From Hellenism to Islam by Hannah M. Cotton, Robert G. Hoylan... - 9780521875813

From Hellenism to IslamCultural and Linguistic Change in the Roman Near East\nAuthor(s): Hannah M. Cotton, Robert G. Hoyland, Jonathan J. Price, David J. Wasserstein\nFormat: Hardback\nPublisher: Cambridge University Press, United Kingdom\nImprint: Cambridge University Press\nISBN-13: 9780521875813, 978-0521875813\nSynopsis\nThe eight hundred years between the first Roman conquests and the conquest of Islam saw a rich, constantly shifting blend of languages and writing systems, legal structures, religious practices and beliefs in the Near East. While the different ethnic groups and cultural forms often clashed with each other, adaptation was as much a characteristic of the region as conflict. This volume, emphasizing the inscriptions in many languages from the Near East, brings together mutually informative studies by scholars in diverse fields. Together, they reveal how the different languages, peoples and cultures interacted, competed with, tried to ignore or were influenced by eac.