Bowersock, G: Throne of Adulis
(Sprache: Englisch)
Leading historian G.W. Bowersock provides a narrative account of a fascinating but overlooked chapter in pre-Islamic Arabian history -- the holy war between Christian Ethiopians and Jewish Arabs in the sixth century AD.
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Leading historian G.W. Bowersock provides a narrative account of a fascinating but overlooked chapter in pre-Islamic Arabian history -- the holy war between Christian Ethiopians and Jewish Arabs in the sixth century AD.
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Preface; Abbreviations; List of Maps and Illustrations; Maps; I. The Throne; II. A Christian Traveller in the Red Sea; III. Ptolemy's Elephants; IV. The Kingdom of Axum; V. Christianity Comes to Axum; VI. Judaism Comes to Himyar; VII. The Ethiopian Invasion of 525; VIII. Entry of the Great Powers; IX. Reckoning; Appendix: Nonnosus; Bibliography; Index
Autoren-Porträt von G. W. Bowersock
G.W. Bowersock, Institute for Advanced Study
Bibliographische Angaben
- Autor: G. W. Bowersock
- XIX, 181 Seiten, 2 Abbildungen, Maße: 14,8 x 22,1 cm, Gebunden, Englisch
- Verlag: Oxford University Press
- ISBN-10: 0199739323
- ISBN-13: 9780199739325
- Erscheinungsdatum: 27.06.2013
Sprache:
Englisch
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"The Throne of Adulis shows Bowersock at full bent... Bowersock has brought a novel freshness to this grand narrative. He fastens with delight on new pieces of evidence, from each of which he derives conclusions that significantly alter our view of the whole story...Bowersock has taken us back to a moment of time when the future of the Middle East still hung in the balance...the pre-Islamic Middle East, Arabia, and the Red Sea have been thrown open for us by Glen Bowersock."--Peter Brown, New York Review of Books"Bowersock brilliantly weaves together a sixth-century description of a now lost marble throne from modern Eritrea with new scholarship on Ethiopia and South Arabia in Late Antiquity, with fascinating results for the perennial problem of Islamic origins."--Averil Cameron, author of The MediterraneanWorld in Late Antiquity"Bowersock probes the complexities of pre-Islamic Arabia and finds flourishing Jewish and Christian communities at each other's throat, and pagans of monotheist bent. An ingenious, cutting-edge book, with answers for those wondering who needed the Qur'an's Third Way."--Garth Fowden, author of TheEgyptian Hermes
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