The Religion of the Nabataeans: A Conspectus by Healey, J. F.

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The Religion of the Nabataeans: A Conspectus by Healey, J. F.

The Religion of the Nabataeans: A Conspectus

$191.00
The Religion of the Nabataeans: A Conspectus by Healey, J. F.

The Religion of the Nabataeans: A Conspectus

$191.00
Format: Hardcover
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The history of the Nabataean Kingdom of Hellenistic-Roman times, centred on Petra, is now well known, but until the publication of this book, no monograph has been devoted to Nabataean religion, known to us principally from inscriptions in Nabataean Aramaic, iconography, archaeology and Greek literary texts.
After a critical survey of the sources, the author analyses systematically the information on the individual gods worshipped by the Nabataeans, including a detailed illustrated account of temples and iconography. A further major section discusses religious themes: aniconism, henotheism, death-cult and the divinisation of kings. In a final chapter, Nabataean religion is considered in relation to Judaism, Christianity and Islam.
The book will be of particular interest to historians of religion in the Graeco-Roman Near East and to Semitic epigraphists.

Author: J. F. Healey
ISBN-10: 9004107541
ISBN-13: 9789004107540
Publisher: Brill
Language: English
Published: 05/10/2001
Pages: 260
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 1.40lbs
Size: 9.78h x 6.48w x 0.69d
By J. F. Healey
By J. F. Healey
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John F. Healey, Ph.D. (1977), SOAS, University of London, is Professor of Semitic Studies at the University of Manchester. He has published extensively on Ugaritic and Aramaic Studies. His publications include The Nabataean Tomb Inscriptions of Mada'in Salih (Oxford, 1993) and, with H. J. W. Drijvers, The Old Syriac Inscriptions of Edessa and Osrhoene (Leiden, 1999).

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