Includes bibliographical references (pages 269-299) and index.
Summary:
"'The Caucasian archaeology of the Holy Land' investigates the complete corpus of available literary, epigraphic and archaeological evidence of the Armenian, Georgian and Caucasian Albanian Christian communities' activity in the Holy Land during the Byzantine and the Early Islamic periods. This book presents the first integrated approach to a wide variety of literary sources and archaeological evidence, previously unpublished or revised. The study explores the place of each of these Caucasian communities in ancient Palestine through a synthesis of literary and material evidence and seeks to understand the interrelations between them and the influence they had on the national churches of the Caucasus."--Back cover.
Series:
Handbook of oriental studies. Section one, The Near and Middle East, 0169-9423 ; volume 123
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