Recent Study of Greek Religion in the Archaic through Hellenistic Periods
This article reviews recent literature in the field of Greek religion from approximately 800 to 150 bce. It notes the long-standing connections between the study of Greek religion and the religions of the Near East, sets forth several common features of these religions, and tells how the study of Gr...
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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Sage
2013
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Currents in biblical research
Year: 2013, Volume: 11, Issue: 3, Pages: 388-427 |
| Further subjects: | B
Archaic
B Transmission B Orphism B Magic B Ritual B sacred laws B Classical B Sacrifice B Oracles B Hellenistic |
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| Summary: | This article reviews recent literature in the field of Greek religion from approximately 800 to 150 bce. It notes the long-standing connections between the study of Greek religion and the religions of the Near East, sets forth several common features of these religions, and tells how the study of Greek religion came to embody the ideas of Robertson Smith, among others, and how three themes, the centrality of ritual, of animal sacrifice, and of the religion of the polis came to dominate the field in the last half-century. In the last twenty years, some scholars have questioned these dominant themes. This article concludes by describing the relation between Greek and Near Eastern religion today, and by offering two examples of unstudied parallels between the two fields. |
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| ISSN: | 1745-5200 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Currents in biblical research
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1177/1476993X12461203 |