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The present Handbook arose out of the conference ‘Rabbinic Texts and the History of Late-Roman Palestine’ hosted by the British Academy in March 2008, and the aims of that event help define its purpose. The conference was an attempt to encourage the integration of Jewish sources from Late Antiquity into the broader study of the history of that period. The history of Late Antiquity has naturally been dominated by scholars whose training has been in the classical languages, and who are at home in Latin and Greek sources. But there are considerable bodies of relevant primary evidence which are not in Latin and Greek, but in Hebrew, Aramaic, Syriac, Coptic, Ethiopic, Pahlavi, Mandaean and other ‘oriental’ languages. Even early Arabic sources can play a part in reconstructing the history of the Levant and Middle East in the century before the Muslim conquest. The Greek and Latin sources will always be fundamental to the writing of the basic political narrative of Late Antiquity, but the story they tell can be supplemented and corrected in important ways from the other materials. Indeed, these become absolutely crucial when one is attempting to write cultural or religious or social history, or the history of ideas. Few can command the whole range of relevant languages, but that does not excuse historians from any attempt to draw on non-Latin and non-Greek evidence in their work. Increasingly these other sources are being translated into modern languages, and introductory studies are available to guide scholars in their use.
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