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The prosperous Palestinian seaport of Gaza, touched and influenced by a succession of civilizations, cultures, and religions, payed an important role in the world of late antiquity. In this the eighth volume in The Centers of Civilization Series, Glanville Downey shows how Gaza developed, forming its unique tradition, making its contribution to the world around it, and transmitting its heritage to the future. Gaza is rich in history, for in age it spans thirty-six centuries. It was a vassal to the Pharaohs, the center of Philistine worship, and the scene of Samson’s death. The city fell captive to Alexander the Great, the Maccabees, and the Romans. As the home of Philemon, it was a center of Christianity. Gaza was also a sacred Moslem city and, much later, a fortress in the hands of the Crusaders. More recently, it has been a strategic base of operations in two world wars and is even today a bone of contention between modern Israel and the United Arab Republic. Gaza which made it, in the early sixth century, one of the major educational centers of the Grzeco-Roman world. Here such distinguished writers as Procopius of Caesarea had their training, many of them under Christian profes

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Author

Downey Glanville

Publisher

University of Oklahoma Press

Published

1963

Language

EN

Category

nonfiction