Rome, the Greek World, and the East, Vol. 3 - The Greek World, the Jews, and the East

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Rome, the Greek World, and the East ...

Studies in the History of Greece and Rome Robin Osborne, P.J. Rhodes, and Richard J.A.Talbert, editors ...

Rome, the Greek World, and the East   The Greek World, the Jews, and the East Fergus Millar Edited by Hannah M. Cotton an ...

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Contents Preface vii Introduction to Volume , by Hannah M. Cotton xi Abbreviations xix Part I.The Hellenistic World and Rome . ...

vi Contents . The RomanColoniaeof the Near East: A Study of Cultural Relations  . Latin in the Epigraphy of the Roman Near ...

Preface Fergus Millar, Camden Professor of Ancient History in the University of Oxford emeritus, is one of the most influential ...

viii Preface held notions about the supposed oligarchic political character of the Roman Republic. Most recently, based upon the ...

Preface ix We believe that this chronological arrangement of essays (rather than by pub- lication date of the essays) gives inte ...

x Preface translated in the collection can look up those passages or technical terms in the original, published versions of the ...

Introduction TheGreekWorld,theJews,andtheEastis the third and last volume in the series of Fergus Millar’s collected essays,Rome ...

xii Introduction Greco-Roman civilization is the leitmotif running through all of the articles in this volume. The study of ethn ...

Introduction xiii long to the Hellenistic period, beforeRNEbegins, yet it would be no ex- aggeration to say that the first chapt ...

xiv Introduction ‘Judaism and Hellenism,’ ’’ ). We should strongly resist the tendency of modern historiography to search fo ...

Introduction xv portrayed by Josephus.’’ The preference, which is ‘‘no more than an hypothe- sis,’’ goes to John’s Gospel. The n ...

xvi Introduction two ways. First, we follow the possibility of the existence of long-distance overland trade with central Asia, ...

Introduction xvii the legal documents, their formulae, diplomatics, and language, should be studied (chapter , text to notes  ...

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Abbreviations AAAS Annales Archéologiques Arabes Syriennes AAES,Ann. Arch. Ar. Syr. American Archaeological Expedition to Syria ...