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Zusatztext The author is to be congratulated on her diligence and perceptive analysis of the older and recent excavations, as well as on her attempt to make sense of the complexities of the evidence. The comprehensive discussion of the historiography of this most famous site, and the place of the famous treasure within it, is a fascinating account of lost opportunities and of the valiant attempt to rescue the evidence from the 1950s from those members of the excavation team who are still alive. Informationen zum Autor Robert M. Frakes held an Alexander von Humboldt Research Fellowship at the Leopold Wenger Institute for Ancient Legal History and Papyrus Research at the University of Munich periodically from 1995-2007. He taught in the History Department at Clarion University from 1991-2017, and since 2017 is Dean of Arts & Humanities (and Professor of History) at California State University, Bakersfield. Klappentext The Collatio was a Roman law book compiled at the end of the fourth century by an anonymous editor who wanted to show the similarity between laws of the Hebrew Bible and Roman law. This book presents a five chapter historical study of the Collatio with a revised Latin text, new English translation, and a historical and juristic commentary. Zusammenfassung The Collatio was a Roman law book compiled at the end of the fourth century by an anonymous editor who wanted to show the similarity between laws of the Hebrew Bible and Roman law. This book presents a five chapter historical study of the Collatio with a revised Latin text, new English translation, and a historical and juristic commentary. Inhaltsverzeichnis Abbreviations Introduction Part 1: The Collator One: Approaching the Collator s World 1: Diocletian s Inheritance 2: Religion, Law, and Politics under the House of Constantine 3: Church and State in the Mid-Fourth Century 4: Law, Religion, and the Age of Theodosius I 5: Conclusion: Roman Law after the Fall of the West Two: Dating the Work 1: Medieval and Early Modern Encounters with the collatio 2: Internal Evidence 3: Closing the Window 4: Conclusion: A Single Collator Three: The Collator s Sources 1: Jurists and the Laws 2: The Collator s Bible 3: Conclusion: The Collator s Library Four: The Collator s Method 1: Structure 2: Using Texts 3: Conclusion: The Collator at Work Five: The Collator s Identity and Purpose 1: Questions of Identity 2: The Religious Angle 3: The Collator s Audience and Purpose 4: Conclusion: The Christian Collator Part 2: The Work (Collatio Legum Mosaicarum et Romanarum) sigla Latin Text English Translation Commentary Tables Works Cited ...
