UID:
edocfu_9960945919502883
Umfang:
1 online resource (549 pages) :
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illustrations, maps
ISBN:
979-88-908724-2-5
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1-4696-0321-7
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0-8078-7665-8
Serie:
Studies in the history of Greece and Rome
Inhalt:
Presents essays that contribute to our understanding of the impact of Rome on the peoples, cultures, and religions of the eastern Mediterranean, and the extent to which Graeco-Roman culture acted as a vehicle for the self-expression of indigenous cultures. This book offers English translations of passages in Greek, Latin, and Semitic languages.
Anmerkung:
Description based upon print version of record.
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Contents; Preface; Introduction; Abbreviations; Part I. The Hellenistic World and Rome; 1. The Problem of Hellenistic Syria; 2. The Phoenician Cities: A Case-Study of Hellenisation; 3. Hellenistic History in a Near Eastern Perspective:The Book of Daniel; 4. The Background to the Maccabean Revolution: Reflections on Martin Hengel's ''Judaism and Hellenism''; 5. Polybius between Greece and Rome; 6. The Greek City in the Roman Period; Part II. Rome and the East; 7. Reflections on the Trials of Jesus; 8. The Roman Coloniae of the Near East: A Study of Cultural Relations
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9. Latin in the Epigraphy of the Roman Near East 10. Paul of Samosata, Zenobia, and Aurelian: The Church, Local Culture,and Political Allegiance in Third-Century Syria; 11. Caravan Cities: The Roman Near East and Long-Distance Trade by Land; 12. Looking East from the Classical World: Colonialism, Culture, and Trade from Alexander the Great to Shapur I; Part III. Jews and Others; 13. Porphyry: Ethnicity, Language, and Alien Wisdom; 14. Hagar,
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English
Weitere Ausg.:
ISBN 0-8078-5693-2
Weitere Ausg.:
ISBN 0-8078-3030-5
Sprache:
Englisch
