The Middle East under Rome / Maurice Sartre ; translated by Catherine Porter and Elizabeth Rawlings...
The Middle East under Rome / Maurice Sartre ; translated by Catherine Porter and Elizabeth Rawlings...
The Middle East under Rome / Maurice Sartre ; translated by Catherine Porter and Elizabeth Rawlings with Jenannine Routier-Pucci.
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Cambridge, Mass. : Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2005.
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Date
2005.
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N939.4/22
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English
French
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xiv, 665 p. : ill., 1 map ; 24 cm.
Contents
1. The Hellenistic legacy -- 2. The end of Seleucid Syria and the first Roman rule (69-31 B.C.E.) -- 3. From Augustus to Trajan : creating a province -- 4. The crises in Judaea from Herod to Bar Kokhba -- 5. From Trajan to the Severi : conquests and reorganizations -- 6. Civic life and urban develop...
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Cambridge, Mass. : Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2005.
Place of Publication
Massachusetts
Date Published
2005.
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"Maurice Sartre has written a long overdue and comprehensive history of the Semitic Near East (modern Syria, Lebanon, Jordan, and Israel) from the eve of the Roman conquest to the end of the third century C.E. and the dramatic rise of Christianity. Sartre's broad yet finely detailed perspective takes in all aspects of this history, not just the pol...
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The Middle East under Rome / Maurice Sartre ; translated by Catherine Porter and Elizabeth Rawlings with Jenannine Routier-Pucci.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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N939.4/22
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74VKdDO3pRXg
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ISBN
0674016831 (alk. paper)
9780674016835 (alk. paper)
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939.4
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991019827229702626
