ABSTRACT
The Routledge Encyclopedia of Ancient Mediterranean Religions is the first comprehensive single-volume reference work offering authoritative coverage of ancient religions in the Mediterranean world. Chronologically, the volume’s scope extends from pre-historical antiquity in the third millennium B.C.E. through the rise of Islam in the seventh century C.E. An interdisciplinary approach draws out the common issues and elements between and among religious traditions in the Mediterranean basin. Key features of the volume include:
- Detailed maps of the Mediterranean World, ancient Egypt, the Roman Empire, and the Hellenistic World
- A comprehensive timeline of major events, innovations, and individuals, divided by region to provide both a diachronic and pan-Mediterranean, synchronic view
- A broad geographical range including western Asia, northern Africa, and southern Europe
This encyclopedia will serve as a key point of reference for all students and scholars interested in ancient Mediterranean culture and society.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
letter |116 pages
A
entry |2 pages
Aaron
entry |1 pages
Abaton
entry |1 pages
Abaye
entry |2 pages
Abbahu, Rabbi
entry |1 pages
ʿAbbasids
entry |2 pages
ʿAbd al-Malik
entry |1 pages
Abercius, Inscription of
entry |1 pages
Abgar
entry |1 pages
Abgar Legend
entry |1 pages
Abomination of Desolation
entry |2 pages
Abraham
entry |1 pages
Abrasax
entry |2 pages
Absolution
entry |1 pages
ʿAbu Bakr
entry |2 pages
Abu Simbel
entry |1 pages
Abydos
entry |1 pages
Abzu
entry |1 pages
Achaemenid
entry |1 pages
Acolyte
entry |2 pages
Acropolis
entry |1 pages
Acta Pilati
entry |2 pages
Acts of the Apostles
entry |2 pages
Adam
entry |2 pages
Adam, Apocalypse of
entry |1 pages
Adapa
entry |2 pages
Adiabene
entry |1 pages
Adonai: See YHWH
entry |1 pages
Adonis
entry |1 pages
Adoptionism
entry |2 pages
Aedes
entry |1 pages
Aelius Aristides
entry |2 pages
Aeneas
entry |1 pages
Aeneas of Gaza
entry |2 pages
Aeschylus
entry |3 pages
Afterlife
entry |1 pages
Agape
entry |1 pages
Agatha
entry |2 pages
Agathias
entry |2 pages
Aggadah
entry |1 pages
Agnes
entry |2 pages
Agora
entry |1 pages
Ahiqar, Proverbs of
entry |2 pages
Ahiqar, Tradition of
entry |1 pages
Ahl al-Bayt
entry |1 pages
Ahl al-Kitab
entry |2 pages
Ahura Mazdā
entry |2 pages
ʿAin Dara
entry |1 pages
Aion
entry |1 pages
Aker
entry |2 pages
Akh
entry |1 pages
Akhenaten
entry |2 pages
Akitu Ceremony
entry |1 pages
Akiva, Rabbi
entry |2 pages
Alexander of Abonouteichos
entry |2 pages
Alexander the Great
entry |2 pages
Alexandria
entry |2 pages
Alexandrine Liturgy
entry |1 pages
ʿAli b. Abi Talib
entry |1 pages
ʿAlids
entry |2 pages
Allah
entry |2 pages
Allat
entry |2 pages
Allegory
entry |3 pages
Almsgiving
entry |1 pages
Alpha and Omega
entry |6 pages
Altar
entry |1 pages
Amarna
entry |2 pages
Ambrose of Milan
entry |1 pages
Ambrosiaster
entry |2 pages
Amenti
entry |2 pages
Amesha Spentas
entry |1 pages
Amidah
entry |2 pages
Amon
entry |1 pages
Amoraim
entry |2 pages
Amos
entry |1 pages
Amphictyony
entry |2 pages
Amsar: See Misr
entry |2 pages
Amulet
entry |1 pages
Amurru
entry |1 pages
Anat
entry |3 pages
Ancestor Cult
entry |2 pages
Anchorite
entry |1 pages
Ancilla Dei
entry |1 pages
Andania
entry |1 pages
Andrew
entry |2 pages
Angel
entry |2 pages
Angelology
entry |1 pages
Anhur
entry |2 pages
Ankh
entry |1 pages
Anna Perenna
entry |2 pages
Antinous
entry |2 pages
Antioch
entry |2 pages
Antiochus IV
entry |1 pages
Antony
entry |1 pages
Anu
entry |1 pages
Anubis
entry |2 pages
Anuket
entry |1 pages
Anuna
entry |1 pages
Apelles
entry |2 pages
Apep
entry |2 pages
Aphrodisias
entry |2 pages
Aphrodite
entry |1 pages
Apis
entry |4 pages
Apocalypticism
entry |1 pages
Apocolocyntosis
entry |1 pages
Apocrypha
entry |2 pages
Apocryphal Acts of the Apostles
entry |2 pages
Apocryphon of John
entry |1 pages
Apokatastasis
entry |1 pages
Apollinaris of Laodicea
entry |2 pages
Apollo
entry |2 pages
Apollonius of Tyana
entry |2 pages
Apologetics
entry |1 pages
Apophthegmata Patrum
entry |2 pages
Apostasy
entry |1 pages
Apostle
entry |1 pages
Apostles' Creed
entry |2 pages
Apostolic Fathers
entry |1 pages
Apostolic Succession
entry |1 pages
Apotheosis
entry |2 pages
Apotropaic
entry |1 pages
Apuleius
entry |2 pages
Aqedah
entry |1 pages
Aqhat
entry |2 pages
Aqsa Mosque
entry |1 pages
Aquila and Prisca
entry |2 pages
Aquila of Sinope
entry |1 pages
Ara Maxima
entry |1 pages
Ara Pacis Augustae
entry |2 pages
Arabia
entry |2 pages
ʿArabiyya
entry |1 pages
Arad
entry |2 pages
Aramaic
entry |1 pages
Arch of Titus
entry |2 pages
Archisynagogos
entry |1 pages
Archontics
entry |1 pages
Arda Wiraz
entry |2 pages
Ardashir I
entry |1 pages
Ares
entry |2 pages
Arianism
entry |2 pages
Aristides of Athens
entry |1 pages
Aristobulus
entry |1 pages
Aristophanes
entry |2 pages
Aristotle
entry |2 pages
Ark of the Covenant
entry |1 pages
Arnobius of Sicca
entry |1 pages
Arsacid
entry |1 pages
Artapanus
entry |1 pages
Arval Brethren
entry |2 pages
Asceticism
entry |1 pages
Asher
entry |2 pages
Asherah
entry |1 pages
Ashimaʾ
entry |2 pages
Asklepios
entry |1 pages
Associators
entry |1 pages
Assumption
entry |1 pages
Assur
entry |1 pages
Astarte
entry |2 pages
Astrology
entry |1 pages
Astronomy
entry |2 pages
Egyptian
entry |1 pages
Babylonian
entry |2 pages
Greek and Roman
entry |1 pages
Asylum
entry |2 pages
Atarshamain
entry |1 pages
Atê
entry |2 pages
Aten
entry |1 pages
Athanasian Creed
entry |2 pages
Athanasius of Alexandria
entry |1 pages
Athena
entry |2 pages
Athenagoras
entry |1 pages
Athirat
entry |1 pages
Atrahasis
entry |1 pages
Attica
entry |1 pages
Attis
entry |2 pages
Atum
entry |1 pages
Augur
entry |1 pages
Augustales
entry |2 pages
Augustine of Hippo
entry |1 pages
Augustine, Rule of
entry |3 pages
Augustus
entry |1 pages
Auspices
entry |1 pages
Avesta
entry |2 pages
Avot De-Rabbi Natan
letter |36 pages
B
entry |2 pages
Ba
entry |1 pages
Ba-house
entry |2 pages
Baʿal
entry |2 pages
Baʿal Cycle
entry |1 pages
Baʿal Shemayin
entry |2 pages
Baʿal Zaphon
entry |1 pages
Baʿal Zebub
entry |2 pages
Baalam: See Deir Alla
entry |2 pages
Baʿalat Gebal
entry |1 pages
Babatha
entry |1 pages
Baboon, Sacred
entry |1 pages
Bacchai
entry |2 pages
Bacchanalia
entry |2 pages
Bacchantes
entry |1 pages
Bacchus
entry |2 pages
Baghdad
entry |1 pages
Bahira
entry |2 pages
Balaam
entry |1 pages
Balbina
entry |2 pages
Bamah
entry |2 pages
Baptism
entry |2 pages
Baptistery
entry |1 pages
Bar Kokhba
entry |1 pages
Bar Penkaye, John
entry |2 pages
Bardaisan of Edessa
entry |1 pages
Barnabas
entry |1 pages
Barnabas, Epistle of
entry |2 pages
Bartholomew
entry |1 pages
Bartholomew, Gospel of
entry |1 pages
1 Baruch
entry |2 pages
2 Baruch
entry |1 pages
3 Baruch
entry |1 pages
4 Baruch
entry |1 pages
Basil of Amasea
entry |1 pages
Basil of Caesarea
entry |2 pages
Basilica: See Church
entry |2 pages
Basilides
entry |1 pages
Bast
entry |1 pages
Beit Alpha
entry |2 pages
Beit Sheʿarim
entry |1 pages
Bel: See Marduk
entry |1 pages
Believers
entry |1 pages
Bellona
entry |2 pages
Ben Sira
entry |2 pages
Bene ʾEl
entry |1 pages
Benedict, Rule of
entry |2 pages
Benjamin
entry |1 pages
Bentresh Stele
entry |2 pages
Berossos
entry |1 pages
Bet Midrash: See Yeshiva
entry |1 pages
Bes
entry |2 pages
Bethel
entry |1 pages
Bethlehem
entry |1 pages
Bethsaida
entry |2 pages
Betrothal
entry |1 pages
Betyl
entry |2 pages
Bible
entry |1 pages
Birkat Ha-minim
entry |1 pages
Birth House
entry |2 pages
Birth of the Beautiful Gods
entry |2 pages
Birth Rituals
entry |2 pages
Bishop: See Episcopos
entry |2 pages
Blessings, Jewish
entry |1 pages
Book of the Dead
entry |1 pages
Bozrah
entry |1 pages
Brauron
entry |1 pages
Bridal Chamber
entry |2 pages
Brit: See Covenant
entry |2 pages
Bronze Age
entry |2 pages
Bull Imagery
entry |1 pages
Bull of Heaven
entry |2 pages
Burial: See Funerary Ritual
entry |2 pages
Byzantine Empire
entry |1 pages
Byzantine Rite
letter |76 pages
C
entry |2 pages
Caesar, Julius
entry |1 pages
Caesarea Maritima
entry |1 pages
Caesarea Philippi
entry |2 pages
Cairo Geniza
entry |7 pages
Calendar
entry |2 pages
Egyptian Calendars
entry |2 pages
The Babylonian Calendar
entry |1 pages
Jewish Calendars
entry |3 pages
Greek Calendars
entry |2 pages
Roman Calendars
entry |2 pages
Islamic Calendar
entry |2 pages
Caliph
entry |1 pages
Callixtus
entry |1 pages
Campus Martius
entry |1 pages
Cana
entry |1 pages
Canaan
entry |2 pages
Canon of the New Testament
entry |2 pages
Canopic Jars
entry |2 pages
Capitoline Triad
entry |1 pages
Capitolium
entry |1 pages
Cappadocian Fathers
entry |1 pages
Carmen Saeculare
entry |2 pages
Carthage
entry |1 pages
Cartonnage
entry |1 pages
Cartouche
entry |2 pages
Castor and Pollux
entry |2 pages
Catacomb
entry |1 pages
Catechumen
entry |2 pages
Catharsis
entry |2 pages
Cautes and Cautopates
entry |1 pages
Cave of Treasures
entry |1 pages
Cave Sanctuaries
entry |2 pages
Cecilia
entry |1 pages
Cella
entry |1 pages
Celsus
entry |2 pages
Centaur
entry |1 pages
Ceres
entry |2 pages
Chalcedon, Council of
entry |1 pages
Chaldean Oracles
entry |1 pages
Charon
entry |2 pages
Charter of Urso
entry |1 pages
Cherubim
entry |1 pages
Chi Rho
entry |1 pages
Chrism
entry |3 pages
Christ
entry |3 pages
Christian
entry |2 pages
Christmas
entry |1 pages
Christology
entry |2 pages
Chronicle of Eusebius
entry |1 pages
Chronicles, Book of
entry |2 pages
Chronicon Paschale
entry |1 pages
Chrysanthus and Daria
entry |2 pages
Chthonian
entry |3 pages
Church
entry |2 pages
Church of Rome
entry |2 pages
Cicero
entry |2 pages
Circumcision
entry |1 pages
Circus
entry |2 pages
Clement of Alexandria
entry |1 pages
Clement of Rome
entry |1 pages
Clementine Romance: See Pseudo-Clementines
entry |1 pages
Cleodemus Malchus
entry |1 pages
Codex Alexandrinus
entry |1 pages
Codex Bezae
entry |1 pages
Codex Bruce
entry |1 pages
Codex Sinaiticus
entry |2 pages
Codex Tchacos
entry |1 pages
Codex Vaticanus
entry |2 pages
Collegia
entry |1 pages
Colossians, Epistle to the
entry |2 pages
Columbarium
entry |1 pages
Community Rule
entry |2 pages
Companions
entry |1 pages
Compitalia
entry |1 pages
Confessio
entry |1 pages
Constantia
entry |2 pages
Constantine
entry |2 pages
Constantinople
entry |1 pages
Constantinople, First Council of
entry |1 pages
Constantinople, Second Council of
entry |2 pages
Constitution of Medina
entry |1 pages
Contendings of Horus and Seth
entry |5 pages
Conversion
entry |1 pages
Copper Scroll
entry |1 pages
Coptic
entry |2 pages
Coptic Christianity
entry |2 pages
Corinth
entry |2 pages
Corinthians, Epistles to the
entry |2 pages
Corpse
entry |2 pages
Cosmas and Damian
entry |3 pages
Cosmogony
entry |2 pages
Covenant
entry |2 pages
Creation: See Cosmogony
entry |2 pages
Crete
entry |2 pages
Ctesiphon
entry |1 pages
Cult
entry |2 pages
Cult Centralization
entry |2 pages
Cult of the Saints
entry |1 pages
Cult Stands
entry |1 pages
Cult Statue
entry |2 pages
Mesopotamia
entry |2 pages
Egypt and Northwest Semitic Areas, Including Israel
entry |2 pages
Greece and Rome
entry |1 pages
Cumae
entry |2 pages
Curse Tablets
entry |2 pages
Cylinder Seals
entry |1 pages
Cyprian of Carthage
entry |2 pages
Cyprus
entry |1 pages
Cyril of Alexandria
entry |1 pages
Cyril of Jerusalem
entry |1 pages
Cyrus
letter |52 pages
D
entry |1 pages
Dagan
entry |2 pages
Daimon
entry |1 pages
Dajjal
entry |2 pages
Damascus Document
entry |1 pages
Damasus
entry |2 pages
Dan
entry |1 pages
Daniel
entry |1 pages
Daniel, Apocalypses of
entry |1 pages
Daughters of Allah
entry |2 pages
David, King
entry |2 pages
Davidic King
entry |1 pages
Deacon
entry |2 pages
Deaconess
entry |1 pages
Dead Gods
entry |2 pages
Dead Sea Scrolls
entry |2 pages
Debate of a Man with His Ba
entry |1 pages
Decalogue
entry |2 pages
Decius
entry |1 pages
Dedications
entry |2 pages
Defilement: See Ritual Pollution
entry |2 pages
Deification
entry |2 pages
Deir Alla
entry |2 pages
Delos
entry |2 pages
Delphi
entry |2 pages
Demeter
entry |1 pages
Demetrius the Chronographer
entry |1 pages
Demiurge
entry |2 pages
Demon
entry |2 pages
Demonology
entry |2 pages
Dendera
entry |1 pages
Derveni Papyrus
entry |2 pages
Descent of Ishtar
entry |2 pages
Determinism
entry |2 pages
Deuteronomistic History
entry |1 pages
Deuteronomy
entry |2 pages
Devil
entry |2 pages
Devotio
entry |1 pages
Dhimmi
entry |1 pages
Dhu'l-Qarnayn: See Alexander the Great
entry |1 pages
Diana
entry |1 pages
Diaspora
entry |1 pages
Didache
entry |2 pages
Didascalia Apostolorum
entry |1 pages
Didymus the Blind
entry |1 pages
Dies Natalis
entry |2 pages
Dinah
entry |1 pages
Diocletian
entry |2 pages
Diodore of Tarsos
entry |1 pages
Diognetus, Epistle to
entry |2 pages
Dionysius Exiguus
entry |1 pages
Dionysius the Pseudo-Areopagite
entry |2 pages
Dionysos
entry |1 pages
Dioskouroi: See Castor and Pollux
entry |1 pages
Di Manes
entry |2 pages
Dis
entry |1 pages
Disciple
entry |1 pages
Divi Filius
entry |6 pages
Divination
entry |1 pages
Ancient Egypt
entry |2 pages
Mesopotamia
entry |1 pages
West-Semitic Cultures and Ancient Israel
entry |1 pages
Persia
entry |2 pages
Greece
entry |1 pages
Etruria
entry |1 pages
Rome
entry |1 pages
Arabia
entry |2 pages
Divine Assembly
entry |1 pages
Do Ut Des
entry |2 pages
Docetism
entry |2 pages
Documentary Hypothesis
entry |1 pages
Dolichenus, Jupiter
entry |2 pages
Dome of the Rock
entry |3 pages
Domestic Religion
entry |2 pages
Donatists
entry |3 pages
Dreams
entry |2 pages
Druids
entry |2 pages
Dualism
entry |1 pages
Dumuzi
entry |2 pages
Dura Europos
entry |1 pages
Dushara
entry |1 pages
Dying and Rising God
entry |1 pages
Dyophysite
letter |54 pages
E
entry |1 pages
E
entry |2 pages
Ea
entry |2 pages
Easter
entry |1 pages
Ebal, Mt
entry |2 pages
Ebionites
entry |1 pages
Ebla
entry |1 pages
Ecclesiastes
entry |1 pages
Ecumenical Council
entry |2 pages
Edessa
entry |1 pages
Edfu
entry |2 pages
Edict of Milan
entry |1 pages
Edict of Toleration
entry |2 pages
Edom
entry |1 pages
Egeria
entry |3 pages
Ein Gedi: See Qumran
entry |2 pages
EL
entry |1 pages
Elagabalus
entry |2 pages
Elam
entry |2 pages
Elat
entry |1 pages
Eldad and Modad
entry |2 pages
Elephantine
entry |1 pages
Eleusis
entry |2 pages
Eliezer ben Hyrcanus
entry |1 pages
Elijah, Apocalypse of
entry |1 pages
Elisha ben Abuye
entry |2 pages
Elohim
entry |2 pages
Emar
entry |1 pages
Encratites
entry |2 pages
Enki: See Ea
entry |2 pages
Enkidu
entry |1 pages
Enlil
entry |2 pages
Ennead
entry |1 pages
1 Enoch
entry |2 pages
2 Enoch
entry |1 pages
3 Enoch
entry |2 pages
Enuma Elish
entry |1 pages
Ephesians, Epistle to the
entry |4 pages
Ephesos
entry |1 pages
Ephesos, Council of
entry |1 pages
Ephod
entry |1 pages
Ephraim
entry |2 pages
Ephrem the Syrian
entry |1 pages
Epicureanism
entry |2 pages
Epidauros
entry |3 pages
Epigraphy
entry |1 pages
Epiphanius of Salamis
entry |1 pages
Episcopos
entry |2 pages
Epithets
entry |1 pages
Epulones
entry |1 pages
Erechtheion
entry |1 pages
Ereshkigal
entry |1 pages
Eridu
entry |2 pages
Erinyes
entry |1 pages
Eros
entry |2 pages
Erra
entry |1 pages
Esangil
entry |2 pages
Eshmun
entry |1 pages
Esna
entry |2 pages
Essenes
entry |1 pages
Esther
entry |2 pages
Etemenanki
entry |1 pages
Ethnarch
entry |1 pages
Etrog
entry |2 pages
Etrusca Disciplina
entry |3 pages
Etruscans
entry |2 pages
Eucharist
entry |2 pages
Euergetism
entry |1 pages
Eulalia
entry |1 pages
Eupolemus
entry |1 pages
Euripides
entry |2 pages
Eusebius of Caesarea
entry |1 pages
Eusebius of Nicomedia
entry |2 pages
Evagrios Pontikos
entry |1 pages
Evangelist
entry |2 pages
Eve
entry |1 pages
Evocatio
entry |1 pages
Exilarch
entry |2 pages
Exile
entry |1 pages
Exodus
entry |3 pages
Exorcism
entry |1 pages
Ancient Near East
entry |2 pages
Israelite
entry |1 pages
Christian
entry |2 pages
Expiation
entry |3 pages
Extispicy
entry |1 pages
Ezekiel
entry |2 pages
Ezekiel the Tragedian
entry |1 pages
Ezida
entry |2 pages
Ezra
entry |1 pages
4 Ezra
entry |1 pages
Ezra, Vision of
letter |24 pages
F
entry |2 pages
Falcon
entry |1 pages
Fanum
entry |1 pages
Fascinus
entry |2 pages
Fasti
entry |1 pages
Fasti
entry |2 pages
Fasting
entry |1 pages
Fate
entry |3 pages
Greece and Rome
entry |2 pages
Judaism
entry |1 pages
Christianity
entry |2 pages
Faunus
entry |1 pages
Feast of the Valley
entry |1 pages
Felicitas
entry |2 pages
Feriae Latinae
entry |1 pages
Feriale Duranum
entry |1 pages
Fetial
entry |2 pages
Fides
entry |3 pages
Figurines
entry |2 pages
Filioque
entry |2 pages
Fiqh
entry |1 pages
Fire, The
entry |2 pages
First Temple
entry |1 pages
Fiscus Judaicus
entry |2 pages
Fitna
entry |1 pages
Flamen
entry |1 pages
Flavia Domitilla
entry |2 pages
Fortuna
entry |2 pages
Frawahar
entry |3 pages
Free Will: See Fate
entry |3 pages
Funerary Rituals
entry |2 pages
North Africa
entry |2 pages
Near East
entry |2 pages
Greek World
entry |2 pages
Roman World
entry |1 pages
Al-Furqan
letter |18 pages
G
entry |1 pages
Galatians
entry |2 pages
Galerius
entry |1 pages
Galilee
entry |2 pages
Galli
entry |1 pages
Gamaliel
entry |2 pages
Garden, The
entry |1 pages
Geb
entry |2 pages
Genesis
entry |1 pages
Genesis Apocryphon
entry |2 pages
Genius
entry |2 pages
Gentile
entry |1 pages
Geonim
entry |2 pages
Gerizim, MT
entry |1 pages
Gesta Martyrum
entry |2 pages
Gezer, Tel
entry |2 pages
Ghost Rituals
entry |1 pages
Gilgamesh
entry |1 pages
Glossolalia
entry |3 pages
Gnosticism
entry |1 pages
Goat Imagery
entry |2 pages
God's Wife of Amon
entry |2 pages
Godfearers
entry |1 pages
Golgotha
entry |2 pages
Gospels
entry |2 pages
Greek Apocalypse of Ezra
entry |1 pages
Greek Magical Papyri
entry |2 pages
Gregory of Nazianzus
entry |1 pages
Gregory of Nyssa
entry |1 pages
Griffin
letter |66 pages
H
entry |1 pages
Habakkuk
entry |2 pages
Hadad
entry |2 pages
Hades
entry |1 pages
Hadith
entry |2 pages
Hagar
entry |1 pages
Haggadah
entry |2 pages
Haggai
entry |1 pages
Hagia Sophia
entry |2 pages
Hagiography
entry |2 pages
Hajj
entry |2 pages
Halakhah
entry |1 pages
Halakhic Letter
entry |2 pages
Hallel
entry |1 pages
Han-Ilat
entry |2 pages
Hanif
entry |1 pages
Hannah
entry |2 pages
Hanukkah
entry |1 pages
Hapi
entry |1 pages
Haram
entry |2 pages
Harpokrates
entry |2 pages
Harran
entry |2 pages
Haruspices
entry |1 pages
Hasidim
entry |1 pages
Hasmoneans
entry |2 pages
Hathor
entry |2 pages
Havdalah
entry |1 pages
Hazor
entry |1 pages
Healing Cults
entry |1 pages
Mesopotamia
entry |2 pages
Egypt
entry |1 pages
Israel
entry |2 pages
Greece
entry |2 pages
Rome
entry |2 pages
Christianity
entry |2 pages
Heaven
entry |2 pages
Hebrew
entry |2 pages
Hebrew Bible
entry |2 pages
Hebrews, Epistle to the
entry |1 pages
Hebron
entry |1 pages
Hegesippus
entry |2 pages
Hekate
entry |1 pages
Hekhalot Literature
entry |2 pages
Helena
entry |1 pages
Heliogabulus: See Elagabulus
entry |1 pages
Heliopolis
entry |2 pages
Heliopolitanus, Jupiter
entry |1 pages
Helios: See Sol
entry |1 pages
Hell
entry |2 pages
Hellenistic Age
entry |2 pages
Hellenistic Judaism
entry |2 pages
Hellenistic Synagogal Prayers
entry |1 pages
Henotheism
entry |2 pages
Henoticon
entry |1 pages
Hephaistos
entry |2 pages
Hera
entry |1 pages
Heraclius
entry |3 pages
Herakles
entry |1 pages
Herefhaf
entry |2 pages
Herem
entry |4 pages
Heresy
entry |1 pages
Hermes
entry |1 pages
Hermes Trismegistus
entry |2 pages
Hermetica
entry |1 pages
Herms
entry |2 pages
Hero Cult
entry |2 pages
Herod Antipas
entry |1 pages
Herod the Great
entry |2 pages
Herodotos
entry |2 pages
Hesiod
entry |1 pages
Hestia
entry |2 pages
Hezekiah
entry |1 pages
Hierapolis
entry |1 pages
Hierodoulos
entry |2 pages
Hieroglyphs
entry |1 pages
Hierophant
entry |2 pages
High Priest
entry |2 pages
Hijra
entry |1 pages
Hillel
entry |1 pages
Himyar
entry |2 pages
Hippocrates
entry |2 pages
Hippolytus of Rome
entry |1 pages
Historia Monarchorum in Aegypto
entry |2 pages
Holocaust
entry |1 pages
Holy Sepulchre, Church of the
entry |2 pages
Homer
entry |3 pages
Homeric Hymns
entry |1 pages
Homily
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Homoousion Controversy
entry |2 pages
Honi
entry |1 pages
Horos
entry |3 pages
Horus
entry |1 pages
Hour, The
entry |1 pages
Houri
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House Church
entry |2 pages
House of Life
entry |1 pages
House of the High Priest
entry |1 pages
House of the Magician Priest
entry |2 pages
Hubris
entry |1 pages
Hud
entry |2 pages
Human Sacrifice
entry |1 pages
Al-Husayn b. ʿAli
entry |2 pages
Hymn
entry |1 pages
Hymn of Rising
entry |1 pages
Hypocrites
entry |2 pages
Hypostasis of the Archons
entry |2 pages
Hypsistos
letter |22 pages
I
entry |1 pages
Iamblichos
entry |2 pages
Iblis: See Devil
entry |2 pages
Icon
entry |1 pages
Iconoclasm
entry |2 pages
Idol
entry |1 pages
Idris
entry |2 pages
Iggeret of Sherira Gaon
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Igigi
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Ignatius of Antioch
entry |1 pages
Iliad
entry |1 pages
Imam
entry |4 pages
Imperial Cult
entry |2 pages
Inanna: See Ishtar
entry |2 pages
Inara
entry |1 pages
Incantations
entry |2 pages
Incubation
entry |1 pages
Indigites
entry |1 pages
Infancy Gospel of Thomas
entry |2 pages
Initiate
entry |1 pages
Instauratio
entry |2 pages
Interpretatio Romana
entry |1 pages
Ioannes Lydos
entry |2 pages
Irenaeus of Lyons
entry |1 pages
Isaac
entry |2 pages
Isaiah
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Ishmael
entry |1 pages
Ishmael Ben Elisha, Rabbi
entry |2 pages
Ishtar
entry |4 pages
Isis
entry |1 pages
Isra ʾiliyyat
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Israel, Kingdom of
entry |2 pages
Israelites
entry |2 pages
Isthmia
letter |36 pages
J
entry |1 pages
J
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Jackal, Sacred
entry |1 pages
Jacob
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Jacob of Serugh
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Jahiliyya
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James
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James Ossuary
entry |1 pages
James, Apocryphon of
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James, Epistle of
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James, First Apocalypse of
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James, Second Apocalypse of
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Jannes and Jambres
entry |1 pages
Janus
entry |1 pages
Jehoahaz
entry |2 pages
Jephtah, Daughter of
entry |1 pages
Jeremiah
entry |2 pages
Jericho
entry |2 pages
Jeroboam
entry |1 pages
Jerome
entry |4 pages
Jerusalem
entry |2 pages
Jerusalem Council
entry |3 pages
Jesus of Nazareth
entry |2 pages
Jew and Judean
entry |2 pages
Jewish Christians
entry |1 pages
Jihad
entry |2 pages
Jizya
entry |1 pages
Job
entry |2 pages
Joel
entry |1 pages
Johannine Literature
entry |2 pages
John
entry |1 pages
John Chrysostom
entry |2 pages
John the Baptist
entry |1 pages
John, Gospel of
entry |2 pages
Jonah
entry |1 pages
Joseph and Aseneth
entry |2 pages
Joseph of Arimathea
entry |1 pages
Joseph (Father of Jesus)
entry |1 pages
Joseph, History of
entry |2 pages
Joseph (Son of Jacob)
entry |2 pages
Josephus, Flavius
entry |1 pages
Joshua
entry |1 pages
Joshua Ben Hananiah, Rabbi
entry |2 pages
Josiah
entry |1 pages
Jubilee: See Sabbatical year
entry |1 pages
Jubilees, Book of
entry |2 pages
Judah
entry |2 pages
Judah Ha-Nasi, Rabbi
entry |1 pages
Judah Maccabee
entry |2 pages
Judaism
entry |2 pages
Judas Iscariot
entry |1 pages
Judas, Gospel of
entry |1 pages
Jude, Epistle of
entry |1 pages
Judges
entry |1 pages
Julian
entry |2 pages
Junia
entry |1 pages
Juno
entry |3 pages
Jupiter
entry |1 pages
Justin Martyr
entry |2 pages
Justinian
letter |20 pages
K
entry |2 pages
Ka
entry |1 pages
Kaʿba
entry |2 pages
Kabeiroi
entry |1 pages
Kaddish
entry |2 pages
Kahin
entry |1 pages
Kalam
entry |2 pages
Kalû Priest
entry |1 pages
Karbalaʾ, Battle of
entry |2 pages
Karnak
entry |2 pages
Kashrut
entry |1 pages
Kedar, Kingdom of
entry |1 pages
Kedushah
entry |1 pages
Kemosh
entry |2 pages
Kerdir
entry |1 pages
Ketubbah
entry |1 pages
Kharijites
entry |1 pages
Khert-Netjer
entry |1 pages
Khirbet El-Qom
entry |2 pages
Khnum
entry |1 pages
Khonsu
entry |2 pages
Khosrow I
entry |1 pages
Khutba
entry |1 pages
Kings, Books of
entry |1 pages
Kingship, Sacred
entry |1 pages
Kirta Epic
entry |2 pages
Kispu Ceremony
entry |1 pages
Al-Kitab
entry |2 pages
Knossos
entry |1 pages
Kohanim
entry |1 pages
Kom Ombo
entry |1 pages
Kore: See Persephone
entry |1 pages
Kotharat
entry |2 pages
Kronos
entry |1 pages
Kudurru
entry |3 pages
Kybele
entry |1 pages
Kyrios
letter |32 pages
L
entry |2 pages
Lachish
entry |1 pages
Lactantius
entry |2 pages
Ladder of Jacob
entry |1 pages
Lamassu and Shedu
entry |2 pages
Lamentations of Isis and Nephthys
entry |1 pages
Laodicea
entry |2 pages
Lares
entry |1 pages
Largo Argentina
entry |2 pages
Lateran
entry |1 pages
Lausiac History
entry |2 pages
Lavinium
entry |4 pages
Law, Sacred
entry |1 pages
Greek Sacred Law
entry |2 pages
Jewish Sacred Law
entry |1 pages
Roman Sacred Law
entry |1 pages
Lazarus
entry |1 pages
Leah
entry |1 pages
Lectisternium
entry |1 pages
Lector
entry |1 pages
Lent
entry |1 pages
Leontopolis
entry |1 pages
Letter of Aristeas
entry |2 pages
Letter of Peter to Philip
entry |1 pages
Letters to Gods
entry |2 pages
Levi
entry |1 pages
Leviathan
entry |1 pages
Levirate
entry |2 pages
Levites
entry |2 pages
Leviticus
entry |1 pages
Libanius
entry |2 pages
Libation
entry |1 pages
Libellus
entry |2 pages
Liber
entry |1 pages
Liber Pontificalis
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Life of Adam and Eve
entry |1 pages
Lilith
entry |2 pages
Linear B
entry |1 pages
Litany of Osiris
entry |2 pages
Liturgy
entry |1 pages
Liturgy of John Chrysostom
entry |1 pages
Liturgy of Mark
entry |2 pages
Lituus
entry |1 pages
Lives of the Prophets
entry |2 pages
Livy
entry |1 pages
Logos
entry |2 pages
Lord: See Kyrios
entry |2 pages
Lotus
entry |1 pages
Lucian of Samosata
entry |2 pages
Lucretius
entry |1 pages
Ludi
entry |2 pages
Ludi Saeculares
entry |2 pages
Luke, Gospel of
entry |1 pages
Lulav
entry |2 pages
Lupercalia
entry |1 pages
Lustratio
entry |1 pages
Luxor
entry |1 pages
Lycurgus
letter |82 pages
M
entry |1 pages
Maʿaseh Merkavah
entry |2 pages
Ma'at
entry |1 pages
Macarius
entry |2 pages
1 Maccabees
entry |1 pages
2 Maccabees
entry |1 pages
3 Maccabees
entry |2 pages
4 Maccabees
entry |1 pages
Macrina the Younger
entry |3 pages
Macrobius
entry |1 pages
Madhhab
entry |1 pages
Maenads
entry |1 pages
Magdalene, Mary
entry |1 pages
Magi
entry |4 pages
Magic
entry |1 pages
Magic Bowls, Aramaic
entry |2 pages
Magna Mater: See Kybele
entry |2 pages
Magnificat
entry |1 pages
Malachi
entry |1 pages
Manawat
entry |2 pages
Mania
entry |2 pages
Manichaeism
entry |1 pages
Manna
entry |2 pages
Marcion
entry |1 pages
Marcus the Magician
entry |1 pages
Marduk
entry |3 pages
Mari
entry |1 pages
Mark, Gospel of
entry |2 pages
Mark, Secret Gospel of
entry |3 pages
Marriage
entry |1 pages
Marriage, Sacred
entry |2 pages
Mars
entry |3 pages
Martyr
entry |1 pages
Martyrdom and Ascension of Isaiah
entry |1 pages
Martyrium
entry |2 pages
Mary
entry |2 pages
Mary of Egypt
entry |1 pages
Mary, Gospel of
entry |1 pages
Maryam: See Mary
entry |1 pages
Marzeah
entry |2 pages
Massevot
entry |2 pages
Mastaba
entry |1 pages
Matthew
entry |2 pages
Matthew, Gospel of
entry |1 pages
Mawla
entry |2 pages
Mazdak
entry |1 pages
Mē
entry |4 pages
Meals, Sacred
entry |2 pages
Mecca
entry |2 pages
Medea
entry |2 pages
Medina
entry |1 pages
Medinet Habu
entry |2 pages
Megiddo
entry |1 pages
Megillat Taʿanit
entry |2 pages
Meir, Rabbi
entry |1 pages
Mekhilta
entry |1 pages
Melammu
entry |2 pages
Melania
entry |1 pages
Melito of Sardis
entry |2 pages
Melqart
entry |1 pages
Menorah
entry |2 pages
Mercury
entry |1 pages
Merneptah Stele
entry |2 pages
Mesha Stele
entry |2 pages
Messiah
entry |1 pages
Metatron
entry |2 pages
Metroon
entry |1 pages
Miaphysite: See Monophysite
entry |1 pages
Miasma: See Ritual Pollution
entry |1 pages
Micah
entry |2 pages
Midrash
entry |1 pages
Midrash Rabbah
entry |2 pages
Min (God)
entry |1 pages
Min (Heresy)
entry |2 pages
Minaeans
entry |1 pages
Minerva
entry |2 pages
Minucius Felix
entry |1 pages
Miqsat Ma'ase Torah (Mmt): See Halakhic Letter
entry |1 pages
Miqveh
entry |2 pages
Mirabilia Urbis Romae
entry |2 pages
Miracle
entry |1 pages
Mis Pi: See Opening of the Mouth Ceremony
entry |1 pages
Mishnah
entry |2 pages
Misr
entry |1 pages
Mitanni
entry |3 pages
Mithraeum
entry |3 pages
Mithraism
entry |2 pages
Mitzvah
entry |1 pages
Moab
entry |2 pages
Molech
entry |2 pages
Monasticism
entry |2 pages
Monica
entry |1 pages
Monk
entry |2 pages
Monolatry
entry |2 pages
Monophysite
entry |1 pages
Montanism
entry |1 pages
Montu
entry |3 pages
Moses
entry |1 pages
Mosque
entry |2 pages
Mot
entry |3 pages
Muhammad
entry |2 pages
Mummification
entry |1 pages
Muratorian Fragment
entry |2 pages
Muruwwa
entry |1 pages
Musaf
entry |2 pages
Muses
entry |1 pages
Mut
entry |2 pages
Muwattaʾ
entry |1 pages
Muʿtazilites
entry |3 pages
Mycenaeans
entry |2 pages
Mystery Religions
entry |2 pages
Greek Mystery Religions
entry |2 pages
Mystery Religions in the Hellenistic and Roman worlds
entry |2 pages
Mysteries and Christianity
entry |2 pages
Myth
entry |2 pages
History of Study
entry |3 pages
The Use of Myths in the Ancient Mediterranean
entry |2 pages
Myths Shared by Ancient Mediterranean Cultures
entry |2 pages
Myths that Aren't Shared
letter |28 pages
N
entry |2 pages
Nabataeans
entry |1 pages
Nabu
entry |2 pages
Nadītu
entry |2 pages
Nag Hammadi Library
entry |1 pages
Nahariyah
entry |1 pages
Nahum
entry |1 pages
Najran
entry |3 pages
Naked Goddess
entry |1 pages
Name Theology
entry |2 pages
Naphtali
entry |1 pages
Naqsh-e Rustam
entry |2 pages
Nazareth
entry |1 pages
Nazirite
entry |1 pages
Necromancy
entry |1 pages
Nehemiah
entry |2 pages
Neith
entry |1 pages
Nekhbet
entry |1 pages
Nemesis
entry |1 pages
Neokoros
entry |2 pages
Neoplatonism
entry |2 pages
Neopythagoreanism
entry |1 pages
Nephthys
entry |2 pages
Nerab Inscriptions
entry |1 pages
Nergal
entry |2 pages
Nero
entry |2 pages
Nestorius
entry |1 pages
Netinim
entry |2 pages
New Prophecy: See Montanism
entry |2 pages
New Testament
entry |2 pages
Nicaea, First Council of
entry |1 pages
Nicene Creed
entry |1 pages
Nicodemus
entry |2 pages
Nicodemus, Gospel of: See Acta Pilati
entry |1 pages
Night Journey
entry |2 pages
Nike
entry |1 pages
Nile
entry |1 pages
Ningishzida
entry |1 pages
Ninhursag
entry |1 pages
Ninlil
entry |2 pages
Ninurta
entry |1 pages
Nippur
entry |2 pages
Nisibis, School of
entry |1 pages
Noahide Laws
entry |1 pages
Noqdim
entry |1 pages
Novatian
entry |1 pages
Numa
entry |2 pages
Numbers
entry |1 pages
Numen
entry |1 pages
Nun
entry |1 pages
Nut
entry |2 pages
Nymph
letter |24 pages
O
entry |1 pages
Obadiah
entry |2 pages
Obelisk
entry |1 pages
Obsequens, Julius
entry |1 pages
Odes of Solomon
entry |2 pages
Odyssey
entry |1 pages
Offering Table
entry |2 pages
Oikos
entry |2 pages
Olympia
entry |2 pages
Olympians
entry |2 pages
Olympos, MT
entry |2 pages
Omens
entry |1 pages
Omer
entry |2 pages
Omobono, San
entry |1 pages
Oneiromancy: See Dreams
entry |1 pages
Onias III
entry |1 pages
Onias IV
entry |2 pages
Opening of the Mouth
entry |1 pages
Opet Festival
entry |3 pages
Oracle
entry |2 pages
Oral Torah
entry |1 pages
Orans
entry |2 pages
Oriental Cults
entry |1 pages
Origen of Alexandria
entry |2 pages
Original Sin
entry |2 pages
Orosius
entry |1 pages
Orphic Gold Tablets
entry |4 pages
Orphism
entry |2 pages
Orthodoxy
entry |2 pages
Orthopraxy
entry |2 pages
Osiris
entry |1 pages
Ossuary
entry |2 pages
Ovid
entry |1 pages
Oxyrhynchus
letter |102 pages
P
entry |1 pages
P
entry |2 pages
Pachomius
entry |1 pages
Paganism
entry |2 pages
Palladium
entry |1 pages
Palm Sunday
entry |2 pages
Palmyra
entry |1 pages
Pan
entry |2 pages
Panathenaia
entry |2 pages
Pandora
entry |2 pages
Pantheon
entry |1 pages
Papacy: See Church of Rome
entry |1 pages
Paphos
entry |2 pages
Papyrus Westcar
entry |1 pages
Parables
entry |2 pages
Paraclete
entry |1 pages
Parilia
entry |2 pages
Parthenon
entry |2 pages
Passion Narratives
entry |1 pages
Passover: See Pesach
entry |1 pages
Pastoral Epistles
entry |2 pages
Patriarch
entry |3 pages
Paul
entry |2 pages
Paul, Influence of
entry |1 pages
Paul and Thecla, Acts of
entry |2 pages
Pausanias
entry |2 pages
Pax Deorum
entry |1 pages
Pe'ah
entry |2 pages
Peak Sanctuaries
entry |1 pages
Pelagia
entry |2 pages
Pelagius
entry |1 pages
Penates
entry |2 pages
Pentapolis
entry |1 pages
Peplos
entry |2 pages
Peregrinus Proteus
entry |1 pages
Perpetua
entry |2 pages
Persephone
entry |1 pages
Persepolis
entry |2 pages
Persia
entry |2 pages
Personification
entry |2 pages
Pesach
entry |1 pages
Pesher
entry |1 pages
Pesiqta de Rav Kahana
entry |2 pages
Peter
entry |2 pages
Peter, Epistles of
entry |1 pages
Petronilla
entry |2 pages
Pharaoh
entry |2 pages
Pharisees
entry |2 pages
Phiale
entry |1 pages
Philae
entry |1 pages
Philemon
entry |2 pages
Philip, Gospel of
entry |1 pages
Philippians, Epistle to the
entry |2 pages
Philo of Alexandria
entry |2 pages
Philosophy
entry |2 pages
Phoebus
entry |2 pages
Phoenicia
entry |1 pages
Phratry
entry |1 pages
Piacenza Liver
entry |2 pages
Pietas
entry |1 pages
Pilgrimage
entry |2 pages
Egypt
entry |1 pages
Judea
entry |2 pages
Greece
entry |2 pages
Christianity
entry |2 pages
Pillar Figurines
entry |1 pages
Pirqe de Rabbi Eliezer
entry |2 pages
Pistis
entry |1 pages
Piyyut
entry |2 pages
Plato
entry |2 pages
Pliny the Younger
entry |1 pages
Plotinus
entry |2 pages
Plutarch
entry |1 pages
Pneuma
entry |3 pages
Polis Religion
entry |4 pages
Pollution, Ritual
entry |1 pages
Polycarp of Smyrna
entry |2 pages
Pomerium
entry |1 pages
Pompa
entry |2 pages
Pontifex
entry |1 pages
Pontifex Maximus
entry |2 pages
Pontius Pilate
entry |1 pages
Porphyry
entry |2 pages
Poseidon
entry |2 pages
Possession
entry |1 pages
Potiphar
entry |1 pages
Potnia Theron
entry |1 pages
Potter's Oracle
entry |1 pages
Praeneste
entry |1 pages
Prayer
entry |2 pages
Sources
entry |3 pages
Basic Types and Rhetoric
entry |2 pages
Occasions for Prayer
entry |2 pages
Basic Structures and Features of Prayers
entry |2 pages
Prayers of Complaint
entry |1 pages
Prayer of Joseph
entry |1 pages
Prayer of Manasseh
entry |1 pages
Presbyter
entry |1 pages
Priest
entry |1 pages
Mesopotamia
entry |2 pages
Greek
entry |2 pages
Roman
entry |1 pages
Judean
entry |1 pages
Christian
entry |3 pages
Priestess
entry |1 pages
Priestly Vestments
entry |2 pages
Priscillianism
entry |1 pages
Proba, Faltonia
entry |2 pages
Proclus
entry |1 pages
Procopius
entry |2 pages
Prodigy
entry |2 pages
Prometheus
entry |1 pages
Pronaos
entry |3 pages
Prophets and Prophecy
entry |2 pages
Prostitution, Sacred
entry |1 pages
Protevangelium of James
entry |2 pages
Proverbs
entry |1 pages
Prudentius
entry |1 pages
Psalms of Solomon
entry |1 pages
Psalms, Book of
entry |2 pages
Pseudepigrapha
entry |1 pages
Pseudo-Clementines
entry |2 pages
Pseudo–Greek Poets
entry |1 pages
Pseudo-Hecataeus
entry |1 pages
Pseudo-Methodius
entry |2 pages
Pseudo-Philo
entry |1 pages
Pseudo-Phocylides
entry |2 pages
Psyche
entry |1 pages
Ptah
entry |3 pages
Ptolemaic Kingdom
entry |2 pages
Ptolemy (Gnostic)
entry |1 pages
Pumbedita
entry |4 pages
Purification Rituals
entry |1 pages
Purim
entry |1 pages
Purity
entry |2 pages
Theoretical Background
entry |4 pages
Purity Terminology
entry |2 pages
Social Implications of Purity
entry |2 pages
Pylon
entry |2 pages
Pyramid
entry |1 pages
Pyramid Texts
entry |2 pages
Pythagoras
entry |3 pages
Pythia
letter |8 pages
Q
entry |2 pages
Q
entry |1 pages
Qadarites
entry |1 pages
Qadeshim
entry |2 pages
Qadi
entry |1 pages
Qilir, Eleazar Birabi
entry |1 pages
Qitmit
entry |1 pages
Qos: See Edom
entry |1 pages
Quartodecimans
entry |2 pages
Questions of Ezra
entry |1 pages
Quindecemviri Sacris Faciundis
entry |1 pages
Quirinus
entry |2 pages
Qumran
entry |1 pages
Quraysh
entry |3 pages
Qurʾan
letter |28 pages
R
entry |1 pages
Rabbah
entry |3 pages
Rabbi
entry |2 pages
Rabbinic Theology
entry |1 pages
Rachel
entry |3 pages
Rakkab-EL
entry |1 pages
Ramadan
entry |2 pages
Ras Shamra: See Ugarit
entry |2 pages
Rashidun
entry |1 pages
Rava
entry |1 pages
Ravina
entry |3 pages
Re
entry |1 pages
Rebekah
entry |1 pages
Rechabites, History of THE
entry |1 pages
Relic
entry |2 pages
Religio
entry |1 pages
Reliquary
entry |2 pages
Renenutet
entry |1 pages
Rephaʾim
entry |2 pages
Reshep
entry |2 pages
Resurrection
entry |2 pages
Reuben
entry |1 pages
Revelation of Ezra
entry |3 pages
Revelation of John
entry |1 pages
Rex Sacrorum
entry |1 pages
Rhyton Sanctuary
entry |1 pages
Ridda
entry |1 pages
Rimmon
entry |2 pages
Risala of Al-Shafiʿi
entry |2 pages
Rites of Passage
entry |4 pages
Ritual
entry |1 pages
Roma
entry |2 pages
Romans, Epistle to the
entry |2 pages
Rome
entry |2 pages
Romulus
entry |1 pages
Rosetta Stone
entry |2 pages
Rosh Hashanah
entry |1 pages
Rosh Hodesh
entry |1 pages
Ruth
entry |2 pages
Rylands Papyrus
letter |92 pages
S
entry |1 pages
Sabazios
entry |2 pages
Sabbath
entry |2 pages
Sabbatical Year
entry |1 pages
Sabellianism
entry |2 pages
Sacerdos
entry |1 pages
Sacra Publica
entry |1 pages
Sacrament
entry |2 pages
Sacrifice
entry |1 pages
History of Research
entry |2 pages
Functions
entry |2 pages
Addressees
entry |3 pages
Animal Sacrifice
entry |1 pages
Libations and Fumigations
entry |2 pages
Other Sacrifices
entry |1 pages
The End of Sacrifice
entry |2 pages
Sadducees
entry |1 pages
Sages of Mehweret
entry |2 pages
Sah
entry |1 pages
ST. Paul, Basilica of
entry |1 pages
ST. Peter, Basilica of
entry |1 pages
Salat
entry |1 pages
Salih
entry |1 pages
Salome
entry |3 pages
Salvation
entry |1 pages
Samaria
entry |1 pages
Samaritan Pentateuch
entry |2 pages
Samaritans
entry |2 pages
Samothrace
entry |1 pages
Samson
entry |2 pages
Samuel
entry |1 pages
San Lorenzo Fuori Le Mura, Basilica of
entry |2 pages
Sanctuary
entry |1 pages
Egypt
entry |2 pages
Ancient Greece
entry |1 pages
Etruria and Rome
entry |2 pages
Judaism, Christianity and Islam
entry |2 pages
Sanhedrin
entry |1 pages
Saqqara
entry |2 pages
Sarah
entry |2 pages
Sarapis
entry |1 pages
Sarcophagus
entry |1 pages
Sardis
entry |2 pages
Sasanian
entry |1 pages
Satan
entry |1 pages
Satanic Verses
entry |1 pages
Satis
entry |1 pages
Saturnalia
entry |2 pages
Satyr
entry |1 pages
Savior: See Soter
entry |1 pages
Sawm
entry |1 pages
Scapegoat
entry |1 pages
Scarab
entry |2 pages
Scillium, Martyrs of
entry |1 pages
Scythopolis
entry |3 pages
Sea Peoples
entry |1 pages
Seal of the Prophets
entry |2 pages
Second Sophistic
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Second Temple
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Sed Festival
entry |1 pages
Seer: See Prophet and Prophecy
entry |1 pages
Sekhem
entry |1 pages
Sekhmet
entry |2 pages
Selkhet
entry |1 pages
Seneca
entry |1 pages
Sepphoris
entry |1 pages
Septuagint
entry |2 pages
Seth
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Sethianism: See Gnosticism
entry |1 pages
Seven Sleepers of Ephesos
entry |3 pages
Sexuality
entry |1 pages
Shai
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Shamash
entry |2 pages
Shammai
entry |1 pages
Shangu
entry |2 pages
Shapsh
entry |1 pages
Shariʿa
entry |2 pages
Shatammu
entry |1 pages
Shavuot
entry |2 pages
Shechem
entry |1 pages
Shema
entry |2 pages
Shemini Atzeret
entry |1 pages
Shenoute
entry |2 pages
Sheʾol
entry |1 pages
Shepherd of Hermas
entry |2 pages
Shiʿi
entry |1 pages
Shiʿur Qomah
entry |2 pages
Shofar
entry |1 pages
Shu
entry |1 pages
Shuʿayb
entry |1 pages
Shuʿubiyya
entry |2 pages
Sibyl
entry |1 pages
Sibylline Books
entry |2 pages
Sibylline Oracles
entry |1 pages
Sicarii
entry |2 pages
Sifra
entry |1 pages
Sifre Deuteronomy
entry |1 pages
Sifre Numbers
entry |2 pages
Silvester
entry |1 pages
Simeon
entry |1 pages
Simeon ben Lakish, Rabbi
entry |2 pages
Simeon Stylites
entry |1 pages
Simon Magus
entry |4 pages
Sin
entry |2 pages
Sîn
entry |2 pages
Sin Offering
entry |1 pages
Sinai
entry |2 pages
Sinai, MT
entry |1 pages
Sinuhe
entry |1 pages
Sippar
entry |1 pages
Sira of Ibn Ishaq
entry |1 pages
Sistrum
entry |2 pages
Siwa
entry |1 pages
Snake Gods
entry |2 pages
Snakes
entry |1 pages
Sobek
entry |2 pages
Socrates
entry |1 pages
Sokar
entry |2 pages
Sol
entry |1 pages
Solar Boat
entry |2 pages
Solomon
entry |2 pages
Solon
entry |1 pages
Son of God
entry |2 pages
Son of Man
entry |1 pages
Song of Songs
entry |2 pages
Sophia
entry |2 pages
Sophists
entry |1 pages
Sophokles
entry |1 pages
Sortes
entry |1 pages
Sotah
entry |2 pages
Soter
entry |2 pages
Sphinx
entry |1 pages
Standing Stone: See massevot
entry |1 pages
Stephen
entry |2 pages
Stoicism
entry |1 pages
Stylites
entry |2 pages
Sukkot
entry |1 pages
Sulis Minerva
entry |2 pages
Sumer
entry |1 pages
Sunna
entry |2 pages
Sunni
entry |1 pages
Suovetaurilia
entry |4 pages
Superstition
entry |1 pages
Supplicatio
entry |1 pages
Sura
entry |1 pages
Susanna
entry |1 pages
Symmachus
entry |1 pages
Sʾyn
entry |3 pages
Synagogue
entry |2 pages
Syncretism
entry |1 pages
Synoptic Problem
entry |2 pages
Syriac
letter |54 pages
T
entry |2 pages
Taʿanach
entry |2 pages
Tabernacle
entry |2 pages
Tablet of Destinies
entry |1 pages
Tacitus
entry |2 pages
Tafsir
entry |2 pages
Taimaʾ
entry |1 pages
Tale of the Eloquent Peasant
entry |2 pages
Tale of the Shipwrecked Sailor
entry |1 pages
Tale of Two Brothers
entry |2 pages
Talisman: See Amulet
entry |2 pages
Tallit
entry |2 pages
Talmud
entry |1 pages
Tammuz: See Dumuzi
entry |1 pages
Tamarisk
entry |2 pages
Tanhuma
entry |1 pages
Tanit
entry |2 pages
Tanna
entry |1 pages
Tansar
entry |1 pages
Tarfon, Rabbi
entry |2 pages
Targum
entry |2 pages
Tarsos
entry |1 pages
Tartaros
entry |1 pages
Tatian
entry |2 pages
Taurobolium
entry |2 pages
Tauroctony
entry |1 pages
Tawaret
entry |1 pages
Teacher of Righteousness
entry |2 pages
Tefillin
entry |2 pages
Tel Dan
entry |1 pages
Temenos
entry |2 pages
Temple
entry |1 pages
The Ancient Near East
entry |2 pages
Egypt
entry |2 pages
Judean
entry |3 pages
Greece
entry |2 pages
Rome
entry |2 pages
Christianity and Temples
entry |1 pages
Tent of Meeting
entry |1 pages
Teraphim
entry |1 pages
Tertullian
entry |1 pages
Testament of Adam
entry |1 pages
Testament of Job
entry |1 pages
Testament of Moses
entry |1 pages
Testaments of the Three Patriarchs
entry |1 pages
Testaments of the Twelve Patriarchs
entry |2 pages
Tetragrammaton
entry |1 pages
Thanksgiving Scroll
entry |1 pages
Thebes
entry |1 pages
Thecla
entry |2 pages
Theodicy
entry |2 pages
Theodore of Mopsuestia
entry |1 pages
Theodoret
entry |2 pages
Theodoric
entry |1 pages
Theodosian Code
entry |2 pages
Theodosius I
entry |1 pages
Theodotus
entry |2 pages
Theogony
entry |2 pages
Theophilos of Antioch
entry |1 pages
Theotokos
entry |1 pages
Therapeutae
entry |1 pages
Theseus
entry |1 pages
Thesmophoria
entry |1 pages
Thessalonians, Epistles to
entry |1 pages
Thetis
entry |2 pages
Theudas
entry |2 pages
Theurgy
entry |2 pages
Thiasos
entry |1 pages
Thomas
entry |1 pages
Thomas, Gospel of
entry |2 pages
Thoth
entry |1 pages
Thunder, Perfect Mind
entry |1 pages
Tiamat
entry |2 pages
Tiberias
entry |1 pages
Tinia
entry |2 pages
Tisha B'Av
entry |1 pages
Tithes
entry |1 pages
Titulus
entry |1 pages
Tobiad
entry |1 pages
Tobit
entry |2 pages
Tophet
entry |2 pages
Torah
entry |2 pages
Tosefta
entry |1 pages
Tower of Babel
entry |1 pages
Tree of Life
entry |1 pages
Trinity
entry |2 pages
Tripod
entry |1 pages
Triumph
entry |2 pages
Troy
entry |1 pages
True Cross
entry |1 pages
Tu B'Shevat
entry |1 pages
Twelve Tribes
entry |3 pages
Two Ladies
entry |2 pages
Tyche
letter |12 pages
U
entry |2 pages
Ugarit
entry |1 pages
ʿUlamaʾ
entry |1 pages
ʿUmar b. AL-Khattab
entry |1 pages
Umayyads
entry |5 pages
Underworld
entry |1 pages
Uni
entry |2 pages
Ur
entry |1 pages
Uraeus
entry |2 pages
Urartu
entry |2 pages
Urim and Thummim
entry |2 pages
Uruk
entry |1 pages
ʿUthman b. ʿAffan
entry |2 pages
ʿUthmanic Recension
letter |16 pages
V
entry |2 pages
Valentinians
entry |1 pages
Valerius Maximus
entry |1 pages
Valley of the Kings
entry |2 pages
Varro, Marcus Terentius
entry |1 pages
Vatican
entry |1 pages
Vegetarianism
entry |2 pages
Venus
entry |1 pages
Ver Sacrum
entry |1 pages
Vergil
entry |1 pages
Vesta
entry |2 pages
Vestal Virgins
entry |2 pages
Villa of the Mysteries
entry |2 pages
Virginity
entry |2 pages
Virtus
entry |1 pages
Visions
entry |1 pages
Vitium
entry |4 pages
Voces Magicae: See Magic
entry |3 pages
Votive Offering
entry |2 pages
Vow
entry |2 pages
Vulgate
letter |14 pages
W
entry |2 pages
Wadd
entry |1 pages
Wadjet
entry |2 pages
War Scroll
entry |1 pages
Warrior God
entry |2 pages
Weather God
entry |1 pages
Wennefer
entry |2 pages
Wisdom Literature
entry |2 pages
Wisdom of Solomon
entry |4 pages
Witchcraft
entry |1 pages
Women
entry |5 pages
Women's Religious Practices: An Overview
entry |2 pages
Women as Cult Leaders
letter |1 pages
X
entry |1 pages
Xoanon
letter |5 pages
Y
entry |1 pages
Yamm
entry |2 pages
Yannai
entry |1 pages
Yathrib: See Medina
entry |1 pages
Yavneh
entry |2 pages
Yeshiva
entry |1 pages
YHWH
entry |1 pages
YHWH's Anointed
entry |2 pages
Yohanan, Rabbi
entry |1 pages
Yom Kippur
letter |8 pages
Z
entry |1 pages
Zadok
entry |2 pages
Zakat
entry |1 pages
Zealots
entry |2 pages
Zechariah
entry |1 pages
Zephaniah
entry |1 pages
Zephaniah, Apocalypse of
entry |2 pages
Zerubbabel, Book of
entry |2 pages
Zeus
entry |1 pages
Ziggurat
entry |3 pages
Zion
entry |2 pages
Zoroastrianism