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Asiatics in Middle Kingdom Egypt : perceptions and reality
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ISBN: 9781780932156 9781474226233 1780932154 1472502140 1472502132 147422623X 1472554558 Year: 2015 Volume: *5 Publisher: New York Bloomsbury Academic

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The ancient Egyptians had very definite views about their neighbours, some positive, some negative. As one would expect, Egyptian perceptions of 'the other' were subject to change over time, especially in response to changing political, social and economic conditions. Thus, as Asiatics became a more familiar part of everyday life in Egypt, and their skills and goods became increasingly important, depictions of them took on more favourable aspects. The investigation by necessity involves a multi-disciplined approach which seeks to combine and synthesize data from a wider variety of sources than drawn upon in earlier studies. By the same token, the book addresses the interests of, and has appeal to, a broad spectrum of scholars and general readers

Alexandria in late antiquity: topography and social conflict
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ISBN: 080185377X 9780801853777 Year: 1997 Publisher: Baltimore, Md Johns Hopkins University Press

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Second only to Rome in the ancient world, Alexandria was home to many of late antiquity's most brilliant writers, philosophers, and theologiansamong them Philo, Origen, Arius, Athanasius, Hypatia, Cyril, and John Philoponus. Now, in 'Alexandria in Late Antiquity', Christopher Haas offers the first book to place these figures within the physical and social context of Alexandria's bustling urban milieu. Because of its clear demarcation of communal boundaries, Alexandria provides the modern historian with an ideal opportunity to probe the multicultural makeup of an ancient urban unit. Haas explores the broad avenues and back alleys of Alexandria's neighborhoods, its suburbs and waterfront, and aspects of material culture that underlay Alexandrian social and intellectual life. Organizing his discussion around the city's religious and ethnic blocs--Jews, pagans, and Christians--he details the fiercely competitive nature of Alexandrian social dynamics. In contrast to recent scholarship, which cites Alexandria as a model for peaceful coexistence within a culturally diverse community, Haas finds that the diverse groups' struggles for social dominance and cultural hegemony often resulted in violence and bloodshed--a volatile situation frequently exacerbated by imperial intervention on one side or the other. Eventually, Haas concludes, Alexandrian society achieved a certain stability and reintegration--a process that resulted in the transformation of Alexandrian civic identity during the crucial centuries between antiquity and the Middle Ages.


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Identity in Persian Egypt : the fate of the Yehudite community of Elephantine
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ISBN: 9781575067452 1575067455 Year: 2020 Publisher: University Park, Pennsylvania Eisenbrauns

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"Examines the Yehudite community in Elephantine in southern Egypt in its historical, social, and religious context"--

The Jews in Hellenistic and Roman Egypt : the struggle for equal rights
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ISBN: 3161448294 9783161448294 Year: 1985 Volume: 7 Publisher: Tübingen : J.C.B. Mohr,

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Jews --- Politics and government --- Legal status, laws, etc --- Alexandria (Egypt) --- Egypt --- Ethnic relations --- History --- 296*33 --- 933.42 --- -Jews --- -Hebrews --- Israelites --- Jewish people --- Jewry --- Judaic people --- Judaists --- Ethnology --- Religious adherents --- Semites --- Judaism --- Hellenistisch-joodse literatuur--(algemeen) --- Geschiedenis van het Joodse volk: Egyptische diaspora--in de Tweede Tempelperiode --- -Legal status, laws, etc --- -Politics and government --- -Egypt --- Ethnic relations. --- Legal status, laws, etc. --- Politics and government. --- -Hellenistisch-joodse literatuur--(algemeen) --- -296*33 --- 933.42 Geschiedenis van het Joodse volk: Egyptische diaspora--in de Tweede Tempelperiode --- 296*33 Hellenistisch-joodse literatuur--(algemeen) --- Juif --- Juifs --- époque des conquêtes romaines --- Droit --- Politique et gouvernement --- Statut juridique --- Histoire --- 332 B.C.-640 A.D. --- Alexandrie (Égypte) --- Egypt. --- Égypte --- Relations interethniques --- Relations interethniques. --- Hebrews --- Iskandarīyah (Egypt) --- Alexandrie (Egypt) --- Aleksandriyah (Egypt) --- Alessandria (Egypt) --- Alexandreia (Egypt) --- Aleksandria (Egypt) --- Alexantreia (Egypt) --- Alesandriʼa (Egypt) --- الإسكندرية (Egypt) --- الإسكندرية (مصر) --- اسكندرية (Egypt) --- Jews - Egypt - Alexandria - Politics and government --- Jews - Legal status, laws, etc - Egypt - Alexandria --- Jews - Legal status, laws, etc - Egypt --- Alexandria (Egypt) - Ethnic relations --- Egypt - History - Greco-Roman period, 332 BC-640 AD --- Egypt - Ethnic relations


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Visualizing the afterlife in the tombs of Graeco-Roman Egypt
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ISBN: 9781107048089 9781107256576 9781107626669 1316465608 1316464431 1316466388 1107256577 1316463656 1316464040 1107048087 1107626668 1316461319 9781316466384 9781316465608 Year: 2016 Publisher: New York, NY

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Lost in Egypt's honeycombed hills, distanced by its western desert, or rendered inaccessible by subsequent urban occupation, the monumental decorated tombs of the Graeco-Roman period have received little scholarly attention. This volume serves to redress this deficiency. It explores the narrative pictorial programs of a group of decorated tombs from Ptolemaic and Roman-period Egypt (ca.300 BCE-250 CE). Its aim is to recognize the tombs' commonalities and differences across ethnic divides and to determine the rationale that lies behind these connections and dissonances. This book sets the tomb programs within their social, political, and religious context and analyzes the manner in which the multicultural population of Graeco-Roman Egypt chose to negotiate death and the afterlife.

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Narrative art --- Tombs --- Death --- Decoration and ornament --- Cultural pluralism --- Tombeaux --- Mort --- Décoration et ornement --- Art narratif --- Diversité culturelle --- Social aspects --- History --- Aspect social --- Histoire --- Egypt --- Egypte --- Antiquities. --- Ethnic relations --- Religious life and customs. --- Antiquités --- Relations interethniques --- Vie religieuse --- Art, Decorative --- Decorative art --- Decorative design --- Design, Decorative --- Nature in ornament --- Ornament --- Painting, Decorative --- Art --- Decorative arts --- Arts and crafts movement --- Dying --- End of life --- Life --- Terminal care --- Terminally ill --- Thanatology --- Mastabas --- Philosophy --- Égypte --- Ägypten --- Egitto --- Egipet --- Egiptos --- Miṣr --- Southern Region (United Arab Republic) --- Egyptian Region (United Arab Republic) --- Iqlīm al-Janūbī (United Arab Republic) --- Egyptian Territory (United Arab Republic) --- Egipat --- Arab Republic of Egypt --- A.R.E. --- ARE (Arab Republic of Egypt) --- Jumhūrīyat Miṣr al-ʻArabīyah --- Mitsrayim --- Egipt --- Ijiptʻŭ --- Misri --- Ancient Egypt --- Gouvernement royal égyptien --- جمهورية مصر العربية --- مِصر‎ --- مَصر‎ --- Maṣr --- Khēmi --- エジプト --- Ejiputo --- Egypti --- Egypten --- מצרים --- United Arab Republic --- Antiquities --- Religious life and customs --- Cultural diversity --- Diversity, Cultural --- Diversity, Religious --- Ethnic diversity --- Pluralism (Social sciences) --- Pluralism, Cultural --- Religious diversity --- Culture --- Cultural fusion --- Ethnicity --- Multiculturalism --- Art, Narrative --- Narrative art (Visual arts) --- Art genres --- Decoration and ornament, Primitive --- Tombs - Egypt --- Death - Social aspects - Egypt - History - To 1500 --- Decoration and ornament - Egypt - History - To 1500 --- Narrative art - Egypt - History - To 1500 --- Cultural pluralism - Egypt - History - To 1500 --- Egypt - Antiquities --- Egypt - History - Greco-Roman period, 332 B.C.-640 A.D. --- Egypt - Ethnic relations - History - To 1500 --- Egypt - Religious life and customs

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