Averil Cameron

This is an important addition to the mounting literature on the cultural and especially the linguistic mix in the east- ern provinces of the Roman Empire in the period before the Arab conquests. It arose from a conference and a related research theme on epigraphy and cultural and linguistic change in the Near East “from Hel- lenism to Islam,” organised by the Institute for Advanced Studies of the Hebrew Uni- versity of Jerusalem in the year 2002-3.