sources: SRC_KAIZER_PALMYRA

The sources grounding every entity classification and relationship in the database (live count on the home page and in v_release_metrics). Primary texts include the Pyramid Texts (c. 2375 BCE), Homer, Hesiod, Herodotus, the Masoretic Text, Nag Hammadi corpus, Avesta, Ginza Rba, the Chaldean Oracles, the Corpus Hermeticum, Quran, and more. Secondary scholarship covers standard academic monographs for each tradition.

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SRC_KAIZER_PALMYRA Ted Kaizer, The Religious Life of Palmyra: A Study of the Social Patterns of Worship in the Roman Period (Oriens et Occidens 4; Franz Steiner Verlag, Stuttgart, 2002)   secondary scholarship Comprehensive study of religious practice in Palmyra (ancient Tadmor, modern Syria) during the Roman period (1st–3rd centuries CE), based on the rich Palmyrene inscriptional corpus (200+ religious texts in Aramaic and Greek), the sculptural and numismatic evidence, and the temple programs. Chapter 3 covers Baalshamin, who had one of Palmyra's major temple complexes (the Baalshamin temple, built 131 CE, well-preserved until its destruction by ISIL in 2015); Chapter 4 covers Bel and the triadic grouping; Chapter 9 covers the full range of divine beings in the Palmyrene tradition. Kaizer analyzes Baalshamin's relationship with Zeus in the Greek-Palmyrene bilingual inscriptions (many of which render Baalshamin simply as "Zeus"), the festival calendar, and the social organization of the priestly colleges. Cited primarily for ENT_ARA_BAALSHAMIN and secondarily for the Aramean/Palmyrene context of all three entities.

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