Philip A. Harland, ed., Travel and Religion in Antiquity. Studies in Christianity and Judaism, vol. 21. Wilfrid Laurier University Press, 2011.
“Harland has assembled a rich, lucid, and thought-provoking book of essays… Travel and Religion in Antiquity is more than an essential resource for graduate and good undergraduate libraries.” David Frankfurter, Boston University, on H-Judaic.
Introduction
1. Pausing at the Intersection of Religion and Travel (Philip A. Harland — PDF available)
Honouring the Gods
2. Religion on the Road in Ancient Greece and Rome (Steven Muir)
3. Going Up to Jerusalem: Pilgrimage and the Historical Jesus (Susan Haber)
4. Pilgrimage, Place, and Meaning-Making by Jews in Greco-Roman Egypt (Wayne O. McCready)
5. Have Horn, Will Travel: The Journeys of Mesopotamian Deities (Karljürgen G. Feuerherm)
Promoting a Deity or Way of Life
6. The Divine Wanderer: Travel and Divinization in Late Antiquity (Ian W. Scott — PDF available)
7. Journeys in Pursuit of Divine Wisdom: Stories of Thessalos and Other Seekers (Philip A. Harland — PDF available)
8 “Danger in the Wilderness, Danger at Sea”: Paul and Perils of Travel (Ryan Schellenberg)
Encountering Foreign Cultures
9. Roman Translation: Tacitus and Ethnographic Interpretation (James Rives — PDF available)
Migrating
10. Migration and the Emergence of Greco-Roman Diaspora Judaism (Jack N. Lightstone)
Making a Living
11. Religion and the Nomadic Lifestyle: The Nabateans (Michele Murray — PDF available)
12. Christians on the Move in Late Antique Oxyrhynchus (Lincoln Blumell — PDF available)
Works Cited (PDF available)
Bibliographies Online
“Travel and Religion in Antiquity: A Preliminary Classified Bibliography.” (Prepared by Angela Brkich, Sacha Mathew, Daniel Bernard, and Philip Harland — June 10, 2005 edition)
Includes sections on:
- Realities of Travel in the Ancient Mediterranean (including general works and works on dangers of travel)
- Religions of the Ancient Mediterranean and Travel (including pilgrimage, itinerant religious practitioners, diffusion of religions)
- Ancient Ethnography, Geography, and Travelogues
- Immigrants and Occupational Travelers (including Nomads)
- Judaism, the Near East, and Travel
- Early Christianity and Travel (including Jesus and the Gospels, Paul and Acts, other early Christian literature, geography of heresies)
- Interdisciplinary and Cross-Cultural Methods and Theory (including geography of religion and the cultural history of travel)