lire un livre en ligne Il est apparu que le grand réservoir humain qu’a été l’Arabie, bien protégée par son climat contre les intrusions étrangères, a fourni de tout temps un apport notable à ce qu’on a appelé le Croissant fertile, et cela en vertu de la transhumance obligée qui a entraîné une compénétration constante de populations diverses. En se sédentarisant, à l’occasion, et grâce à un apport lent, mais constant, l’élément sémitique a pris le dessus et, dans son adaptation à cette vie nouvelle, il a fait dominer ses particularités.. La pénétration des Arabes en Syrie avant l'Islam Ou télécharger La pénétration des Arabes en Syrie avant l'Islam.

The first clear evidence of the Greeks beginning to notice the Jewish people, and the Jewish way of life, comes from the last two decades of the fourth century b.c.e. This new awareness was one of the direct results of the eastern world being thrown open to the enquiring spirit of the Greeks, in the wake of Alexander the Great's victorious expedition (Phoenicia and Syria were conquered in 332 b.c.e. ). That huge expansion of human and geographical horizons prompted a new departure in Greek ethnographic studies, which had been enriched, since their first flowering in the period of colonial expansion, by developments in philosophical and theoretical thought. Cultural history, science and religion provided perspectives by which the endless mass of newly available fact could be accommodated in theories based on precise concepts, and judged by carefully formulated canons of interpretation. It is in this context that we should consider the awakening of interest in the Jews and their customs. To establish the chronological sequence in which the first Greek authors reflected and wrote about the Jews is difficult, if not impossible, not only because of our fragmentary knowledge of their works, and because our only clues come from brief excerpts, but also because it is difficult to date the works themselves with any precision. Besides, the need to establish such a chronological priority is obviated, or at any rate greatly diminished, when we consider that these first Greek authors wrote about the Jews quite independently of each other – a fact which seems fairly well established.

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Le Mahomet que nous présente M. Rodinson 1 est bien fait pour donner un plaisir extrême, dû, en définitive, à la précision élégante et détachée avec laquelle des idées provenant de disciplines très diverses sont mises en relief, par leur seul rapprochement. Ainsi, bien que les plaisirs sensuels du paradis de Mahomet aient scandalisé le puritanisme chrétien, on pourrait, d'après l'auteur, « leur trouver un modèle dans les descriptions des jouissances paradisiaques, chez les chrétiens de Syrie, en particulier chez le Père de l'Église Saint Ephrem le Syrien. On y trouvera même que les ceps de la vigne (mot féminin en syriaque) accueilleront dans leur sein immaculé les vieux moines dont la vie passée dans la chasteté n'aura jamais connu la douceur des amours terrestres » (p. 236).

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In the view of the large majority of the population, the new trends in the administration of justice were undoubtedly 'progress'. It is best to start with the city of Rome, as the administration of justice there is best known, and with civil jurisdiction. Jurisdiction in Italy in the last century BC was shaped mainly by the consequences of the Social War, when all communities up to the Rubicon became citizen towns. The governor used formulary jurisdiction as did the praetor at Rome. The introduction of one-man rule affected the different branches of the administration of justice in different ways. In Italy jurisdiction in the municipia and coloniae went on as before. Criminal justice in Italian towns probably declined even earlier than civil jurisdiction. In the provinces the jurisdictional duties of the governor became more and more important as the waging of wars became the exception.

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SOURCES AND GENERAL CHARACTER OF THE PERIOD Towards the middle of the fourth millennium B.C., civilization in the plain of the Euphrates and the Tigris was not dissimilar to that of western Asia in general, as described in the foregoing chapters. Everywhere we find farmers and stock-breeders, in possession of all the requisite crafts, obtaining a few commodities from abroad, and little given to change. Similar peasant cultures—settled, stagnant and uncentralized—existed in Neolithic times throughout Europe and Asia, and continued to exist there for centuries after the ancient Near East had evolved a more complex mode of life, and had, through the diffusion of metallurgy, brought about an improvement in the equipment of the populations of Asia and Europe. If we judge by their remains, these people do not appear inferior to the early inhabitants of the ancient Near East and of Egypt described in chapters vii–ix above. We cannot explain why the latter set out on a course which led to achievements surpassing all that had gone before. In prehistoric times the future centres of high civilization showed no signs of being exceptional. On the contrary, each of them formed part of a larger cultural province: Egypt shared its early pre-dynastic civilization with Libya, Nubia and perhaps the Sudan; northern Mesopotamia was at first indistinguishable from north Syria; southern Mesopotamia was intimately linked with Persia. It was the unprecedented development described in this and the preceding chapter which differentiated Egypt and Mesopotamia from their surroundings, as it also established their unique historical significance.

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