Constantine M. Klein
Humanities and Cultural Studies
University of Bamberg
Germany
Biography
Constantine M. Klein is Professor from Department of Humanities and Cultural Studies, University of Bamberg. Klein is profound in Ancient History
Research Interest
Greek cultural history from archaic to classical time, Roman history from the imperial age to the late antiquity, History of the Levant from Hellenistic to Abbasidic times, History and evolution of Christianity from the time of the persecutions to the Council of Chalcedon (451 AD), Conversion and apostasy in Christianity and Islam, Greek, Latin and Arabic epigraphy, semitic linguistics and epigraphy with a focus on Omaramäische languages, especially Palmyra and Nabataean, Hagiography in the east of the Roman Empire, pre-Islamic religious history of the Arabian Peninsula
Publications
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"Flavius ​​Josephus, Hieronymus and the conquest of Rome 410 AD" in: Klio 98.2 (2016), pp. 653-682.
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"The silence of the gods: some observations on the destruction of pagan temples, shrines and statues in the late East (from Constantine to Muḥammad)", K. Dmitriev / I. Toral-Niehoff (Hgg), Religious culture in late antique Arabia: selected studies on the late antique religious mind , Piscataway, NJ 2017 (Islamic History and Thought.
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"Mourning for the dead and the beginning of idolatry in the KitÄb al-Aá¹£nÄm and the Spelunca Thesaurorum - an unknown parallel to SÅ«rat at-TakÄṯur (Q102)?" in: L. Nehmé / A. Al-Jallad (Hgg), To the madbar and back again: studies in the languages, archeology, and cultures of Arabia dedicated to Michael CA Macdonald , Leiden / Boston 2017 (Studies in Semitic Languages ​​and Linguistics, 92), p. 532- 547th
