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Empires in Collision in Late Antiquity G. Bowersock Book Published by: Brandeis University Press Series: Political and military developments in the Arabian Peninsula on the eve of Islam In this book, based on lectures delivered at the Historical Society of Israel, the famed historian G. Bowersock presents a searching examination of political developments in the Arabian Peninsula on the eve of the rise of Islam.


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Recounting the growth of Christian Ethiopia and the conflict with Jewish Arabia, he describes the fall of Jerusalem at the hands of a late resurgent Sassanian Persian Empire. Using close readings of surviving texts, Bowersock sheds new light on the complex causal relationships among the Byzantine, Ethiopian, Persian, and emerging Islamic forces.

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For these reasons, his contributions to the knowledge of antiquity have been virtually unprecedented. They also convey in a lively, accessible style the significance of recent historical, epigraphic, and archaeological research on the Red Sea, Aksumite Ethiopia, Arabia, and Palestine in late antiquity to a broad scholarly and popular audience.

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Whereas the Jewish perspective on the siege is difficult to establish through direct evidence, the works of religious politics Christians named Strategios, whose convoluted textual transmission Bowersock admirably clarifies, and Sophronios eventually bishop of Jerusalem suggest that some Jews sympathized with the Persians and When the Muslims invaded the Roman Levant in the s, they did not encounter a war-ravaged landscape but rather a context of religious politics in which the benefits for Jews and anti-Chalcedonians Monophysites, as Bowersock calls them to align with tolerant invaders against their Chalcedonian persecutors had been well established Later Muslim and Christian treatments reinterpreted the harmonious perspectives of this period so that they were consistent with current inimical antagonisms and Christian-Muslim polemics and , but in the later s, Heraclius had bestowed a great gift upon Islam He destroyed the empire that had aligned itself with Jewish interests in both Arabia and Palestine and that had disenfranchised Chalcedonian Christians in the Roman Levant.

Even as the Muslims wrested the Roman Levant from a Chalcedonian Roman empire, they encountered Chalcedonian Christians willing to cooperate with conquerors that seemed more accommodating than the previous ones.


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In his own preface, Bowersock pays due tribute to Menahem Stern, the eminent scholar of ancient Judaism in whose honor the lecture series was established. His untimely, tragic death deprived the world of an illustrious mind. It is therefore most appropriate that Bowersock has honored Stern with his lectures, which also treat a topic of great multicultural complexity with the depth of insight for which both scholars are most notable.