Religion in Roman Egypt : assimilation and resistance
"This exploration of cultural resilience examines the complex fate of classical Egyptian religion during the centuries from the period when Christianity first made its appearance in Egypt to when it became the region's dominant religion (roughly 100 to 600 C.E.). Taking into account the full range of witnesses to continuing native piety - from papyri and saints' lives to archaeology and terra-cotta figurines - and drawing on anthropological studies of folk religion, David Frankfurter argues that the religion of Pharaonic Egypt did not die out as early as has been supposed but was instead relegated from political centers to village and home, where it continued a vigorous existence for centuries."--Jacket
Print Book, English, ©1998
Princeton University Press, Princeton, N.J., ©1998
xvi, 314 pages : illustrations, map ; 24 cm
9780691026855, 9780691070544, 0691026858, 0691070547
37975590
AcknowledgmentsAbbreviationsOverture: The Armor of Horus31Scope and Method52Religion and Temples373The Local Scope of Religious Belief974Mutations of the Egyptian Oracle1455Priest to Magician: Evolving Modes of Religious Authority1986The Scriptorium as Crucible of Religious Change2387Idiom, Ideology, and Iconoclasm: A Prolegomenon to the Conversion of Egypt265Select Bibliography285Index307