Encountering Ancient Religions: What is ancient Mediterranean religion? / Fritz Graf
Monotheism and polytheism / Jan Assmann
Cosmology: time and history / John J. Collins
Pollution, sin, atonement, salvation / Harold W. Attridge
Law and ethics / Eckart Otto
Mysteries / Sarah Iles Johnston
Religions in contact / John Scheid
Writing and religion / Mary Beard
Magic / Sarah Iles Johnston.
Histories: Egypt / Jan Assmann and David Frankfurter
Mesopotamia / Paul-Alain Beaulieu
Syria and Canaan / David P. Wright
Anatolia: Hittites / David P. Wright
Iran / William Malandra and Michael Stausberg
Minoan and Mycenaean civilizations / Nanno Marinatos
Etruria / Olivier de Cazanove
Early Christianity / Harold Attridge.
Key Topics: Sacred Times and Spaces
Religious Organizations and Bodies
Sacrifice, Offerings, and Votives
Prayers, Hymns, Incantations, and Curses
Religious Practices of the Indididual and Family
Illnesses and Other Crises
Death, the Afterlife, and Other Last Things
Sin, Pollution, and Purity
Theology, Theodicy, Philosophy
Myth and Sacred Narratives
Sacred Texts and Canonicity
Esotericism and Mysticism.
