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Religion, Society and Culture at Dura-Europos (2016)
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Kaizer, T. (Ed.). (2016). Religion, Society and Culture at Dura-Europos. Cambridge University Press. https://doi.org/10.1017/9781316403488.002

The small fortress town of Dura-Europos is known, since the great Russian scholar Mikhaïl Rostovtzeff, as the ‘Pompeii of the Syrian desert’. Situated on the Middle Euphrates river, it was founded as a Macedonian colony by one of the successors to Al... Read More about Religion, Society and Culture at Dura-Europos.

Kingdoms and Principalities in the Roman Near East. (2010)
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Kaizer, T., & Facella, M. (Eds.). (2010). Kingdoms and Principalities in the Roman Near East. Franz Steiner Verlag

This collection of studies is devoted to the multifarious relations that the Roman empire maintained with the kings and princes of the Near Eastern lands. Building on an outlook on their royal and princely realms from both the Roman and the Parthian... Read More about Kingdoms and Principalities in the Roman Near East..

The Variety of Local Religious Life in the Near East in the Hellenistic and Roman Periods. (2008)
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Kaizer, T. (Ed.). (2008). The Variety of Local Religious Life in the Near East in the Hellenistic and Roman Periods. Brill Academic Publishers

A ‘Near Eastern religion’, along the lines of ‘Greek religion’ or ‘Roman religion’, is hard to distinguish for the Classical period, since the religious cultures of the many cities, villages and regions that constituted the Near East in the Hellenist... Read More about The Variety of Local Religious Life in the Near East in the Hellenistic and Roman Periods..

The Religious Life of Palmyra. A Study of the Social Patterns of Worship in the Roman Period (2002)
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Kaizer, T. (2002). The Religious Life of Palmyra. A Study of the Social Patterns of Worship in the Roman Period. Franz Steiner Verlag

This study of the social patterns of worship in Palmyra (Syria) investigates how aspects of the city’s religious life contributed to the way in which its society was built up and worked. The validity of the model of ‘civic’ vs ‘tribal’ forms of worsh... Read More about The Religious Life of Palmyra. A Study of the Social Patterns of Worship in the Roman Period.