For Salvation's Sake: Provincial Loyalty, Personal Religion, and Epigraphic Production in the Roman and Late Antique Near East (Studies in Classics, Outstanding Dissertations, 3) PDF
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STUDIES IN CLASSICS Edited by Dirk Obbink Oxford University Andrew Dyck The University of California, Los Angeles A ROUTLEDGE SERIES STUDIES IN CLASSICS DIRK OBBINK AND ANDREW DYCK, General Editors SINGULAR DEDICATIONS Founders and Innovators of Private Cults in Classical Greece Andrea L.Purvis EMPEDOCLES An Interpretation Simon Trépanier APHRODITE AND EROS The Development of Greek Erotic Mythology Barbara Breitenberger A LINGUISTIC COMMENTARY ON LIVIUS ANDRONICUS Ivy Livingston RHETORIC IN CICERO’S PRO BALBO An Interpretation Kimberly Anne Barber “FOR SALVATION’S SAKE” Provincial Loyalty, Personal Religion, and Epigraphic Production in the Roman and Late Antique Near East Jason Moralee ROUTLEDGE New York & London Published in 2004 by Routledge 29 West 35th Street New York, NY 10001 Published in Great Britain by Routledge 11 New Fetter Lane London EC4P 4EE Copyright © 2004 by Routledge Routledge is an imprint of the Taylor & Francis Group. This edition published in the Taylor & Francis e-Library, 2005. “To purchase your own copy of this or any of Taylor & Francis or Routledge’s collection of thousands of eBooks please go to http://www.ebookstore.tandf.co.uk/.” All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reprinted or reproduced or utilized in any form or by any electronic, mechanical, or other means, now known or hereafter invented, including photocopying and recording, or in any information storage or retrieval system without permission in writing from the publisher. Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Moralee, Jason, 1973– “For salvation’s sake”: provincial loyalty, personal religion, and epigraphic production in the Roman and late antique Near East/Jason Moralee. p. cm.—(Studies in classics) Includes bibliographical references and index. ISBN 0-203-48531-9 Master e-book ISBN ISBN 0-203-57896-1 (Adobe e-Reader Format) ISBN 0-415-96778-3 (Print Edition) (hardcover: alk. paper) 1. Middle East-History—To 622.2. Middle East—History–622–1517. 3. Middle East—Politics and government. 4. Middle East—Religion. 5. Salvation. 6. Inscriptions, Latin—Middle East. 7. Inscriptions, Greek-Middle East. I. Title. II. Series. DS62.M58 2004 939′.405–dc22 Contents LIST OF FIGURES vi LIST OF TABLES vii LIST OF ABBREVIATIONS ix SERIES EDITORS’ FOREWORD xii ACKNOWLEDGMENTS xiii CHAPTER ONE Introduction 1 CHAPTER TWO The Salutary Ideology 17 CHAPTER THREE The Reception of the Salutary Ideology in the Near East 30 CHAPTER FOUR The Demise and Transformation of the Salutary Ideology 47 CHAPTER FIVE Pagan, Christian, and Jewish Dedications for Personal 55 Salvation CHAPTER SIX Localizing Provincial Loyalty and Personal Religion: 77 Three Case Studies CONCLUSION 93 APPENDIX 98 NOTES 158 BIBLIOGRAPHY 191 INDEX 204 List of Figures 1. Personification of Salvation depicted with features reminiscent of 52 Salus Publica. Mosaic from the “Bath of Apolausis” near Antioch, fifth century A.D. 2. Adadiabos depicted in the very moment of asking his god for the 81 salvation of himself, his children, and his household. Relief of Aphlad Theos, from the Temple of Aphlad, Dura Europos, A.D. 54. List of Tables 1. Dated Dedications for the Salvation of the Emperor by Emperor 5 and Region 2. Total Number of Inscriptions by Region 8 3. Dated Inscriptions by Region 8 4. The Religious Affiliation of the Dedicators of Inscriptions for the 9 Salvation of Emperors and for Personal Salvation, 100 B.C.-A.D. 800 5. Geographical Shift in Dedications for Personal Salvation 10 6. Dated Dedications for Salvation from the Near East 10 7. Dated Dedications for Salvation from Syria 11 8. Dated Dedications for Salvation from Lebanon 11 9. Dated Dedications for Salvation from Israel 11 10. Dated Dedications for Salvation from Jordan 12 11. Percentage of Roman, Greek, and Semitic Names by Region in the 33 Dedications for the Salvation of the Emperor 12. Percentage of Roman and Civil Occupations in the Dedications for 34 the Salvation of the Emperor 13. Gods Addressed in the Dedications for the Salvation of the 36 Emperor 14. Percentage of Roman, Greek, and Semitic Names by Region in the 58 Pagan Dedications for Personal Salvation 15. Gods Addressed in the Pagan Dedications for Personal Salvation 59 16. The Distribution of Christian Dedications for Personal Salvation 64 17. Percentage of Roman, Greek, Semitic, Biblical, and Anonymous 66 Names by Media in the Christian Dedications for Personal Salvation List of Abbreviations AE L’année épigraphique AJA American Journal of Archaeology AJPh American Journal of Philology ANF The Ante-Nicene Fathers, Grand Rapids, MI, 1971–86 ANRW Aufstieg und Niedergang der römischen Welt, Berlin, 1972– Baumann, Spätantike Stifter P.Baumann, Spätantike Stifter im Heiligen Land, Wiesbaden, 1999 BMCR Bryn Mawr Classical Review BMGS Byzantine and Modern Greek Studies BSOAS Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies CAH The Cambridge Ancient History, London, 1923– CAHL Christian Archaeology in the Holy Land, Jerusalem, 1990 CCL Corpus Christianorum, Series Latina CIG Corpus Inscriptionum Graecarum, Berlin, 1828–77 CIJ Corpus Inscriptionum Judaicarum, Rome, 1936 CIL Corpus Inscriptionum Latinarum, Berlin, 1862–1959 CRAI Comptes rendus des séances de l’Académie des inscriptions et belles-lettres DACL Dictionnaire d’archéologie chrétienne et de liturgie, Paris, 1913–53 Dijkstra, Life and Loyalty K.Dijkstra, Life and Loyalty: A Study in the Socio- Religious Culture of Syria and Mesopotamia in the Graeco-Roman Period Based on Epigraphical Evidence, Leiden, 1995 Di Segni L.Di Segni, Dated Greek Inscriptions from Palestine from the Roman and Byzantine Periods, Ph.D. diss., Hebrew University of Jerusalem, 1997 DOP Dumbarton Oaks Papers Dura Report The Excavations at Dura-Europos, Preliminary Report, New Haven, 1928– Gregg and Urman R.C.Gregg and D.Urman, Jews, Pagans, and Christians in the Golan Heights, Atlanta, 1996 IGLS Inscriptions grecques et latines de la Syrie, Paris, 1929– JRA Journal of Roman Archaeology
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