The Levant ― Crossroads of Late Antiquity, History, Religion and Archaeology

The Levant: Crossroads of Late Antiquity. History, Religion, and Archaeology explores through texts and material culture the religious and social developments in the Roman province of Syria during the 3rd through 6th centuries C.E., including the shaping of early Christianity.

Ellen Bradshaw Aitken, ThD (Harvard, 1997) is Dean of the Faculty of Religious Studies at McGill and Associate Professor of Early Christian History and Literature. Her publications include Jesus’ Death in Early Christian Memory and a translation with commentary of Philostratus’s Heroikos. John M. Fossey, DesL (Lyon II, 1976), FRSC, FSA, is Emeritus Professor at McGill University and Emeritus Curator of Mediterranean Archaeology at the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts. He has published monographs on Greek archaeology, epigraphy, and prosopography. He has excavated in Greece, Georgia, Bulgaria, and Britain. Contributors: Amr Al-Azm, Nicolas Beaudry, Rebecca Coughlin, Christiane Delplace, Pauline Donceel-Voute, Greg Fisher, Pierre-Louis Gatier, Amir Harrak, Ian H. Henderson, Rafah Jwejati, Jeffrey Keiser, George Kellaris, Nicole Kelley, Brent Landau, Marcie Lenk, Felicia Meynersen, Catherine Playoust, Rachel Smith, Frank R. Trombley, and John Wortley.