Additional Readings for Week Two
Louis H. Feldman. Jew and Gentile in the Ancient World: Attitudes
and Intraections from Alexander to Justinian
1993.
Jacob Neusner. Talmudic Judaism in Sasanian Babylonia 1976.
Gedaliahu G. Stroumsa. "Religious Contacts in Byzantine Palestine" Neuman
36/1989.
Jacob Neusner. Judaism and Christianity in the Age of Constantine
1987.
Peter Brown. The World of Late Antiquity, AD 150-750. 1976.
J. F. Haldon. Byzantium in the Seventh Century: The Transformtion of a
Culture 1990.
Andrew Scharf. Byzantine Jewry from Justinian to the Fourth Crusade
1971.
Geo Widengren. "The Status of the Jews in the Sassanian Empire" Iranica
Antiqua I/1961, 117-62.
Averil Cameron. "The Eastern Provinces in the Seventh Century A.D.: Hellenism
and the Emergence of Islam" Hellenismos: Quelques Jalons pour une
Histoire de l'Identite Grecque, ed. S. Said. 1991.
Garth Fowden. "Bishops and Temples in the Eastern Roman Empire A.D. 320-435"
Journal of Theological Studies n.s. 29 (1978), pp. 53-78.
C. Wilfred Griggs. Early Egyptian Christianity: From Its Origins to 451
CE (1991).
Sebastian Brock "Christians in the Sasanian Empire: A Cse of Divided
Loyalties" in Stuart Mews (ed) Religion and National Identity 1982.
pp. 1-19.
J. Duchesne-Guillemin. "Zoroastrian Religion" in Ehsan Yarshataer (ed). The
Cambridge History of Iran, vol. 3. The Seleucid, Parthian and Sasanian
Periods (1983).
R. C. Zaehner. The Dawn and Twilight of Zoroastrianism 1961.
H. S. Nyberg. "Sassanid Mazdaism According to Moslem Sources" Journal
of the K. R. Cama Oriental Institute 39/1958, pp. 1-63.
Jamsheed Choksy. "Sacral Kingship in Sasanian Iran" Bulletin of the Asia
Institute. 2/1988 , pp, 35-52.
Mary Boyce. Zoroastrians: Their Religious Beliefs and Practices 1979.
David Frankfurter. Religion in Greco-Roman Egypt: Assimilation and Resistance
1999.
Nina Garsoian, et al. East of Byzantium: Syria and Armenia in the Formative
Period 1982.