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Explaining the Cosmos
OXFORD STUDIES IN L ATE ANTIQUIT Y
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Explaining the Cosmos:
Creation and Cultural Interaction in Late-Antique Gaza
Michael W. Champion
Explaining the Cosmos
Creation and Cultural Interaction in Late-Antique Gaza
Michael W. Champion
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Champion, Michael W. Explaining the cosmos : creation and cultural interaction
in late-antique Gaza / Michael W. Champion.
pages cm.—(Oxford studies in late antiquity)
Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN 978–0–19–933748–4
1. Creation—History of doctrines—Early church, ca. 30-600. 2. Gaza—Intellectual life.
3. Aeneas, of Gaza, active 5th century. 4. Zacharias, Bishop of Mytilene 5. Procopius. I. Title.
BS680.C69C43
2014231.7’65—dc232013018112
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