- Interfaith relations.
- Egypt.
- Egyptische godsdienst.
- Romeinse oudheid.
- Romans -- Egypt.
- Egypt -- Religion -- 332 B.C.-640 A.D. -- Roman influences.
- Egypte -- Religion -- 332 av. J.-C.-640.
- Christianisme -- Religion égyptienne.
- Égypte -- Religion.
- Égypte -- 332 av. J.-C.-640 (période gréco-romaine)
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