In the French Revolution, revolutionary legislators faced the problem of how to relate to the Catholic Church, to which the vast majority of citizens belonged. Inheriting theological, legal, and Enlightenment philosophical categories for thinking about religion and the Church, t…
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Aphrodisias in Caria was famous in antiquity as the center of an important local cult of Aphrodite. Although she was worshipped at the sanctuary by the seventh or sixth century B.C., little solid evidence concerning the Aphrodite of Aphrodisias can be securely dated prior to the…
Performing a sacrifice was one of the most sensorially full actions undertaken in the Greco-Roman world. The production and control of the correct movements, scents and sounds were prerequisites for summoning, communicating with and propitiating deities. Sacrifice was also ubiqu…
The purpose of this paper was to explore the possible reasons for a Roman to have chosen a Nilotic scene for the subject of a wall painting and to analyze the significance of Nilotic scenes through their context within the home. The analysis focused on a fragment of a wall paint…
The official cult of the Jerusalem monarchy was one of the governing tools. The principal structures of the official cult of the Jerusalem's monarchy were shaped in conjunction with the royal political agenda. They were in turn heavily conditioned by the contemporary historical …
Various sources attest to the significance of the incense celebration in Second Temple Jerusalem. Scholars disagree as to when this ceremony, on a specific golden altar, was instituted. The scriptural command in Exodus 30:1-10 seems to be a late interpolation. This ceremony is a…
The subject of this thesis is the relationship between hagiography and cult in the early medieval west taken through the example of the Passiones of St. Kilian of Würzburg († 689) in the period from circa 700 to circa 1000 AD. Through examining a cult which developed east of the…
The principal focus of the dissertation is ritual and the understanding of the human proclivity for control in a chaotic world. This proclivity resonates not only in the cults and sacred places of the Hellenistic-Roman world but distinguishes the very essence of humanity in term…
This study analyzes the decorative scheme of several chapels of the Temple of Hibis at the Kharga Oasis. The temple, considered one of the most important from Persian and Late Period Egypt, is dedicated to the god Amun of Hibis. The study includes Chapels F and G in the ground l…
This dissertation argues that various priestesshoods existed in ancient Greece in which women endeavored to conceive and give birth through non-ordinary (often parthenogenetic) means as an elevated form of spiritual practice. It posits that the intended purpose of this practice …
The object of Universal Goddess on the Via Sacra: The Evolving Image of Artemis Ephesia , is first and foremost to understand the nature of religious practices associated with Artemis Ephesia, using the most recent archaeological materials in this pursuit. This study begins by i…
Pottery is one of the most common artifacts in the archaeological record, and is often studied in terms of style, function, and technology to establish chronologies at the local or regional level, or to define cultural groups. As these traditional approaches to chronology and ty…
Emerging from her early western obscurity, St. Anne became one of the major cult figures of Latin Christianity by the turn of the sixteenth century. Her later cult has been the subject of numerous scholarly studies, but little attention has been given to the surviving evidence f…
The area adjacent to the Osiris temple precinct in North Abydos comprised a focal point for ritual activity associated with the cult of Osiris at both the royal and non-royal level during the Eighteenth Dynasty (ca 1552–1305 B.C.). Textual evidence attests to the utilization of …
This is a comparative study of the Leviticus commentary of Cyril of Alexandria and Theodoret of Cyrus, along with the contemporary aggadic midrash of the Rabbis, Leviticus Rabbah. The focus is on their reinterpretation of the sacrificial cult and ritual impurity. Relationship to…