Samuel N. C. Lieu Boeken

The crisis of the third century saw Rome not only embroiled in contests of succeeding short-lived Emperors, but assailed by an increasing variety of hostile peoples from outside its frontiers. Owing to the complex racial interplay of this period, the sources for its history have to be compiled from a wide variety of sources. The least adequate are those in Latin, the imperial lives of the Historia Augusta . These have to be supplemented by the Greek chronicles of Zosimus and John Malalas of Antioch, as well as the Armenian history of Moses of Chorene, the Arabic History of the Arabs of Al-Tabari, as well as inscriptions in Greek, Latin, Hebrew, Syrian and other languages. This volume collects these diverse sources for the first time in English translation, and will be a uniquely valuable resource for scholars working on a period of Roman history that is attracting increasing attention.

Late Antiquity was an eventful period on the eastern frontier of the Roman Empire, with the Romans and Persians engaged in almost constant conflict. This book provides translations of key texts on relations between the opposing sides.

Die Studie des Manichäismus, der ersten gnostischen Weltreligion, hat in den letzten Jahrzehnten dank der fortwährenden Entdeckung und Entzifferung authentischer manichäischer Texte aus Ägypten und Zentralasien bedeutende Fortschritte gemacht. Diese Arbeit vereint eine Reihe von bedeutenden Artikeln des Autors, die zwischen 1981 und 1992 zur Geschichte der Sekte in Mesopotamien und dem Römischen Reich veröffentlicht wurden. Die Studien wurden alle im Licht neu veröffentlichter Materialien aktualisiert.