The Caucasian Archaeology of the Holy Land

Armenian, Georgian and Albanian Communities Between the Fourth and Eleventh Centuries CE
XXIV + 299 = 323 Pp Auflage
ISBN: 978-90-04-36224-6
Verlag: Brill

Buch, Englisch, Band 123, 308 Seiten, Format (B × H): 155 mm x 236 mm, Gewicht: 617 g

Reihe: Handbook of Oriental Studies. Section 1 The Near and Middle East

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presents the first integrated approach to a wide variety of literary sources and archaeological evidence, previously unpublished or revised.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.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Tchekhanovets, Yana

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Alte Geschichte & Archäologie Archäologie spezieller Regionen und Zeitalter
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Alte Geschichte & Archäologie Mittelalterliche, neuzeitliche Archäologie (Europa)
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Alte Geschichte & Archäologie Frühchristliche, byzantinische Archäologie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Preface
List of Figures
List of MapsXi
List of Tables
List of Abbreviations

1 Introduction

2 The Literary Sources
Chronicles
Ecclesiastical Documents
Holy Land Descriptions
Hagiographies

3 The Archaeological Evidence
The Armenian Community
The Georgian Community

4 Manuscripts and Colophons
Armenian Manuscripts
Georgian Manuscripts
Albanian Manuscripts

5 Finds vs. Texts
Archaeology and Literary Sources
Types of Institutions
Identification of the Sites

6 Caucasian Communities and the Holy Land
The Patterns of Interaction
Interaction with the Church of Jerusalem: The Archaeological Evidence
Interaction with the Church of Jerusalem: The Epigraphic Evidence
Compatriots or Heretics? The Impact of Christological Controversies on the Relations Between the Communities
The Communities in the Holy Land and Their Relations with the Homeland
‘On the Map”: Geographic Patterns of the Caucasian Communities

Summary

Bibliography
Index

Über Autor(innen)

Yana Tchekhanovets, Ph.D. (2016), Hebrew University of Jerusalem, works as an archaeologist in Israel Antiquities Authority. Her research interests include the archaeology of the Caucasian Christian communities in Byzantine Palestine, the archaeology of the Late Antiquity and pilgrimage.