03084nam 2200625 a 450 991095633340332120240722172423.00-19-933384-X0-19-933367-X(CKB)2670000000368790(EBL)1207932(OCoLC)852756818(SSID)ssj0000888269(PQKBManifestationID)12466085(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000888269(PQKBWorkID)10847821(PQKB)10307235(Au-PeEL)EBL1207932(CaPaEBR)ebr10715664(CaONFJC)MIL493486(OCoLC)846495649(FINmELB)ELB164953(MiAaPQ)EBC1207932(EXLCZ)99267000000036879020130611d2013 uy 0engur|n|---|||||txtrdacontentcrdamediacrrdacarrierThrone of Adulis Red Sea wars on the eve of Islam /G.W. BowersockOxford, England ;New York Oxford University Pressc2013Oxford, England ;New York :Oxford University Press,c2013.1 online resource (204 pages)Emblems of Antiquity.Description based upon print version of record.0-19-973932-3 Includes bibliographical references and index.Cover; Contents; Maps and Illustrations; Preface; Abbreviations; Timeline; PROLOGUE; Chapter One: THE THRONE; Chapter Two: A CHRISTIAN TRAVELER IN THE RED SEA; Chapter Three: PTOLEMY'S ELEPHANTS; Chapter Four: THE KINGDOM OF AXUM; Chapter Five: CHRISTIANITY COMES TO AXUM; Chapter Six: JUDAISM COMES TO HỊMYA R; Chapter Seven: THE ETHIOPIAN INVASION OF 525; Chapter Eight: ENTRY OF THE GREAT POWERS; Chapter Nine: RECKONING; Appendix; Notes; Bibliography; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; Q; R; S; T; U; V; Y; ZJust prior to the rise of Islam in the sixth century AD, southern Arabia was embroiled in a violent conflict between Christian Ethiopians and Jewish Arabs. Though little known today, this was an international war that involved both the Byzantine Empire, which had established Christian churches in Ethiopia, and the Sasanian Empire in Persia, which supported the Jews in what became a proxy war against its longtime foe Byzantium. Our knowledge of these events derives largely from an inscribed marble throne at the Ethiopian port of Adulis, meticulously described by a sixth-century Christian merchaEmblems of antiquity.JewsYemen (Republic)ḨimyarHistory6th centuryḤimyar (Yemen)HistoryArabian PeninsulaHistoryTo 622Āksum (Ethiopia)HistoryJewsHistory939.49Bowersock G. W(Glen Warren),1936-765158MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910956333403321Throne of Adulis4445811UNINA