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More than 400 distinguished scholars, including archaeologists, art historians, historians, epigraphers, and theologians, have worked together to create the 1,455 entries in this monumental encyclopedia - the first comprehensive reference work of its kind. From Aachen to Zurzach, Paul Corby Finney's three-volume masterwork draws on archaeological a

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"Religious Studies Review ""This is a reference work that has broad appeal; although it is 'designed as an entry-level research tool' and thus is not as comprehensive as specialists in any one particular area might desire, there is much to be learned here and it should be consulted often."" -- Peter Brown in the New York Review of Books ""[The encyclopedia] is a guide to a new world; indeed, so broad is its range of reference that it is almost a guide to late antiquity as a whole. . . . A triumph of intellectual generosity."""

Religious Studies Review This is a reference work that has broad appeal; although it is 'designed as an entry-level research tool' and thus is not as comprehensive as specialists in any one particular area might desire, there is much to be learned here and it should be consulted often. -- Peter Brown in the New York Review of Books [The encyclopedia] is a guide to a new world; indeed, so broad is its range of reference that it is almost a guide to late antiquity as a whole. . . . A triumph of intellectual generosity.

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Paul Corby Finney is Professor Emeritus of Ancient History at the University of Missouri, Saint Louis, and the author of a number of books including The Invisible God, and Seeing Beyond the Word: Visual Arts and The Calvinist Tradition.

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