
Roman Edessa : Politics and Culture on the Eastern Fringes of the Roman Empire, 114 - 242 C.E.
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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 EdessaEdessene religionthe extent of the Hellenization at Edessa before the advent of Christianitythe myth of an exchange of letters between a King Abgar and Jesus.
