• Glen Warren Bowersock (born January 12, 1936, in Providence, Rhode Island) is a historian of ancient Greece, Rome and the Near East, and former Chairman...
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    regarding Christian teaching that are worse than simply inaccurate.” Glen Bowersock, a professor of ancient history at Princeton University, wrote about...
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  • Bowersock is a surname. Notable people with the surname include: Glen Bowersock (born 1936), American historian J. P. Bowersock, American record producer...
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    by American historian Glen Bowersock, based on numerous details of Roman Arabia anachronistic for a 4th-century map. Bowersock concluded that the original...
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  • Historian Glen Bowersock wrote a scathing review in The Guardian, holding the work to be titillating yet grossly irresponsible and unreliable. Bowersock criticised...
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    have been numerous. "From the eighteenth century onward", historian Glen Bowersock wrote, "we have been obsessed with the fall: it has been valued as an...
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    "Well of Good Fortune". Saudi Aramco World. Retrieved March 31, 2016. Glen Bowersock (1970), "The Annexation and Initial Garrison of Arabia", Zeitschrift...
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    has been structured. "From the eighteenth century onward," historian Glen Bowersock wrote, "we have been obsessed with the fall: it has been valued as an...
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    Mecca was a major historical trading outpost. Other scholars such as Glen Bowersock disagree and assert that it was. Crone later on disregarded some of...
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    enough that Philip can be described as a Christian; still others, like Glen Bowersock, argue that the sources are strong enough to describe Philip as a man...
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    101-105 [3] Glen Bowersock, The Throne of Adulis: Red Sea Wars on the Eve of Islam (Oxford University Press, 2013), pp. 45, 47–48. Bowersock, Throne of...
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    other, which adds to the difficulties. According to one theory (that of Glen Bowersock in particular), Julian's paganism was highly eccentric and atypical...
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    factual integrity" by The Independent. But it was criticised by historian Glen Bowersock in The Guardian as being written in "a swashbuckling style that aims...
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    companion, serving him faithfully for over three decades. Historian Glen Bowersock says of Agrippa: Agrippa deserved the honours Augustus heaped upon him...
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    V.41, and X.30; read by Wakefield Foster Court Poet & Pornographer Glen Bowersock on Martial from The New York Review of Books * This article incorporates...
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  • beginning of the inscription was damaged before being recorded by Cosmas. Glen Bowersock proposes that it might have been Gadarat or Sembrouthes. Yuzo Shitomi...
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    with solar rays interacting with dew in the cracks. The historian Glen Bowersock proposed that the queen restored the colossus ("silencing" it), which...
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    something of a rarity.: 6–8  Brown and others such as Noel Lenski and Glen Bowersock say that "For all their propaganda, Constantine and his successors did...
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    themes, and prose hymns to various gods—established him (according to Glen Bowersock) as a "pivotal figure in the transmission of Hellenism". Unlike many...
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  • professor of politics, politician, cabinet minister, UK High Commissioner Glen Bowersock Harvard University Balliol 1957 United States Ancient historian Antonio...
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  • in Proceedings of the British Academy 80 (1991) 361-70. Obituary by Glen Bowersock "Obituary: Russell Meiggs", In Proceedings of the American Philosophical...
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    11,000 captives and 290,000 camels and bovines and sheep. Historian Glen Bowersock described this as a "savage pogrom that the Jewish king of the Arabs...
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    κίναιδος (homosexual, pervert) and κολπίτης (those living on a gulf). Glen Bowersock interprets this as an obscenity (if Greek), but Hélène Cuvigny and Christian...
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    scandalous.". This last judgement has been endorsed by the historian Glen Bowersock, while the Gibbon scholar Jane Elizabeth Norton said that "By all the...
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  • of the Roman province of Arabia Petraea at the time, and historian Glen Bowersock suggests the inscription was on "a wandering stone which had made its...
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    killing more than 22,000 Christians in Zafar and Najran. Historian Glen Bowersock described this massacre as a "savage pogrom that the Jewish king of...
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  • completed by Glen Bowersock and Christopher P. Jones), 1994. Choix d’écrits, 2007 (contains the complete bibliography of Robert at pp. 22–61). Bowersock 2008...
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    Angell (1829–1916) – educator, academic administrator, and diplomat Glen Bowersock (born 1936) – scholar of the ancient world and the history of ancient...
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  • Jerusalem Late Antiquity: A Guide to the Post-Classical World, with Glen Bowersock and Peter Brown, Harvard University Press, (1999) The Art and Architecture...
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  • the dupe) in a game of high politics with the patriarch of Antioch. Glen Bowersock, on the other hand, sees Zeno and Anthemius as working together to resolve...
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