Religion and the Self in Antiquity

Acknowledgments

A C K N O W L E D G M E N T S This book grew out of a conference on ‘‘The Religious Self in Antiquity’’ held at the Bloomington campus of Indiana University in September 2003. The conference received financial support from the President’s Arts and Humanities Initiative, established by President Myles Brand, and from the Robert A. and Sandra S. Borns Jewish Studies Program, then directed by Alvin Rosenfeld. Richard Miller, the chair of the Department of Religious Studies at the time, supported our e√orts, and sta√ members Jan Cobb, Patsy Ek, and Melissa Deckard helped to facilitate the conference . To all of these people and programs we express our gratitude. The papers in this volume benefited immensely from the rich intellectual exchange that took place at the conference. Numerous faculty and graduate students participated in the discussions, but we thank especially Robert Ford Campany , Natalie Dohrmann, Constance Furey, Alan Segal, and Benjamin Sommer for their formal presentations and responses. For assistance in the preparation of the book, we are grateful to Corrine Shirley, who did preliminary copyediting; to Michael Lundell and Robert Sloan of the Indiana University Press, who expressed interest in and support for the project from its beginning; to Betsy Garman, Elisabeth Marsh, and Jane Lyle of the Press, who guided the manuscript through publication; to Bradley Storin, who created the indexes; and to Elizabeth Yoder, whose copyediting expertise saved us from errors and infelicities. Despite the generous funding awards that we received, the original conference would not have taken place nor would it have been as congenial and stimulating as it was without the crucial support of our late colleague in the Department of English, Albert Wertheim. In gratitude we dedicate this book to his memory. Abbreviations of ancient and modern sources and the style of annotation follow Patrick H. Alexander et al., eds., The SBL Handbook of Style: For Ancient Near Eastern, Biblical, and Early Christian Studies (Peabody, Mass.: Hendrickson, 1999). Additional abbreviations of ancient sources follow Henry George Liddell and Robert Scott, with Henry Stuart Jones, eds., A Greek-English Lexicon (9th ed.; Oxford : Clarendon, 1968). R E L I G I O N A N D T H E S E L F I N A N T I Q U I T Y ...