Household and family religion in antiquity / 
edited by John Bodel and Saul M. Olyan. 
 - Malden, MA ;  Oxford :  Blackwell Pub. Ltd,  2008. 
 - xii, 324 p. :  ill., maps, plans ;  26 cm. 
 - Ancient world--comparative histories .
 - Ancient world--comparative histories. .
<br/><br/>Includes bibliographical references (p. [283]-313) and index. 
<br/><br/>Introduction / John Bodel & Saul M. Olyan -- Theorizing the religion of ancient households and families / Stanley K. Stowers -- Family religion in second millennium West Asia (Mesopotamia, Emar, Nuzi) / Karel van der Toorn -- The integration of household and community religion in ancient Syria / Daniel E. Fleming -- Family, household, and local religion at late bronze age ugarit / Theodore J. Lewis -- Family religion in ancient Irael and its surroundings / Rainer Albertz -- Family religion in Israel and the wider Levant of the first millennium BCE / Saul M. Olyan -- Household religion, family religion, and women's religion in ancient Israel / Susan Ackerman -- Ashdod and the material remains of domestic cults in the Philistine Coastal Plain / R'diger Schmitt -- Household religion in ancient Egypt / Robert K. Ritner -- Household and domestic religion in ancient Egypt / Barbara S. Lesko -- Household religion in ancient Greece / Christopher A. Faraone -- Family matters : domestic religion in classical Greece / Deborah Boedeker -- Cicero's Minerva, Penates, and the mother of the Lares : an outline of -- Roman domestic religion / John Bodel -- Comparative perspectives / John Bodel & Saul M. Olyan. 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>9781405175791 (hardcover : alk. paper) 1405175796 (hardcover : alk. paper) 
<br/><br/><label>LCCN: </label>2007043652 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Families--Religious life.<br/>Religions.<br/>Families.
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Geographic Terms: </label><br/>Middellandse-Zeegebied.<br/>Midden-Oosten.
<br/><br/><label>LC Class. No.: </label>BL 625.6  / .H68 2008