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Informationen zum Autor Ted Kaizer is Professor in Roman Culture and History at Durham University. He is the author of The Religious Life of Palmyra and has edited or co-edited several volumes on the social and religious history of the Roman Near East. Most recently he has written the historiographical introductions for two volumes on Dura-Europos in the Bibliotheca Cumontiana, Scripta Minora VII and Scripta Maiora XI. Klappentext A COMPANION TO THE HELLENISTIC AND ROMAN NEAR EAST In A Companion to the Hellenistic and Roman Near East , distinguished academic and author Dr. Ted Kaizer delivers a timely and comprehensively structured handbook that brings together leading scholars from several academic traditions and disciplines. The book is divided into sections that organize the interdisciplinary source material by source, region, and theme. The volume provides broad regional and sub-regional variety in the cross-disciplinary source material that compensates for the destruction of monuments in the region that has deprived researchers of the ability to study these historical stages in person. It will also serve to integrate the study of the Near East in the Hellenistic and Roman periods within the traditional undergraduate teaching syllabus. The book features experts from around the world, including the USA, Canada, the UK, France, Germany, and many more countries, who write from several perspectives and disciplines, such as Ancient History, Archaeology, Art History, Epigraphy, Numismatics, and Oriental Studies. Perfect for undergraduate, graduate, and PhD Classics, Archaeology, and History students taking courses on the Classical Levant, A Companion to the Hellenistic and Roman Near East is also an indispensable guide for scholars studying the Near East and anyone interested in the history of this period. Inhaltsverzeichnis Preface xii List of Figures xiii List of Maps xxi Contributor Biographies xxii Abbreviations xxviii Maps xxx 1 Introduction 1 Ted Kaizer 2 Historical Narrative 9 Maurice Sartre Part I Sources 19 3 Geographical Sources and Documents 21 Gillian Ramsey 4 Berossos between Greek and Babylonian Culture 34 Johannes H. Haubold 5 Lucian, Philo of Byblos, and Ps.-Meliton 44 J.L. Lightfoot 6 Jewish Sources 54 C.T. Robert Hayward 7 Josephus 66 Jan Willem van Henten 8 Syriac Sources 76 Alberto Rigolio 9 Greek and Latin Inscriptions 86 Pierre-Louis Gatier 10 Ancient North Arabian 99 Ahmad al-Jallad 11 Parchments and Papyri 105 Kimberley Czajkowski 12 Statues, Reliefs, and Paintings: Hellenism versus Local Culture 114 Lucinda Dirven 13 Archaeology and Architecture 126 Rubina Raja 14 Numismatics 135 Kevin Butcher 15 Air-Photography 154 David L. Kennedy 16 Mosaics 177 Janine Balty Part II Regions, Places, and Peoples 189 17 The Tetrapolis and Other City Foundations 191 Apostolos Bousdroukis 18 The Decapolis 213 Achim Lichtenberger 19 Commagene 223 Margherita Facella 20 Hellenistic and Roman Phoenicia 240 Michael Sommer 21 Lebanon 249 Julien Aliquot 22 Judaea, the Palestinian Coast, the Galilee, Idumaea, and Samaria 259 Yaron Z. Eliav 23 The Nabataeans 272 David F. Graf 24 Palmyra 284 Jean-Baptiste Yon 25 Dura-Europos 295 J.A. Baird 26 The Middle Euphrates 305 P.M. Edwell 27 The Parthian and Sasanian Near East (including Hatra, Edessa, and the Characene) 316 Tommaso Gnoli <...
