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Roman Edessa
Roman Edessa offers a comprehensive and erudite analysis of the ancient city of Edessa (modern day Urfa, Turkey), which constituted a remarkable amalgam of the East and the West. Among the areas explored are:
* the cultural life and antecedents of Edessa
* Edessene religion
* the extent of the Hellenization at Edessa before the advent of Christianity
* the myth of an exchange of letters between a King Abgar and Jesus.
- Undertitel
- Politics and Culture on the Eastern Fringes of the Roman Empire, 114 - 242 C.E.
- Författare
- Steven K. Ross
- ISBN
- 9780415187879
- Språk
- Engelska
- Vikt
- 380 gram
- Utgivningsdatum
- 2000-10-26
- Förlag
- Routledge
- Sidor
- 218
