Religion, language and community in the Roman Near East : Constantine to Muhammad / Fergus Millar.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Millar, Fergus, author.

Series:

Schweich lectures ; 2010.

Schweich lectures on the British Academy ; 2010

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Middle East--Religion.

Middle East.

Religion.

Middle East--Religious life and customs.

Middle East--Civilization--To 622.

Civilization.

Middle East Region.

Physical Description:

xx, 177 pages : map ; 24 cm.

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2013.

Summary:

This title portrays the ways in which different ethnic, religious and linguistic communities co-existed and conflicted in the Roman Near East in the 3 centuries between the conversion of the Emperor Constantine to Christianity in 312 and the beginning of Muhammad's preaching in about 610.

Contents:

I A Greek Christian World? 13

Introduction: Christians and Jews in Gerasa 13

The Late Roman Near East: Space and Time 15

Aramaic-speaking Pagans in the Christian Period? 21

A Greek World, Pagan and Christian 27

Greek Literary Culture in the Near East 32

Greek Culture in the Near East in its Local Context: Documentary Evidence 40

II Jews and Samaritans in a Greek Christian World 54

Introduction: Greek in Palestine 54

Religious and Ethnic Communities in Palestine: Co-existence and Conflict 65

Samaritan Religion and Culture 74

Jews and Judaism in Palestine 78

The Jewish Diaspora in the Near East 93

The Mediterranean Coast and the Orontes Valley 95

From Arabia to Mesopotamia 99

III Syrians and Saracens: Suryoye and Tayyoye 106

Introduction: Sixth-Century Divisions 106

The Background: the Third and Fourth Centuries 113

Syriac and Greek, 373-485 117

Syriac, 373-485: Inscriptions and Manuscripts 121

Syriac Writing before 485 125

The Flowering of Syriac from 485 131

Saracens or Tayyoye 138.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

ISBN:

9780197265574

019726557X

OCLC:

873746051