Palmyrene Aramaic Texts
Author: Delbert R. Hillers
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Published: 1992
Total Pages: 458
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Author: Delbert R. Hillers
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Published: 1992
Total Pages: 458
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Finn Ove Hvidberg-Hansen
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Published: 1998
Total Pages: 116
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Published: 1754
Total Pages: 52
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Lucinda Dirven
Publisher: BRILL
Published: 2015-08-27
Total Pages: 424
ISBN-13: 9004295925
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis volume deals with the religion of Palmyrenes in Dura-Europos during the first three centuries of the Common Era, and focuses upon the religious interaction between this migrant community and their new residence. By studying the religious interaction of distinct groups on a local level, this study aims to contribute to a better understanding of the process of religious development and change in Syria during the Roman period. Information on the Palmyrenes of Dura-Europos consists primarily of archaeological remains that have been found there. The Palmyrene materials from Dura-Europos have never been published collectively, and for this reason they are enumerated and re-evaluated in the appendix. The book is richly illustrated with 20 figures and 22 plates.
Author: Malcolm A. R. Colledge
Publisher: Boulder, Colo. : Westview Press
Published: 1976
Total Pages: 330
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Richard Stoneman
Publisher: University of Michigan Press
Published: 1992
Total Pages: 284
ISBN-13: 9780472083152
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe rebellion of the dazzling Arab queen Zenobia against the fist of Roman domination
Author: Laurens Ernst Tacoma
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2016
Total Pages: 317
ISBN-13: 0198768052
DOWNLOAD EBOOKWhile the importance of migration in contemporary society is universally acknowledged, historical analyses of migration put contemporary issues into perspective. Migration is a phenomenon of all times, but it can take many different forms. The Roman case is of real interest as it presents a situation in which the volume of migration was high, and the migrants in question formed a mixture of voluntary migrants, slaves, and soldiers. Moving Romans offers an analysis of Roman migration by applying general insights, models and theories from the field of migration history. It provides a coherent framework for the study of Roman migration on the basis of a detailed study of migration to the city of Rome in the first two centuries A.D. Advocating an approach in which voluntary migration is studied together with the forced migration of slaves and the state-organized migration of soldiers, it discusses the nature of institutional responses to migration, arguing that state controls focused mainly on status preservation rather than on the movement of people. It demonstrates that Roman family structure strongly favoured the migration of young unmarried males. Tacoma argues that in the case of Rome, two different types of the so-called urban graveyard theory, which predicts that cities absorbed large streams of migrants, apply simultaneously. He shows that the labour market which migrants entered was relatively open to outsiders, yet also rather crowded, and that although ethnic community formation could occur, it was hardly the dominant mode by which migrants found their way into Rome because social and economic ties often overrode ethnic ones. The book shows that migration impinges on social relations, on the Roman family, on demography, on labour relations, and on cultural interaction, and thus deserves to be placed high on the research agenda of ancient historians.
Author: Giuseppe Petrantoni
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Published: 2021
Total Pages: 182
ISBN-13: 9788869695087
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Klaas Dijkstra
Publisher: BRILL
Published: 2015-09-01
Total Pages: 392
ISBN-13: 9004295860
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe formula 'for the life of' is often found in votive inscriptions, cast in Aramaic and other languages, which originate from the Syrian-Mesopotamian desert and adjacent areas and which roughly date from the first three centuries A.D. They belong to objects like statues and altars that usually were erected in temples and other structures with a ritual or sacred function. The inscriptions establish a relationship between the dedicator and one or more beneficiaries, those persons for whose life the dedication was made. Since the social context evidently bears on both the meaning of the inscriptions as well as the status of the dedications, this volume deals with the nature of the relationships and the socio-religious function the dedications perform.
Author: Professor of Religion and a Cultural Studies Affiliated Faculty Richard S Ascough
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Published: 2024-03-15
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9781481320917
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAssociations in the Greco-Roman World provides students and scholars with a clear and readable resource for greater understanding of the social, cultural, and religious life across the ancient Mediterranean. The authors provide new translations of inscriptions and papyri from hundreds of associations, alongside descriptions of more than two dozen archaeological remains of building sites. Complemented by a substantial annotated bibliography and accompanying images, this sourcebook fills many gaps and allows for future exploration in studies of the Greco-Roman religious world, particularly the nature of Judean and Christian groups at that time.