Introduction / Sarah Iles Johnston
ENCOUNTERING ANCIENT RELIGIONS
What is ancient Mediterranean religion? / Fritz Graf
Monotheism and polytheism / Jan Assmann
Ritual / Jan Bremmer
Myth / Fritz Graf
Cosmology: time and history / John J. Collins
Pollution, sin, atonement, salvation / Harold W. Attridge
Law and ethics / Eckart Otto
Mysteries / Sarah Iles Johnston
Religions in contact / John Scheid
Writing and religion / Mary Beard
Magic / Sarah Iles Johnston
HISTORIES
Egypt / Jan Assmann, David Frankfurter
Mesopotamia / Paul-Alain Beaulieu
Syria and Canaan / David P. Wright
Israel / John J. Collins
Anatolia: Hittites / David P. Wright
Iran / William Malandra, Michael Stausberg
Minoan and Mycenaean civilizations / Nanno Marinatos
Greece / Jon Mikalson
Etruria / Olivier de Cazanove
Rome / John North
Early Christianity / Harold Attridge.