TY - JOUR
TI - The Rules of the House (of Gods): Administrative and Ritual Norms of the Palmyrene Temples
AU - Kubiak-Schneider, Aleksandra
TI - The Rules of the House (of Gods): Administrative and Ritual Norms of the Palmyrene Temples
AB - The epigraphic record from Palmyra brings light on the organization of the temples: personnel, management of feasts, economy and on the ritual practices towards certain deities like Allat and Shai ‘al-Qaum. These texts were previously called in the research literature “sacred laws”and what the scholarly debate nowadays labels with the term “ritual norms.”The aim of this paper, divided on the temple economy and personnel, and ritual behavior, is to understand through the scraps of information the administration of the Palmyrene temples and processes which shaped the life in the places of worship.
VL - 2023
IS - Volume 30
PY - 2023
SN - 1897-3426
C1 - 2084-3909
SP - 293
EP - 306
DO - 10.4467/20800909EL.23.010.17327
UR - https://ejournals.eu/en/journal/electrum/article/the-rules-of-the-house-of-gods-administrative-and-ritual-norms-of-the-palmyrene-temples
KW - administration
KW - temples
KW - cultic personnel
KW - rituals
KW - norms
KW - Palmyra
KW - Roman Near East
KW - Aramaic