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200 10$aThrone of Adulis$b[electronic resource]$eRed Sea wars on the eve of Islam /$fG.W. Bowersock
210   $aOxford, England ;$aNew York $cOxford University Press$dc2013
215   $a1 online resource (204 p.)
225 1 $aEmblems of Antiquity
300   $aDescription based upon print version of record.
311   $a0-19-973932-3 
320   $aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
327   $aCover; 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 HI?MYA 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; Z
330   $aJust 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 mercha
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607   $aArabian Peninsula$xHistory$yTo 622
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