Roman Edessa

<p><em>Roman Edessa</em> offers a comprehensive and erudite analysis of the ancient city of Edessa (modern day Urfa Turkey) which constituted a remarkable amalgam of the East and the West. Among the areas explored are:</p><ul> <li>the cultural life and antecedents of Edessa</li> <li>Edessene religion</li> <li>the extent of the Hellenization at Edessa before the advent of Christianity</li> <li>the myth of an exchange of letters between a King Abgar and Jesus.</li> </ul>