TY - BOOK ID - 2698138 TI - Roman Edessa : politics and culture on the eastern fringes of the Roman Empire, 114-242 C.E PY - 2001 SN - 0415187877 9780415187879 PB - London: Routledge, DB - UniCat KW - Romans KW - Şanlıurfa (Turkey) KW - History KW - -Ethnology KW - Italic peoples KW - Latini (Italic people) KW - Sanliurfa (Turkey) KW - -History KW - -Sanliurfa (Turkey) KW - Ethnology KW - Şanlıurfa (Turkey) KW - Riha (Turkey) KW - Ruha (Turkey) KW - Orfa (Turkey) KW - Orhāy (Turkey) KW - Uṛhay (Turkey) KW - al-Ruhā (Turkey) KW - Urfah (Turkey) KW - אורפה (טורקיה) KW - Urfa (Turkey) KW - History. KW - Turkey KW - Romans - Turkey - Şanlıurfa KW - Şanlıurfa (Turkey) - History UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:2698138 AB - 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 Edessa * Edessene religion * the extent of the Hellenization at Edessa before the advent of Christianity * the myth of an exchange of letters between a King Abgar and Jesus. ER -