CONTENTS -- Plate Section -- Introduction -- Pagan Festivals in Fourth-Century Gaza -- Games and Spectacles in Ancient Gaza: Performances for the Masses Held in Buildings Now Lost -- The Territory of Gaza: Notes of Historical Geography -- The Monasteries of Gaza: An Archaeological Review -- Heresy and Orthodoxy: The Anti-Chalcedonian Hagiography of John Rufus -- Imitatio Mosis and Pilgrimage in the Life of Peter the Iberian -- The Necessity of Advice: Spiritual Direction as a School of Christianity in the Correspondence of Barsanuphius and John of Gaza -- La Formation au Monastère de L'abbé Séridos à Gaza -- Moines et laïcs dans la région de Gaza au VIe siècle -- Barsanuphius and John of Gaza and the Origenist Controversy -- What Happened to the Monophysite Monasticism of Gaza? -- Sophists and Priests in Late Antique Gaza According to Choricius the Rhetor -- The Ekphrasis Eikonos of Procopius of Gaza: The Depiction of Mythological Themes in Palestine and Arabia During the Fifth and Sixth Centuries -- About the Authors -- List of Illustrations -- Index of Names -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- R -- S -- T -- Z -- Index of Places -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- Z.