Roman Edessa Politics and Culture on the Eastern Fringes of the Roman Empire 1st Edition by Steven Ross ISBN 9780415620093 0415620093

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ISBN 10:  0415620093 

ISBN 13: 9780415620093

Author: Steven K. Ross

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.

Table of contents: 

1. Acknowledgements
2. Abbreviations
3. Introduction
4. The Earliest Edessa
5. The Coming of Rome
6. From Kingdom to Province
7. A King in Rome’s Service
8. A ‘Golden Age’?: The Culture of Pre-Christian Edessa
9. Early Christianity and Edessan Culture

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