Religion in the Ancient Mediterranean World

[01] Talking About Ancient Religious Cultures [02] What is Religion? [03] Early Prehistoric Religion [04] Prehistoric Religion: The Neolithic Era [05] Egypt: A Unique Religious Culture [06] Egyptian Creation Stories and Their Meaning [07] Egyptian Pantheon [08] Egyptian Myths of Kingship [09] Egyptian Myths of the Underworld [10] Egypt: The Power of Goddesses [11] Egypt: Religion in Everyday Life [12] Egypt: The Beginning of Wisdom [13] Mesopotamia: The Land Between the Rivers [14] Mesopotamia: Stories of Creation [15] Mesopotamia: Inanna the Goddess [16] Mesopotamia: Gilgamesh the King [17] Mesopotamia: The Search for Eternal Life [18] Mesopotamia: The Great Flood [19] Ancient Concepts of the Divine [20] Gods of Syria-Palestine [21] Israel's Ancestral History [22] Israel's National History [23] Prophecy in the Ancient Near East [24] Early Prophecy in Israel [25] Classical Israelite Prophecy [26] Israel's Great Crisis [27] Syria-Palestine: The Problem of Evil [28] Early Aegean Civilizations [29] Religious Culture in the Iliad and the Odyssey [30] Religious Culture in Archaic Greece [31] Greece: How Things Came to Be [32] Greece: The Goddess [33] Classical Era in Greece [34] Greece: Philosophy as Religion [35] Religious Culture in the Hellenistic World [36] Mystery Religions in the Hellenistic World [37] Mystery Religions from the East [38] Roman Religious Culture Before the Empire [39] Rome: Saviors and Divine Men [40] Rome: Divination, Astrology, and Magic [41] Rome: Critics and Charlatans [42] Jesus of Nazareth as a Figure in History [43] Creating Jesus Communities [44] Living and Dying for the God(s) [45] Women's Religious Roles in the Early Empire [46] Jesus Movement in the Greco-Roman World [47] Death and Rebirth of the Old Gods [48] Conclusion: Persisting Ideas and Yearnings