Description: This is a lively portrayal of the ways in which different ethnic, religious and linguistic communities co-existed and conflicted in the Roman Near East in the three centuries between the conversion of the Emperor Constantine to Christianity in 312 and the beginning of Muhammad's preaching in about 610.
Review Quotes: a consistent display of dazzling erudition. One can only wish to have been present when the lectures were delivered.-- "Hagith Sivan, Journal of Jewish Studies"