- Additional Authors
- Description
- xxx, 478 pages : illustrations, maps, plans; 25 cm
- Series Statement
- McGill University monographs in classical archaeology and history = Monographies en archéologie et histoire classiques de l'Université McGill, 0926-4639 ; volume 22
- Uniform Title
- McGill University monographs in classical archaeology and history ; no. 22.
- Alternative Title
- Levant
- Levant, carrefour de l'antiquite tardive
- Subjects
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Language (note)
- Text chiefly in English, with some portions in French.
- Contents
- 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 Umayyad Caliphate ca. 602-689 : demographic and microeconomic aspects of Palaestina III in interregional perspective / Frank R. Trombley -- Palmyre, de la ville-centre commercial international a la ville-centre militaire et Chretien / Christiane Delplace -- Ras el Bassit and the late-antique archaeological landscape of coastal North Syria / Nicolas Beaudry -- Rome and the ghassanids : comparative perspectives on conversion, boundaries and power in Near Eastern borderlands / Greg Fisher -- Crossroads in the desert / John Wortley -- Unity and individuality : reflections on images of animals from South Syria in the Roman Imperial period / Felicia Meynersen -- Part III. The mosaics -- Management and preservation of mosaics in Syria : between theory and practice / Amr Al-Azm -- Barrer la route au Malin : une typologie des strategies utilisees : images et signes a fonctionnement securitaire sur support fixe dans l'antiquite tardive / Pauline Donceel-Voute -- Contribution de la mosaique Syrienne a l'iconographie Chretienne / Rafah Jwejati -- Thoughts on the meaning of a "decorative" early Christian mosaic / George Kellaris -- Summation.
- Call Number
- JFE 15-162
- ISBN
- 9789004258266 (hardback : acid-free paper)
- 9004258264 (hardback : acid-free paper)
- 9004258272
- 9789004258273
- 9789004258273 (e-book) (canceled/invalid)
- LCCN
- 2013038359
- OCLC
- 862041431
- Title
The Levant, crossroads of late antiquity : history, religion and archaeology = Le Levant, carrefour de l'antiquite tardive : histoire, religion et archeologie / editors/redacteurs, Ellen Bradshaw Aitken MDiv, ThD, John M. Fossey DáesL, FRSC, FSA ; associates/adjoints, George Kellaris MA, Jeffrey Keiser MA, PhD ; assistants, Ryan Bailey MA, Ginette Gauvin BFA.
- Publisher
Leiden ; Boston : Brill, [2014]
- Type of Content
text
- Type of Medium
unmediated
- Type of Carrier
volume
- Series
McGill University monographs in classical archaeology and history = Monographies en archéologie et histoire classiques de l'Université McGill, 0926-4639 ; volume 22
McGill University monographs in classical archaeology and history ; no. 22.
- Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Language
Text chiefly in English, with some portions in French.
- Connect to:
- Added Author
Aitken, Ellen Bradshaw, 1961-2014.
Fossey, John M.
Kellaris, George.
Keiser, Jeffrey.
Bailey, Ryan.
Gauvin, Ginette.
- Research Call Number
JFE 15-162