The first book to explore the religious dimensions of the family and the household in ancient Mediterranean and West Asian antiquity.

Table of Contents

• List of Figures
• Notes on Contributors
• Series Editor's Preface
• Acknowledgments
• Map
• 1 Introduction John Bodel; Saul M. Olyan
• 2 Theorizing the Religion of Ancient Households and Families Stanley K. Stowers
• 3 Family Religion in Second Millennium West Asia (Mesopotamia, Emar, Nuzi) Karel van der Toorn
• 4 The Integration of Household and Community Religion in Ancient Syria Daniel E. Fleming
• 5 Family, Household, and Local Religion at Late Bronze Age Ugarit Theodore J. Lewis
• 6 Family Religion in Ancient Israel and its Surroundings Rainer Albertz
• 7 Family Religion in Israel and the Wider Levant of the First Millennium bce Saul M. Olyan
• 8 Household Religion, Family Religion, and Women's Religion in Ancient Israel Susan Ackerman
• 9 Ashdod and the Material Remains of Domestic Cults in the Philistine Coastal Plain Rüdiger Schmitt
• 10 Household Religion in Ancient Egypt Robert K. Ritner
• 11 Household and Domestic Religion in Ancient Egypt Barbara S. Lesko
• 12 Household Religion in Ancient Greece Christopher A. Faraone
• 13 Family Matters: Domestic Religion in Classical Greece Deborah Boedeker
• 14 Cicero's Minerva, Penates, and the Mother of the Lares: An Outline of Roman Domestic Religion John Bodel
• 15 Comparative Perspectives John Bodel; Saul M. Olyan
• Bibliography