PHJ № 4 (48) 2025 — A. P. Bekhter. IRINA LEVINSKAYA: A NEW LOOK AT THE HISTORY OF THE EARLY ROMAN BOSPORUS
The article is dedicated to the memory of Irina Alekseevna Levinskaya. The main purpose of the essay is to show the uniqueness of Levinskaya as a researcher who combined in her scientific work such seemingly incompatible topics as the study of ancient lapidary epigraphy of the Bosporus and biblical studies. Levinskaya’s works have significantly changed our understanding of the ethnic, political, religious and cultural life of the early Roman Bosporus, showing traces of the presence of Jews since the 1st century AD.