By Mark A. Chancey,Eric M. Meyers
ISBN-10: 0300141793
ISBN-13: 9780300141795
ISBN-10: 030020583X
ISBN-13: 9780300205831
Drawing at the most modern, groundbreaking archaeological study, Eric M. Meyers and Mark A. Chancey re-narrate the heritage of historic Palestine during this richly illustrated and expertly built-in book. Spanning from the conquest of Alexander the nice within the fourth century BCE till the reign of the Roman emperor Constantine within the fourth century CE, they synthesize archaeological facts with historic literary assets (including the Bible) to provide a sustained evaluation of the tumultuous highbrow and non secular adjustments that impacted global historical past in the course of the Greco-Roman period.
The authors show how the transformation of the traditional close to East less than the impression of the Greeks after which the Romans ended in foundational adjustments in either the cloth and highbrow worlds of the Levant. Palestine's subjection to Hellenistic kingdoms, its rule via the Hasmonean and Herodian dynasties, the 2 disastrous Jewish revolts opposed to Rome, and its complete incorporation into the Roman Empire supply a history for the emergence of Christianity. The authors become aware of within the archaeological checklist how Judaism and Christianity have been almost undistinguishable for hundreds of years, till the increase of imperial Christianity with Emperor Constantine.
The purely book-length review to be had that specializes in the archaeology of Palestine during this interval, this entire and powerfully illuminating paintings sheds new mild at the lands of the Bible.
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