An Introduction to Late Antique Epigraphy in the Holy Land

Leah Di Segni

• Publisher: Edizioni Terra Santa
• Year: 2022
• ISBN:
  9791254711187
• Topic: Theology & Religion
• Subtopic: Ancient Religion

The ethnic pluralism of the Holy Land is unparalleled elsewhere. Whatever period of history, or even of prehistory, one chooses to consider, the land, due to its geographical position, was always home to diverse ethne and cultures and a capturer of influences from nearby and faraway countries.The same pluralism accounts for an unparalleled coexistence of languages and scripts. Greek and Latin, Hebrew, Jewish, Christian and Samaritan Aramaic, each with its own script, pre-Islamic Arabic in Nabataean and Old Arabic scripts, the occasional Syriac, Palmyrene, Armenian and Georgian inscriptions, Safaitic and Thamudic graffiti in the eastern and southern fringes: all are attested in late antique Holy Land, sometimes influencing one another in vocabulary and formulas. Still, Greek is the prevailing vehicle of written communication from its first appearance in the region in the fourth century BCE to the end of Late Antiquity in the late eighth or early ninth century, and it will draw most of the attention in these pages.

Table of contents

• frontespizio
• PREFACE
• ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
• ABBREVIATIONS AND SIGLA
• CHAPTER I: INTRODUCTION
• CHAPTER II: CHRONOLOGICAL SYSTEMSIN USE IN THE HOLY LAND
• CHAPTER III: ARAMAIC DIALECTS AND SCRIPTS
• CHAPTER IV: LATIN INSCRIPTIONS IN THE HOLY LANDIN LATE ANTIQUITY
• CHAPTER V: GREEK INSCRIPTIONS IN THE HOLY LANDIN LATE ANTIQUITY
• CHAPTER V: GREEK INSCRIPTIONS IN THE HOLY LANDIN LATE ANTIQUITY
• CHAPTER VI: TOOLS FOR THE STUDYOF LATE ANTIQUE EPIGRAPHYIN THE PROVINCES OF PALAESTINA AND ARABIA
• CHAPTER VII: PALAEOGRAPHY
• APPENDIX A: CIVIL AND MILITARY ADMINISTRATION
• APPENDIX B: CHURCH ADMINISTRATION
• BIBLIOGRAPHY
• TABLE OF CONTENTS