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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

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Publisher:

OXFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS

Pub. date:

2 December, 2010

Series:

Oxford Studies in Byzantium

Pages:

312

Description:

An examination of how, at the close of the Roman Empire, Christianity influenced the political and social philosophy of the peoples of the Near East, laying the groundwork for the blending of religious and ethnic identity that we see in the Middle East today.

Synopsis:

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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8 in-text illustrations, 1 map

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