1. On Romanization 2. Roman power and the Gauls 3. The civilising ethos 4. Mapping cultural change 5. Urbanising the Gauls 6. The culture of the countryside 7. Consuming Rome 8. Keeping faith? 9. Being Roman in Gaul.

Becoming Roman: The Origins of Provincial Civilization in Gaul. By G. Woolf. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge1998/2000. Pp. xv + 296, figs 20. Price: £40.00 (bound); £15.95 (paper). ISBN 0 521 414456 (bound); 0 521 789826 (paper).

The History of the Jewish People

Middle-eastern archaeologists are winning new information from declassified military photographs taken 25 years ago. This study shows how pictures of north-eastern Syria are revealing the routeways, and by inference the agricultural systems of Mesopotamia in the early Bronze Age.

https://dash.harvard.edu/bitstream/handle/1/4269008/Ur_Corona.pdf?sequence=1

CORONA Satellite Photography and Ancient Road Networks: A Northern Mesopotamian Case Study

Greek artefacts, craftsmen and artists had penetrated Rome since regal days; from the second century BC this trickle had become a continuing and influential flood, contributing together with Italic and Etruscan architecture and art, and the developing central Italian and Roman concrete architecture, to the rich tapestry of the art of the capital. Vespasian (69-79), founder of the Flavian dynasty, showed an astute pragmatism in his handling of architecture and art. In the provinces the architectural and art forms characteristic of the Flavian era continued to flourish. Dynamism returned to imperial commissions with the Romano-Spanish Trajan. The age of Hadrian (117-38) proved to be extraordinary, largely because of the extent to which he was able to impress upon it his own many-sided personality: ruler, philhellene, architect, dilettante, poet, traveller and romantic. The rich artistic harvest of the Flavian to the Antonine ages was not just an imperial, but a corporate achievement, one which offered a worthy inheritance to following generations.

Art and architecture

Subtitle: Outlook for business, regional aircraft sales remains buoyant, Bombardier maintains.

Against the odds

Umm el-Quttein, Southern Hauran, in B. de Vries and P. Bikai (eds) Fieldwork in Jordan

Gharandal Survey 1997: Air photo interpretation and ground verification

liturgical celebration exclusively to the texts used; there is no mention to the prayers at the presentation of the gifts, but also no mention that the elements used in the Eucharist itself are bread and wine, and in other sacramental celebrations water, oil, and other gifts of the earth. McDonagh goes onto state that ‘. . . [in] the Eucharist prayer found in the Apostolic Tradition, which dates from 215 CE, God is thanked for the gift of creation’ (p. 9); the support for this assertion given in the endnotes on p. 153 is the 1945 edition of ‘The Shape of the Liturgy’ by Gregory Dix. Current research works, notably by Paul Bradshaw and others, have shown that the Apostolic Tradition is a piece of living literature reflecting traditions of different eras and probably different places, which did not reach its final state until much later. This is especially true for the anaphora found in it; no serious liturgist would today use this edition of Dix without the many corrections made to it by many scholars over the last 30 years. This little book is an important contribution to what is now a crucial debate on the future of this planet and indeed of creation. It clearly outlines how theology is challenged and indeed changed by ecology, and Dermot Lane bravely sets out possible avenues of responding to these crucial questions.

Book Review: The Politics of Irish Primary Education: Reform in an Era of Secularisation

Book Review: The Cambridge Economic History of the Greco-Roman World

The Demise of the Decapolis. Past and Present Desertification in the Context of Soil Development, Land Use, and Climate, Bernhard Lucke. VDM Verlag Dr Müller Aktiengesellschaft & Co, D-66123 Saarbrücken, Germany (2008), xiii+231. ISBN-10 978-3-639-00613-1; ISBN-13:978-3639006131. 79 Euros; UK£ 58.00; US$ 118.00.

David Kennedy

Papers

Umm el-Quttein, Southern Hauran, in B. de Vries and P. Bikai (eds) Fieldwork in Jordan

Gharandal Survey 1997: Air photo interpretation and ground verification

Book Review: The Politics of Irish Primary Education: Reform in an Era of Secularisation

Book Review: The Cambridge Economic History of the Greco-Roman World