Household and family religion in antiquity: contextual and comparative perspectives

List of Figures vii    Notes on Contributors x     Series Editor\'s Preface xiii     Acknowledgments xv     Map xvi     1 Introduction 1  John Bodel and Saul M. Olyan     2 Theorizing the Religion of Ancient Households and Families 5  Stanley K. Stowers     3 Family Religion in Second Millennium West Asia (Mesopotamia, Emar, Nuzi) 20  Karel van der Toorn     4 The Integration of Household and Community Religion in Ancient Syria 37  Daniel E. Fleming     5 Family, Household, and Local Religion at Late Bronze Age Ugarit 60  Theodore J. Lewis     6 Family Religion in Ancient Israel and its Surroundings 89  Rainer Albertz     7 Family Religion in Israel and the Wider Levant of the First Millennium bce 113  Saul M. Olyan     8 Household Religion, Family Religion, and Women\'s Religion in Ancient Israel 127  Susan Ackerman     9 Ashdod and the Material Remains of Domestic Cults in the Philistine Coastal Plain 159  Rudiger Schmitt     10 Household Religion in Ancient Egypt 171  Robert K. Ritner     11 Household and Domestic Religion in Ancient Egypt 197  Barbara S. Lesko     12 Household Religion in Ancient Greece 210  Christopher A. Faraone     13 Family Matters: Domestic Religion in Classical Greece 229  Deborah Boedeker     14 Cicero\'s Minerva, Penates, and the Mother of the Lares: An Outline of Roman Domestic Religion 248  John Bodel     15 Comparative Perspectives 276  John Bodel and Saul M. Olyan     Bibliography 283     Index 314