Description
Book SynopsisOffers a discussion of Roman interactions with Egyptian religion, including material from inside and outside Egypt, and locates the development of an interpretative consensus in early 20th-century scholarship within the wider context of empire and colonization at the time.
Table of Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Chapter 1: Introduction
- PART I: CONTEXTS
- Chapter 2 Bastards and the Temple: Legitimacy and Rhetoric in Priestly Petitions
- Chapter 3 Crocodile Tears: A Rhetoric of Loss and of Chaos
- Chapter 4 “No one can claim the priestly land”:
- Land, disputes, and a new interpretation
- PART II: BARKING ANUBIS
- Chapter 5 Motivations and Confiscations: Religious control in context
- Chapter 6 Unforeseen Consequences: Confiscation in practice
- Chapter 7 “Tear the monument of such a monster to pieces”:
- Creating a modern confiscation
- Appendix: P.Tebt. 2.302: Text(s) and Translation
- Bibliography
- Index of sources
- General index
