... of the imperial cult in Asia Minor. Finally, it demonstrates how the writer of Revelation vilifies this rich cultural context through metaphors of feasting and fornication in order to urge Christ adherents to maintain strict separation and purity and thus gain entrance into a postmortem utopian city, despite...

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...The chapter discusses the Roman emperor, the administration of the empire, and the imperial cult. It defines the terms “imperium,” and “imperator” and their changing definitions in the Augustan era. It considers the empire as a network of roads, laws, trading partners, and ethnicities, and also...

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...-Roman Near East before turning to a discussion of royal and dynastic cults and the establishment of the imperial cult. It then considers the significance of large-scale public buildings such as the temples sponsored by local dynasts against the backdrop of the peculiar set of ‘rules’ about public giving...

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... practices played a role in fostering awareness of a soldier’s place within a wider network of power and ritual, it also highlights the profound importance of local variations in these practices. The first section considers evidence for emperor worship/imperial cult. It attempts to assess the impact...

... of the commandments—should indeed be interpreted as an anti-Christian polemic on the part of the Rabbis. It suggests a different context for the interpretation of these texts, namely, the imperial cult and the imperial power, and it maintains that the Rabbi's need to accentuate certain religious stances...

... understanding the topographical developments of the sanctuary as much as the ritual changes. Financing and managing cult activity reflected both personal ambitions and political aspirations of the highest ranks of Greco-Roman society and culminated in the introduction of the imperial cult at Megalopolis...

... at the imperial cult and its continuing tradition beyond the Roman presence in North Africa. Cults operated at both provincial and municipal levels; for example the cult of the emperor at Carthage, provincial capital of Africa Proconsularis, existed alongside municipal flamines from various North...

... the construction of a new amphitheatre for the conduct of games associated with the imperial cult and as the likely site of public executions. Watermills drawing on the latest engineering technology were installed to allow the large-scale preparation of flour to supply local bakeries. Early Flavian investment also...

... imperial cult niches odeia At Miletus we saw a distinction between the workmen contracted to construct the arcades and the architect who designed them. Ancient building projects were usually dominated by architects, who directed a large number of subordinate workmen. Whereas the workmen sometimes...

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... imperial histories, rituals, propaganda, and images, especially as found in the imperial cult. The article also charts contemporary scholarly debates over the meaning of Rome in Revelation, particularly as scholars have examined rhetorics of gender and power. Scholars turn to the Roman...

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... to whom it was offered. Each role provided a different strategy for modeling the relationship between emperor and subjects. In imperial cult, the emperor was either beneficiary or recipient of the sacrifice. Sacrifices on his behalf represented him as a member of the human community but with a unique role...

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... as cult officials), and their visibility in the civic territory and religious ‘landscapes’ (through buildings, urban settings, or urban rituals). The last section discusses the changes Roman rule, and especially the establishment of the imperial cult, provoked in the religious lives...