From Hellenism to Islam: Cultural and Linguistic Change in the Roman Near EastHannah Cotton Cambridge University Press, 2009 M09 3 - 481 pages 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, emphasizing 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. |
Contents
documentary evidence social realities | 1 |
The presence role and significance of Latin in | 15 |
Latin in cities of the Roman Near East 43 | 69 |
Euergetism in Josephus and the epigraphic culture | 75 |
Legal and social status of threptoz and related categories | 93 |
Languages and religion in second to fourthcentury | 177 |
The epigraphic habit and the Jewish diasporas | 203 |
Religion and language in DuraEuropos | 235 |
Edessene Syriac inscriptions in late antique Syria | 289 |
I2 Samaritan Writing and Writings | 303 |
I3 The Jewish magical tradition from late antique | 324 |
The Nabataean connection of the Benei IIezir | 345 |
Greek inscriptions in transition from the Byzantine | 352 |
Arab kings Arab tribes and the beginnings of Arab | 374 |
Hellenism and Romanitas | 447 |
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