Structure

IDD will have two parts: Part I (hereafter called IDD), while not excluding earlier periods, will focus on the pre-Hellenistic periods of the first millennium BCE. It will come as a three-volume dictionary, comprising introductory essays, dictionary entries, and plates, bibliography, and indices.


IDD I/1 A/1. Regional lead articles
A/2. Issues of methodology and procedure
Lemma definition and structure
Visual identities and names: icon types, role labels, individually-named deities
Visualising panthea
The status of images and visual representation in the study of religions of the 'Biblical world'

IDD I/2
Preface
List of contributors
Abbreviations
List of entries
General introduction and basic concepts
Dictionary entries (ca. 280 articles)

IDD I/3
Plates, bibliography, indices

IDD I is scheduled to be completed in 2009.
Part II, co-ordinated by Prof. Fritz Graf, Ohio State University (Columbus, OH), will cover the Hellenistic and Roman periods.

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A Research Project of the History of Religions Chair of the University of Zurich, Switzerland, in co-operation with Brill Academic Publishers, Leiden, Netherlands