The Students of the Ancient Near East Symposium: Temples and Ritual in Antiquity

The Students of the Ancient Near East Symposium: Temples and Ritual in Antiquity

Friday, November 7, 2008
Wilkinson Student Center, Brigham Young University, Provo, Utah

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Papers presented include:

• Ancient Israel Early Christianity Egypt
• The Maccabean Martyrs as a Temple Sacrifice
• The Mysteries in Pauline Christianity
• The Dedication of War Booty to the Temple in Egyptian Literature
• The Role of Scent in the Rituals of Ancient Israel
• Christian Asceticism: The Body as a Temple: Biblical Origins
• The Microcosmic Egyptian Temple
• Two High Priesthoods? Evidence for Changes in the Priesthood from First to Second Temple
• The Chrism in Early Christianity
• An Odor of Sanctity: The Iconography, Magic, and Liturgy of Egyptian Incense
• The Paradise Garden and Messianic Age Imagery in the 5th to 7th Century Church Floor Mosaics of Jordan
• Rituals of the Egyptian Temple: An Orientation
• An Expanded View of the Israelite Scapegoat
• The Deification of Romulus
• Philistine Ritual Artifacts
• Josephus and the Temple
• The Treatment of Temples in Plato's Republic and Laws
• The Cultural Context of Nephite Apostasy
• Covenants and Simile Curses
• Emperor as God: Roman Imperial Cult Worship & Implications for Early Christians
• Ancient Southeast Asian Temples
• Kingship Initiation Motifs in Ancient Israel
• The Eleusinian Mysteries: Greatest Conquest of Demetrios Poliorketes
• The Samaritan Temple and Priesthood