Particularly stress role of heresies and sects, often underplayed in recent writing
Huge contemporary literature on this critical subject – very hard for ordinary person to understand what is happening and where scholarship stands – aims to navigate and assess evidence – make accessible and comprehensible
Critical emphasis 0n politics and divisions of Syria and Palestine, which are transferred to the heart of the Roman/byzantine world, especially by exiles and refugees
1.use opening quotes about destruction.
What I am doing, seems irrelevant 0 but iconoclasm and canceling are key. Common and vital human behavior, demands study in own right. Fundamental inhuman history
2.Chalke Gate as illustration – what everybody knows