Название: The Southern Levant during the first centuries of Roman rule (64 BCE-135 CE): Interweaving Local Cultures
Автор: Paolo Cimadomo
Издательство: Oxbow Books
ISBN: 1789252385
Год: 2019
Формат: PDF
Страниц: 224
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Размер: 15,5 МБ
Язык: Английский
Starting from the issues of globalization and recent studies about the mechanisms of absorption of cultures into the Roman Empire, this book focuses on the Near East, an area that has received much less attention than the Western part of the Roman empire in the context of the Romanisation debate. Cimadomo seeks to develop new understandings of imperialism and colonialism, highlighting the numerous and multiple cultural elements that existed in the eastern provinces and raising many questions, such as the bilingualism of ancient societies, the relationship between different cultures and the difficulty of using modern terminologies to explain ancient phenomena. The first focus lies on the area of Galilee and collecting all the evidence for reconstructing the history of the region. The theme of the ethnicity ofthe Galileans is very complex, as even the literary evidence of the first centuries BC and AD regarding Galilee doesn't specify anything about their ethnic identities.