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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
- 9780415620093
- Språk
- Engelska
- Vikt
- 380 gram
- Utgivningsdatum
- 2011-01-31
- Förlag
- Routledge
- Sidor
- 204
