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9780521875813

From Hellenism to Islam: Cultural and Linguistic Change in the Roman Near East

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    9780521875813

  • ISBN10:

    0521875811

  • Edition: 1st
  • Format: Hardcover
  • Copyright: 2009-09-28
  • Publisher: Cambridge University Press

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Summary

The eight hundred years between the first Roman conquests and the conquest of Islam saw a rich, constantly shifting blend of languages and writing systems, legal structures, religious practices and beliefs in the Near East. While the different ethnic groups and cultural forms often clashed with each other, adaptation was as much a characteristic of the region as conflict. This volume, emphasising the inscriptions in many languages from the Near East, brings together mutually informative studies by scholars in diverse fields. Together, they reveal how the different languages, peoples and cultures interacted, competed with, tried to ignore or were influenced by each other, and how their relationships evolved over time. It will be of great value to those interested in Greek and Roman history, Jewish history and Near Eastern studies.

Table of Contents

List of figuresp. viii
List of tablesp. ix
List of contributorsp. x
Prefacep. xiv
List of abbreviationsp. xxi
Introduction: documentary evidence, social realitiesand the history of language Fergus Millarp. 1
The Language Of Power: Latin In The Roman Near Eastp. 13
The presence, role and significance of Latin in theepigraphy and culture of the Roman Near Eastp. 15
Latin in cities of the Roman Near Eastp. 43
Social And Legal Institutions As Reflected In The Documentary Evidencep. 73
Euergetism in Josephus and the epigraphic culture of first-century Jerusalemp. 75
Legal and social status of threptoi and related categoriesin narrative and documentary sourcesp. 93
Ritual performances of divine justice: the epigraphy of confession, atonement, and exaltation in RomanAsia Minorp. 115
Continuity of Nabataean law in the Petra papyri: A methodological exercisep. 154
The Epigraphic Language Of Religionp. 175
'Languages' and religion in second- to fourth-century Palestine: In search of the impact of Romep. 177
The epigraphic habit and the Jewish Diasporas ofAsia Minor and Syriap. 203
Religion and language in Dura-Europosp. 235
Linguistic Metamorphoses And Continuity Of Culturesp. 255
On the margins of culture: the practice of transcriptionin the ancient worldp. 257
Edessene Syriac inscriptions in late antique Syriap. 289
Samaritan writing and writingsp. 303
The Jewish magical tradition from late antiquePalestine to the Cairo Genizahp. 324
Greek Into Arabicp. 343
The Nabataean connection of the Benei Hezirp. 345
Greek inscriptions in transition from the Byzantine tothe early Islamic periodp. 352
Arab kings, Arab tribes and the beginnings of Arab historical memory in late Roman epigraphyp. 374
Greek, Coptic and the 'language of the Hijra': the rise and decline of the Coptic language in late antique and medieval Egyptp. 401
'What remains behind': Hellenism and Romanitas in Christian Egypt after the Arab conquestp. 447
Indexp. 467
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