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'We have no king but Christ': Christian Political Thought in Greater Syria on the Eve of the Arab Conquest (c.400-585)

By Philip Wood

Book information

Publisher
Oxford University Press
Year
2011
ISBN
019958849X, 9780199588497
Google Books ID
nM0UnOx68mIC
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
8 MB (8580910 bytes)
Series
Oxford Studies in Byzantium
Pages
308\308
Orientation
yes
Scanned
yes
Time added
2012-02-04 16:00:00

Description

Drawing on little-used sources in Syriac, once the lingua franca of the Middle East, Philip Wood examines how, at the close of the Roman Empire, Christianity carried with it new foundation myths for the peoples of the Near East that transformed their self-identity and their relationships with their rulers. This cultural independence was followed by a more radical political philosophy that dared to criticize the emperor and laid the seeds for the blending of religious and ethnic identity that we see in the Middle East today.

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