TY - BOOK ID - 3283597 TI - The Ituraeans and the Roman Near East : reassessing the sources. PY - 2010 VL - 147 SN - 9780521518871 9780511674679 9781107668027 9780511675416 0511675410 9780511672163 0511672160 110720707X 128254697X 9786612546976 0511674228 0511670885 0511674678 0511673434 0521518873 1107668026 PB - Cambridge Cambridge University press DB - UniCat KW - Itureans KW - History KW - Sources KW - Lebanon KW - Biqāʻ Valley (Lebanon) KW - Middle East KW - Civilization KW - 956.9 KW - Geschiedenis van het Nabije Oosten KW - 956.9 Geschiedenis van het Nabije Oosten KW - Ituraeans KW - Yeṭurim KW - Ethnology KW - Liban KW - République libanaise KW - Libanon KW - Lubnān KW - Libanan KW - Livan KW - Mont-Liban (Turkey : Mutaṣarrifīyah) KW - Jabal Lubnān (Turkey : Mutaṣarrifīyah) KW - Levanon KW - Líbano KW - Livanos KW - Grand Lebanon KW - Grand Liban KW - Lebanese Republic KW - Jumhūrīyah al Lubnānīyah KW - Jumhouriya al-Lubnaniya KW - Republic of Lebanon KW - لبنان KW - جمهورية اللبنانية KW - Ліван KW - Ліванская Рэспубліка KW - Livanskai︠a︡ Rėspublika KW - Ливан KW - Република Ливан KW - Republika Livan KW - Λίβανος KW - Δημοκρατία του Λιβάνου KW - Dēmokratia tou Livanou KW - Jumhūrīyyah al-Lubnānīyyah KW - 레바논 KW - לבנון KW - רפובליקה הלבנונית KW - Republiḳah ha-Levanonit KW - Либан KW - Либанска Република KW - Libanska Republika KW - レバノン KW - Rebanon KW - レバノン共和国 KW - Rebanon Kyōwakoku KW - Ливанская Республика KW - Республіка Ліван KW - Respublika Livan KW - Ліванська Республика KW - Livansʹka Respublyka KW - Levonen KW - 黎巴嫩 KW - Libanen KW - Bekaa Valley (Lebanon) KW - Beqaʻ (Lebanon) KW - Bika (Lebanon) KW - Biqāʻ (Lebanon) KW - Biqāʻ (Lebanon : Valley) KW - Bukaʻa (Lebanon) KW - Coelesyria (Lebanon) KW - History. KW - Sources. KW - Arts and Humanities KW - Religion UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:3283597 AB - "The Ituraeans, a little-known people of late first century BCE Syria/Palestine, are referred to briefly in a number of early texts, notably Pliny, Strabo and Josephus, and the principality of Ituraea is mentioned in Luke 3.1. There is, as yet, no consensus among archaeologists as to whether certain artefacts should be attributed to the Ituraeans or not. They form a mysterious backdrop to what we know of the area in the time of Jesus, which remains obstinately obscure despite the enormous amount of research in recent decades on the 'historical Jesus' and Greco-Roman Galilee. Through reference to the early texts, modern scholarship has contributed to a claim the Ituraeans were an Arab tribal group known mainly for their recurrent brigandage. Elaine Myers challenges these presuppositions and suggests a reappraisal of previous interpretations of these texts and the archaeological evidence to present a more balanced portrait of this ancient people."--BOOK JACKET. ER -