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Available
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Collection
Publication
London ; New York : Routledge, 2001.
Description
Roman Edessa offers a comprehensive and erudite analysis of the ancient city of Edessa (modern day Urfa, Turkey), which constituted a remarkable amalgam of the East and the West. Among the areas explored are:* the cultural life and antecedents of Edessa* Edessene religion* the extent of the Hellenization at Edessa before the advent of Christianity* the myth of an exchange of letters between a King Abgar and Jesus.
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Physical description
xiii, 204 p.; 23 cm
ISBN
0415187877 / 9780415187879
Local notes
Annotations by Don Frew both on pages and on 1 bookmark.