The Levant, crossroads of late antiquity : history, religion and archaeology = Le Levant, carrefour de l'antiquité tardive : histoire, religion et archéologie /
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Language: English
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Leiden :
Brill,
2014.
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McGill University monographs in classical archaeology and history ;
22.
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Call Number: DS96.2 .L48 2014
Table of 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.