{"id":3584,"date":"2019-05-06T12:01:36","date_gmt":"2019-05-06T16:01:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.philipharland.com\/Blog\/?page_id=3584"},"modified":"2019-05-19T20:31:46","modified_gmt":"2019-05-20T00:31:46","slug":"travel-and-religion-in-antiquity","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.philipharland.com\/Blog\/travel-and-religion-in-antiquity\/","title":{"rendered":"Travel and Religion in Antiquity<\/i> (book)"},"content":{"rendered":"

Philip A. Harland, ed., Travel and Religion in Antiquity<\/i>. Studies in Christianity and Judaism, vol. 21.\u00a0 \"\"Wilfrid Laurier University Press, 2011.<\/p>\n

“Harland has assembled a rich, lucid, and thought-provoking book of essays\u2026 Travel and Religion in Antiquity<\/em> is more than an essential resource for graduate and good undergraduate libraries.”\u00a0 David Frankfurter, Boston University, on H-Judaic<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Introduction<\/i><\/p>\n

1. Pausing at the Intersection of Religion and Travel<\/a> (Philip A. Harland — PDF available)<\/p>\n

Honouring the Gods<\/i><\/p>\n

2. Religion on the Road in Ancient Greece and Rome (Steven Muir)
\n3. Going Up to Jerusalem: Pilgrimage and the Historical Jesus (Susan Haber)
\n4. Pilgrimage, Place, and Meaning-Making by Jews in Greco-Roman Egypt (Wayne O. McCready)
\n5. Have Horn, Will Travel: The Journeys of Mesopotamian Deities (Karlj\u00fcrgen G. Feuerherm)<\/p>\n

Promoting a Deity or Way of Life<\/i><\/p>\n

6. The Divine Wanderer: Travel and Divinization in Late Antiquity<\/a> (Ian W. Scott — PDF available)
\n7. Journeys\u00a0in Pursuit of Divine Wisdom: Stories of Thessalos and Other Seekers<\/a> (Philip A. Harland — PDF available)
\n8 \u201cDanger in the Wilderness, Danger at Sea\u201d: Paul and Perils of Travel<\/a> (Ryan Schellenberg)<\/p>\n

Encountering Foreign Cultures<\/i><\/p>\n

9. Roman Translation: Tacitus and Ethnographic Interpretation<\/a> (James Rives — PDF available)<\/p>\n

Migrating<\/i><\/p>\n

10. Migration and the Emergence of Greco-Roman Diaspora Judaism (Jack N. Lightstone)
\n<\/i><\/p>\n

Making a Living<\/i><\/p>\n

11. Religion and the Nomadic Lifestyle: The Nabateans<\/a> (Michele Murray — PDF available)<\/p>\n

12. Christians on the Move in Late Antique Oxyrhynchus<\/a> (Lincoln Blumell — PDF available)<\/p>\n

Works Cited<\/a>\u00a0(PDF available)<\/p>\n

Bibliographies Online<\/strong><\/p>\n

\u201cTravel and Religion in Antiquity: A Preliminary Classified Bibliography<\/a>.\u201d (Prepared by Angela Brkich, Sacha Mathew, Daniel Bernard, and Philip Harland — June 10, 2005 edition)<\/p>\n

Includes sections on:<\/p>\n

    \n
  1. Realities of Travel in the Ancient Mediterranean (including general works and works on dangers of travel)<\/li>\n
  2. Religions of the Ancient Mediterranean and Travel (including pilgrimage, itinerant religious practitioners, diffusion of religions)<\/li>\n
  3. Ancient Ethnography, Geography, and Travelogues<\/li>\n
  4. Immigrants and Occupational Travelers (including Nomads)<\/li>\n
  5. Judaism, the Near East, and Travel<\/li>\n
  6. Early Christianity and Travel (including Jesus and the Gospels, Paul and Acts, other early Christian literature, geography of heresies)<\/li>\n
  7. Interdisciplinary and Cross-Cultural Methods and Theory (including geography of religion and the cultural history of travel)<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

    Philip A. Harland, ed., Travel and Religion in Antiquity. Studies in Christianity and Judaism, vol. 21.\u00a0 Wilfrid Laurier University Press, 2011. “Harland has assembled a rich, lucid, and thought-provoking book of essays\u2026 Travel and Religion in Antiquity is more than an essential resource for graduate and good undergraduate libraries.”\u00a0 David Frankfurter, Boston University, on H-Judaic. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-3584","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.philipharland.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3584","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.philipharland.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.philipharland.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.philipharland.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.philipharland.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3584"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.philipharland.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3584\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.philipharland.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3584"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}