This is a lively portrayal of the ways in which different ethnic, religious and linguistic communities co-existed and conflicted in the Roman Near East in the three centuries between the conversion of the Emperor Constantine to Christianity in 312 and the beginning of Muhammad's preaching in about 610.
This is a lively portrayal of the ways in which different ethnic, religious and linguistic communities co-existed and conflicted in the Roman Near East in the three centuries between the conversion of the Emperor Constantine to Christianity in 312 and the beginning of Muhammad's preaching in about 610.
Fellow of All Souls College, Oxford, 1958-64 Fellow and Tutor in Ancient History, The Queen's College, Oxford, 1964-76 Professor of Ancient History, University College London, 1976-84 Camden Professor of Ancient History, University of Oxford, 1984-2002 Leverhulme Emeritus Fellow, 2002-4 Sather Professor of Classical Literature, University of California, Berkeley, 2002-3 Fellow of the British Academy
Inhaltsangabe
* PROLOGUE: EXCAVATING THE BIBLE * I. A GREEK CHRISTIAN WORLD? * 1: Introduction: Christians and Jews in Gerasa * 2: The Late Roman Near East: Time and Space * 3: . Aramaic-speaking Pagans in the Christian Period? * 4: A Greek World, Pagan and Christian * 5: Greek Literary Culture in the Near East * 6: Greek Christianity in its Local Context: Documentary Evidence * II. JEWS AND SAMARITANS IN A GREEK CHRISTIAN WORLD * 1: Introduction: Greek in Palestine * 2: Religious and Ethnic Communities in Palestine: Co-existence and Conflict * 3: Samaritan Religion and Culture * 4: Jews and Judaism in Palestine * 5: The Jewish Diaspora: (a) The Mediterranean Coast and the Orontes Valley (b) From Arabia to Mesopotamia * III. SYRIANS AND SARACENS: SURYOYE AND TAYYOYE * 1: Introduction: Sixth-century Divisions * 2: The Background: the Third and Fourth Centuries * 3: Syriac and Greek, 373-485 * 4: Syriac, 373-485: Inscriptions and Manuscripts * 5: Syriac Writing before 485 * 6: The Flowering of Syriac from 485 * 7: Saracens or Tayyoye * EPILOGUE: CONNECTING TO MUHAMMAD?
* PROLOGUE: EXCAVATING THE BIBLE * I. A GREEK CHRISTIAN WORLD? * 1: Introduction: Christians and Jews in Gerasa * 2: The Late Roman Near East: Time and Space * 3: . Aramaic-speaking Pagans in the Christian Period? * 4: A Greek World, Pagan and Christian * 5: Greek Literary Culture in the Near East * 6: Greek Christianity in its Local Context: Documentary Evidence * II. JEWS AND SAMARITANS IN A GREEK CHRISTIAN WORLD * 1: Introduction: Greek in Palestine * 2: Religious and Ethnic Communities in Palestine: Co-existence and Conflict * 3: Samaritan Religion and Culture * 4: Jews and Judaism in Palestine * 5: The Jewish Diaspora: (a) The Mediterranean Coast and the Orontes Valley (b) From Arabia to Mesopotamia * III. SYRIANS AND SARACENS: SURYOYE AND TAYYOYE * 1: Introduction: Sixth-century Divisions * 2: The Background: the Third and Fourth Centuries * 3: Syriac and Greek, 373-485 * 4: Syriac, 373-485: Inscriptions and Manuscripts * 5: Syriac Writing before 485 * 6: The Flowering of Syriac from 485 * 7: Saracens or Tayyoye * EPILOGUE: CONNECTING TO MUHAMMAD?
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