From Hellenism to Islam : cultural and linguistic change in the Roman Near East / edited by Hannah M. Cotton [and others].

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Cotton, Hannah, editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Inscriptions--Middle East.

Inscriptions.

Writing--Middle East--History.

Writing.

Middle East--Civilization--To 622.

Middle East.

Middle East--Languages.

Middle East--Religion.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xxx, 481 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).

Place of Publication:

Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2009.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

The eight hundred years between the first Roman conquests and the conquest of Islam saw a rich, constantly shifting blend of languages and writing systems, legal structures, religious practices and beliefs in the Near East. While the different ethnic groups and cultural forms often clashed with each other, adaptation was as much a characteristic of the region as conflict. This volume, emphasizing the inscriptions in many languages from the Near East, brings together mutually informative studies by scholars in diverse fields. Together, they reveal how the different languages, peoples and cultures interacted, competed with, tried to ignore or were influenced by each other, and how their relationships evolved over time. It will be of great value to those interested in Greek and Roman history, Jewish history and Near Eastern studies.

Contents:

Introduction : documentary evidence, social realities and the history of language / Fergus Millar

The presence, role and significance of Latin in the epigraphy and culture of the Roman Near East / Werner Eck

Latin in cities of the Roman Near East / Benjamin Isaac

Euergetism in Josephus and the epigraphic culture of first-century Jerusalem / Seth Schwartz

Legal and social status of threptoi and related categories in narrative and documentary sources / Marijana Ricl

Ritual performances of divine justice : the epigraphy of confession, atonement, and exaltation in Roman Asia Minor / Angelos Chaniotis

Continuity of Nabataean law in the Petra papyri : a methodological exercise / Hannah M. Cotton

"Languages" and religion in second- to fourth-century Palestine : in search of the impact of Rome / Nicole Belayche

The epigraphic habit and the Jewish diasporas of Asia Minor and Syria / Walter Ameling

Religion and language in Dura-Europos / Ted Kaizer

On the margins of culture : the practice of transcription in the ancient world / Jonathan J. Price, Shlomo Naeh

Edessene Syriac inscriptions in late antique Syria / Sebastian Brock

Samaritan writing and writings / Dan Barag

The Jewish magical tradition from late antique Palestine to the Cairo Genizah / Gideon Bohak

The Nabataean connection of the Benei Ḥezir / Ernst Axel Knauf

Greek inscriptions in transition from the Byzantine to the early Islamic period / Leah Di Segni

Arab kings, Arab tribes and the beginnings of Arab historical memory in late Roman epigraphy / Robert G. Hoyland

Greek, Coptic and the "language of the Hijra" : the rise and decline of the Coptic language in late antique and medieval Egypt / Tonio Sebastian Richter

"What remains behind" : Hellenism and Romanitas in Christian Egypt after the Arab conquest / Arietta Papaconstantinou.

Notes:

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015).

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

1-107-19855-0

1-107-40395-2

1-282-38632-8

0-511-64067-6

9786612386329

0-511-64135-4

0-511-63891-4

0-511-63784-5

0-511-63999-6

OCLC:

609846067