The Levant: crossroads of late antiquity : history, religion and archaeology = Le Levant, carrefour de l'antiquite tardive : histoire, religion et archeologie

by Aitken, Ellen Bradshaw Fossey, John M.

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Title Statements

Full title :The Levant : crossroads of late antiquity : history, religion and archaeology = Le Levant, carrefour de l'antiquite tardive : histoire, religion et archeologie / edited by Ellen Bradshaw Aitken and John M. Fossey.

Edition Statements

Publication Date:2013.

Publication Statements

Publisher(s):Brill
Place of Publication:Leiden
Language:eng
Publication Date:2013.

The Physical Object

Description:xxx, 487 pages : : illustrations, maps ; : 24 cm.

Edition Identifiers

ISBN:9789004258266, 9004258264
oclc:ocn889654167
LC Classification:DS96.2
Dewey Decimal:939.43

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 Um…

Subjects

333 B.C.-634 A.D Antiquities Church history History RELIGION Syria Syria -- Antiquities Syria -- Church history Syria -- History -- 333 B.C.-634 A.D Syria -- Religion Syrie -- Antiquités Syrie -- Histoire -- 333 av. J.-C.-634