books.google.com - A a ~Near Eastern religiona (TM), along the lines of a ~Greek religiona (TM) or a ~Roman religiona (TM), 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 Hellenistic and Roman periods were, despite...http://books.google.com/books/about/The_Variety_of_Local_Religious_Life_in_t.html?id=KgVD3WL0vAsC&utm_source=gb-gplus-shareThe Variety of Local Religious Life in the Near East In the Hellenistic and Roman Periods