Review of Ameling (ed.), Centre and periphery: working with the inscriptions of Iudaea/Palaestina

BRYN MAYR CLASSICAL REVIEW: Centre and periphery: working with the inscriptions of Iudaea/Palaestina.

Walter Ameling, Centre and periphery: working with the inscriptions of Iudaea/Palaestina. Antiquitas, 1.76. Bonn: Habelt Verlag, 2022. Pp. xii, 205. ISBN 9783774943612

Review by
Mark Letteney, University of Washington. letteney@uw.edu

Contributions to the volume under review were presented as lectures at the University of Cologne in December of 2019. A brief editorial foreword offers a justification for the book’s title and contents: it arose out of a decade-long project under the same name at the University of Cologne and celebrates both the 20th anniversary of the announcement of the Corpus Inscriptionum Iudaeae/Palaestinae (CIIP), along with the 80th birthday of one of its central architects, Werner Eck.

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