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Dissertation Information for Jason Wayne Moralee

NAME:
- Jason Wayne Moralee

DEGREE:
- Ph.D.

DISCIPLINE:
- History

SCHOOL:
- University of California, Los Angeles (USA) (2002)

ADVISORS:
- Claudia Rapp

COMMITTEE MEMBERS:
- Michael Morony
- Ronald Mellor
- Susan B. Downey

MPACT Status: Fully Complete

Title: For salvation's sake (hyper soterias): Ideology, society, and religion in the dedications for salvation from the Roman and Late Antique Near East, 100BC to AD800

Abstract: This dissertation examines inscriptions from the Roman and Late Antique Near East that ask the gods for salvation ( hyper sôtêrias or pro salute ) from the pre-Roman to the Christian period (100 BC-AD 800). The first part of the dissertation distinguishes between two types of inscriptions, dedications for the salvation of emperors and dedications for the salvation of the dedicators themselves, their family members, and patrons. They were used by provincials to express their personal and communal loyalty to the emperor, and to assert their religious devotion. The second part of the dissertation is a detailed catalog of the nearly 400 published inscriptions, arranged according to "types." Dated inscriptions are tabulated to show chronological variations, and the dated and undated inscriptions are tabulated to show regional variations between Syria, Lebanon, Jordan, and Israel.

Drawing on supplementary literary evidence, this study concludes that the dedications for the emperor should be viewed as a distinctly local reaction to the imposition of Roman rule. Contemporary literary sources provide both imperial and non-imperial perspectives on the articulation of loyalty to the emperor; they show that dedications for the salvation of the emperors were promulgated as a ruling ideology and became a regular part of provincial administration. The inscriptions provide data on the actual reception of this imperial ideology in the provinces of the Near East by soldiers and civilians, citizens and non-citizens, men and women; the inscriptions were used not only to demonstrate loyalty, but also to profile the dedicators, and to address local concerns. It is also argued that dedications for the emperors were based on religious formulas deeply rooted in the pre-Roman cultures of the Near East, which ensured their continuity into the Christian period. Before the arrival of Rome, provincials used the formula hyper sôtêrias to ask the gods for personal salvation. By the middle of the fourth century AD, dedications for the emperors died out. Yet, dedications for personal salvation survived the transition to Late Antiquity, since they provided Jews and Christians with a traditional means of expressing social status and piety.

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