Contents

pp.：  5 – 6

Acknowledgements

pp.：  7 – 8

List of contributors

pp.：  9 – 10

Abbreviations

pp.：  11 – 14

List of plates

pp.：  15 – 20

Ted Kaizer Introduction

pp.：  21 – 56

Milette Gaifman The aniconic image of the Roman Near East

pp.：  57 – 92

Julien Aliquot Sanctuaries and villages on Mt Hermon during the Roman period

pp.：  93 – 116

Arthur Segal Religious architecture in the Roman Near East: temples of the basalt lands (Trachon and Hauran)

pp.：  117 – 152

Achim Lichtenberger Artemis and Zeus Olympios in Roman Gerasa and Seleucid religious policy

pp.：  153 – 174

Jonathan Kirkpatrick How to be a bad Samaritan: the local cult of Mt Gerizim

pp.：  175 – 198

Ted Kaizer Man and god at Palmyra: sacrifice, lectisternia and banquets

pp.：  199 – 212

Peter W. Haider Tradition and change in the beliefs at Assur, Nineveh and Nisibis between 300 BC and AD 300

pp.：  213 – 228

Lucinda Dirven Aspects of Hatrene religion: a note on the statues of kings and nobles from Hatra

pp.：  229 – 266

Jürgen Tubach Ephraem Syrus and the solar cult

pp.：  267 – 282

Bibliography

pp.：  283 – 332

Indices

pp.：  333 – 332

Index locorum

pp.：  333 – 340

Index of geographical and place names

pp.：  341 – 344

Index of divine and mythological names

pp.：  345 – 347

Index of personal names

pp.：  348 – 349

General index

pp.：  350 – 352

Plates

pp.：  353 – 416