Sacred Words :
BILHARTZ, Terry D
Sacred Words : a source book on the great religions of the world / Terry D. Bilhartz - Boston : McGraw- Hill, c2006. - x, 424p. : ill. (some col.), maps ; 25cm.
Includes bibliography and index
A prevalent view in the current scholarship on ancient religions holds that state religion was primarily performed and transmitted in oral forms, whereas writing came to be associated with secret, private and marginal cults, especially in the Greek world. In Roman times, religions would have become more and more bookish, starting with the Sibylline books and the Annales Maximi of the Roman priests and culminating in the canonical gospels of the Christians.
0-7-290098-9
Greece -- Religion -- Congresses
200 BIL
Sacred Words : a source book on the great religions of the world / Terry D. Bilhartz - Boston : McGraw- Hill, c2006. - x, 424p. : ill. (some col.), maps ; 25cm.
Includes bibliography and index
A prevalent view in the current scholarship on ancient religions holds that state religion was primarily performed and transmitted in oral forms, whereas writing came to be associated with secret, private and marginal cults, especially in the Greek world. In Roman times, religions would have become more and more bookish, starting with the Sibylline books and the Annales Maximi of the Roman priests and culminating in the canonical gospels of the Christians.
0-7-290098-9
Greece -- Religion -- Congresses
200 BIL