Explores how ancient and late antique Christianity traveled through Asia by examining the social networks that connected the ancient and late antique Mediterranean to the Indian Ocean, central Asia, and Iran. Focuses in particular on the narrative tradition regarding the apostle Judas Thomas.
Hailing from the Syrian city of Palmyra, a woman named Zenobia (also Bathzabbai) governed territory in the eastern Roman empire from 268 to 272. She thus became the most famous Palmyrene who ever lived. This book situates Zenobia in the social, economic, cultural, and material context of her Palmyra.
Drawing upon the issues raised by postcolonial and performance theory, this book evaluates how Syrians redefined Greekness and negotiated the pressures of Greek colonialism and Roman imperialism. Of interest to ancient historians, archaeologists and classicists generally and for those studying the Near East in particular.