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The Middle East Under Rome
The ancient Middle East was the theater of passionate interaction between Phoenicians, Aramaeans, Arabs, Jews, Greeks, and Romans. At the crossroads of the Mediterranean, Mesopotamia, and the Arabian peninsula, the area dominated by what the Romans called Syria was at times a scene of violent confrontation, but more often one of peaceful interaction, of prosperous cultivation, energetic production, and commerce--a crucible of cultural, religious, and artistic innovations that profoundly determined the course of world history. Maurice Sartre has written a long overdue and comprehensive history of the Semitic Near East (modern Syria, Lebanon, Jordan, and Israel) from the eve of the Roman conqu...
The Adventure of the Illustrious Scholar
The Adventure of the Illustrious Scholar: Papers Presented to Oscar White Muscarella, edited by Elizabeth Simpson, is a Festschrift celebrating the career of one of the foremost archaeologists of the ancient Near East. Oscar Muscarella is a former curator at the Metropolitan Museum of Art and a formidable scholar who has excavated at sites in Turkey, Iran, and the United States. He has published eight books and nearly 200 articles, excavation reports, and reviews on topics ranging from the arts of antiquity and the importance of connoisseurship, to the difficulties of dating and the problems of forgeries, the looting of ancient sites, and the antiquities trade. The forty-seven contributors are experts in the areas of Muscarella’s interests and are major scholars in their fields. This volume constitutes an unusual, important, and timely addition to the archaeological and art historical literature.
Men on the Rocks
Petra in modern southern Jordan is universally known as one of the most frequented touristic sites in the Near East, inscribed on the UNESCO world heritage list. Modern visitors are attracted by the romantic aspect of the rock-cut tomb façades, heavily contrasting in their baroque stile with the desert like surrounding of the rocky and arid landscape. These monuments were the result of the long time presence of the Arab tribe of the Nabataeans who made Petra their capital when they became, at least partially, sedentarised during the Hellenistic period, i.e between the late 4th to late 1st centuries BCE. How exactly this process of sedentarisation happened, how the site of Petra changed from...
Arabs and Empires Before Islam
Arabs and Empires before Islam collates nearly 250 translated extracts from an extensive array of ancient sources which, from a variety of different perspectives, illuminate the history of the Arabs before the emergence of Islam.
Taxation, Economy, and Revolt in Ancient Rome, Galilee, and Egypt
This volume introduces new perspectives on taxation policies in the Roman Empire, the Galilee, and Egypt, with unique insights into the economic effects of imperial pacification on local and regional microlevel economies in the Galilee both before and after the First Jewish Revolt against Rome. Through examining tax documents and other ancient texts in detail, this book offers innovative perspectives on the mechanisms, ideological justifications, and politically hierarchizing functions of taxation and tribute, particularly in the Roman Empire. Moreover, leading archaeologists present important information about the economic effects of the First Jewish Revolt on local economies in the Galilee, based on findings from recent archaeological excavations. Taxation, Economy, and Revolt in Ancient Rome, Galilee, and Egypt is of interest to students and scholars in Classical, Biblical, and Jewish Studies, as well as economic history and Mediterranean archaeology.
At the Crossroads
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Die Rotenbergverschwörung
Ein Mord der als Suizid getarnt wurde. Ein Fall der mehr Fragen als Antworten aufwirft beschäftigt die beiden Hauptkommissare der Mordkommission Stuttgart, Frank Jonas und Richard Bauer, sowie deren Kollegen.Je weiter die Kommissare in ihren Ermittlungen kommen, desto mehr wird ihnen klar, dass sie Ereignissen auf der Spur sind die besser im Verborgenen bleiben sollten. Denn diese reichen bis in die siebziger Jahre zurück und lassen eines der dunkelsten Kapitel der deutschen Justiz plötzlich in einem neuen, erschreckenden Licht erscheinen.
GIFT geschädigt
Ein Element des Teufels macht Schüler krank, lässt Lehrer sterben. Niemand tut etwas, weil niemand die Verantwortung übernimmt. Die Wirtschaft bestreitet, Experten verharmlosen, Behörden ignorieren. "Schule tut nicht weh!" So trösten Eltern ihre Kinder beim ersten Schulgang. Für Schrimps Schule wäre das eine Lüge und er weiß es, doch noch glaubt ihm niemand. Erst als der Tod um sich greift, beginnt er - der Lehrer Ole Fedder - zu forschen. Mit Hilfe der Mutter eines erkrankten Schülers spürt er einen Skandal auf, dessen Gift "aus den oberen Etagen der Macht ausdünstet". Schrimp selbst bleibt vom Gift verschont, aber nicht von weiblicher Verführung und auch nicht vom bedrohlichen Tentakel der Macht ... Hintergrund: Das Raumluftgift PCB (Polychlorierte Biphenyle), das auf der Liste der weltweit geächteten Umweltgifte steht, wird in öffentlichen Gebäuden und Schulen nicht selten auf raffinierte Weise als unbedenklich deklariert, weil deren Beseitigung und die Folgekosten die öffentliche Hand zu tragen hat. Die Fakten sind jüngste deutsche Gegenwart. Personen und Begebenheiten in der Handlung sind nachempfunden, aber in keiner Weise überzogen dargestellt.
