Title The Levant, crossroads of late antiquity : history, religion and archaeology = Le Levant, carrefour de l'antiquite tardive : histoire, religion et archeologie / editors/redacteurs, Ellen Bradshaw Aitken MDiv, ThD, John M. Fossey DesL, FRSC, FSA ; associates/adjoints, George Kellaris MA, Jeffrey Keiser MA ; assistants, Ryan Bailey MA, Ginette Gauvin BFA

Published Leiden : Brill, 2014

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Description 1 online resource Series McGill University monographs in classical archaeology and history, 0926-4639 ; volume 22 McGill University monographs in classical archaeology and history ; no. 22 Contents Part I. Literature and theology -- Hearing God's silence : Ignatius of Antiokheia and the Music of the spheres / Jeffrey Keiser -- The beauty of Jesus and his twin : redirected erotics in the Acts of Thomas / Catherine Playoust -- The varieties of religious communication in the rhetoric of Loukianos of Samosata / Ian H. Henderson -- "One drop of salvation from the House of Majesty" : universal revelation, human mission, and mythical geography in the Syriac Revelation of the Magi / Brent Landau -- On recycling texts and traditions : the Pseudo-Clementine recognitions and religious life in fourth-century Syria / Nicole Kelley -- The apostolic constitutions and the law / Marcie Lenk -- Space and ritual action : divinization and the construction of sacred place according to Dionysios Areopagites / Rebecca Coughlin -- The rhetorical topography of prayer in the mystical theology of Pseudo-Dionysios / Rachel Smith -- Part II. History and archaeology La Christianisation de l'Antiochene dans l'antiquite tardive / Pierre-Louis Gatier -- Was Edessa or Adiabene the gateway for the Christianization of Mesopotamia? / Amir Harrak -- From Kastron to Qas'r : Nessana between Byzantium and the Umayyad Caliphate ca. 602-689 : demographic and microeconomic aspects of Palaestina III in interregional perspective / Frank R. Trombley -- Palmyre, de la ville-centre commercial international a la ville-centre militaire et Chretien / Christiane Delplace -- Ras el Bassit and the late-antique archaeological landscape of coastal North Syria / Nicolas Beaudry -- Rome and the ghassanids : comparative perspectives on conversion, boundaries and power in Near Eastern borderlands / Greg Fisher -- Crossroads in the desert / John Wortley -- Unity and individuality : reflections on images of animals from South Syria in the Roman Imperial period / Felicia Meynersen -- Part III. The mosaics Management and preservation of mosaics in Syria : between theory and practice / Amr Al-Azm -- Barrer la route au Malin : une typologie des strategies utilisees : images et signes a fonctionnement securitaire sur support fixe dans l'antiquite tardive / Pauline Donceel-Voute -- Contribution de la mosaique Syrienne a l'iconographie Chretienne / Rafah Jwejati -- Thoughts on the meaning of a "decorative" early Christian mosaic / George Kellaris -- Summation Summary The Levant: Crossroads of Late Antiquity. History, Religion, and Archaeology explores through texts and material culture the religious and social developments in the Roman province of Syria during the 3rd through 6th centuries C.E., including the shaping of early Christianity Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index Notes Text chiefly in English, with some portions in French Print version record Subject HISTORY -- Ancient -- General. Antiquities Religion SUBJECT Syria -- History -- 333 B.C.-634 A.D. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85131699 Syria -- Religion Syria -- Church history Syria -- Antiquities. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85131693 Subject Syria Genre/Form History Church history Form Electronic book Author Aitken, Ellen Bradshaw, 1961-2014 Fossey, John M Kellaris, George Keiser, Jeffrey Bailey, Ryan Gauvin, Ginette ISBN 9004258272 9789004258273

Other Titles Levant Levant, carrefour de l'antiquite tardive

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