Title: Shaping the Middle East : Jews, Christians, and Muslims in an age of transition, 400-800 C.E. /
Authors: Holum, Kenneth G.; Lapin, Hayim.; Holum, Kenneth G.; Holum, Kenneth G.; Holum, Kenneth G.; Patrich, J.; Magness, Jodi.; Walmsley, Alan, 1952-; Shahîd, Irfan, 1926-2016.; Griffith, Sidney Harrison.; Joseph and Rebecca Meyerhoff Center for Jewish Studies.
Publisher: University Press of Maryland,
Year: 2011
Subjects: Archaeology and history Palestine Congresses.; Social archaeology Palestine Congresses.; Jews Palestine History Congresses.; Christians Palestine History Congresses.; Muslims Palestine History Congresses.; Intercultural communication Palestine History Congresses.; Archaeology and history Palestine.; Social archaeology Palestine.; Jews Palestine History; Christians Palestine History; Muslims Palestine History; Intercultural communication Palestine History; Palestine Antiquities Congresses.; Palestine Ethnic relations History Congresses.; Palestine History Congresses.; Palestine History Congresses.; Palestine Antiquities; Palestine Ethnic relations History.; Palestine History; Palestine History
Abstract: "Presents the archaeology, art, and history of the Middle East from 400-800 C.E. including latest archaeology of Caesarea, the Persian invasion of Palestine, and the Early Islamic period. Color photographs throughout. Studies and Texts in Jewish History and Culture, vol. 20"--Publisher's website.
Contents: Conceptualizing an age of transition / Kenneth G. Holum and Hayim Lapin -- Caesarea Palaestinae : a paradigmatic transition? / Kenneth G. Holum -- Caesarea in transition : the archaeological evidence from the Southwest Zone (areas CC, KK, NN) / Joseph Patrich -- Qaysāriyah as an early Islamic settlement / Donald Whitcomb -- Archaeological evidence for the Sasanian Persian invasion of Jerusalem / Jodi Magness -- The province of Arabia during the Persian invasion (613-629/630) / Michele Piccirillo -- Continuity and change in the cities of Palestine during the early Islamic period : the cases of Jerusalem and Ramla / Gideon Avni -- Pella, Jarash, and 'Ammān : old and new in the crossing to Arabia, ca. 550-750 C.E. / Alan Walmsley -- Changes in the settlement pattern of Palestine following the Arab conquest / Milka Levy-Rubin -- The peninsular Arab presence in Oriens (Bilād al-Shām) in Byzantine and Umayyad times / Irfan Shahîd -- Aspects of the Rabbinic movement in Palestine, 500-800 C.E. / Hayim Lapin -- Images, icons, and the public space in early Islamic times : Arab Christians and the program to claim the land for Islam / Sidney H. Griffith -- The Muslim appropriation of a biblical text : the messianic dimensions of Isaiah 21:6-7 / John C. Reeves -- Sefer Eliyyahu : Jewish eschatology and Christian Jerusalem / Martha Himmelfarb -- The many facets of Middle Eastern art : late antique, Christian, Islamic / Oleg Grabar.