Reading religions in the ancient world : essays presented to Robert McQueen Grant on his 90th birthday /

Astutely reading the writings of early Christianity as part of the lively conversation of the Graeco-Roman world, Robert M. Grant helped reshape the study of the New Testament and early Christianity for scholars in the United States and Europe. Reading Religions in the Ancient World honors his work...

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Other Authors: Aune, David Edward., Grant, Robert McQueen, 1917-, Young, Robin Darling.

Format: eBook

Language: English

Published: Boston : Brill, 2007.

Series: Novum Testamentum, Supplements 125.
Novum Testamentum Supplements Online, ISBN: 9789004264557.

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Call Number: BR123 .R38 2007

Table of Contents:
  • Preliminary Material /
  • David E. Aune and Robin Darling Young
  • Introduction /
  • Robin Darling Young
  • Personal Religion? /
  • Larry Alderink
  • Death As Life And Life As Death: Revisiting Rohde /
  • James D. Tabor
  • Credibility And Credulity In Plutarch'S Life Of Numa Pompilius /
  • Hans Dieter Betz
  • \'That Unpredictable Little Beast\': Traces Of An Other Socrates /
  • A.J. Droge
  • To Show The Difference By Comparison\': The New Wettstein And Cleanthes' Hymn /
  • Johan C. Thom
  • Ismyrna 753: Gods And The One God /
  • Leonard L. Thompson
  • \'The Spirit Is Willing, But The Flesh Is Weak\' (Mark 14:38b And Matt. 26:41b) /
  • David E. Aune
  • \'Every Signal Worth Reading\': Jesus And Jewish Sectarians In Mark /
  • Peter Zaas
  • Divine Sons: Aeneas And Jesus In Hebrews /
  • Mark Reasoner
  • The Two Thirteens: Romans And Revelation /
  • Graydon F. Snyder
  • Notes On Divesting And Vesting In The Hymn Of The Pearl /
  • Robin Darling Young
  • Origen, Celsus And Lucian On The \'Dénouement Of The Drama\' Of The Gospels /
  • Margaret M. Mitchell
  • Ante-Nicene Preaching In Recent Literature /
  • O.C. Edwards Jr.
  • The Emerge Of The Spiritual Reading Of The Apocalypse In The Third Century /
  • Bernard Mcginn
  • Eusebius On Porphyry'S \'Polytheistic Error\' /
  • Robert Lee Williams
  • A Sixth-Century Plea Against Religious Violence: Romanos On Elijah /
  • L. William Countryman
  • Subject Index /
  • David E. Aune and Robin Darling Young.