By John Bodel,Saul M. Olyan
- Advances our knowing of loved ones and familial faith, instead of state-sponsored or civic temple cults
- Reconstructs household and relatives non secular practices in Egypt, Greece, Rome, Israel, Mesopotamia, Ugarit, Emar, and Philistia
- Explores many family rituals, resembling delivering for ancestral spirits, and petitioning of a household's buyer deities or of spirits linked to the home itself
- Examines lifecycle rituals – from being pregnant and delivery to adulthood, previous age, demise, and beyond
- Looks at spiritual practices with regards to the family either in the domestic itself and different areas, corresponding to at extramural tombs and native sanctuaries
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