Includes bibliographical references and index

Part One. Classical studies. 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 differences by comparison : the new Wettstein and Cleanthes' Hymn / Johan C. Thom -- ISmyrna 753 : gods and the one God / Leonard L. Thompson -- Part Two. New Testament studies. "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 -- Part Three. Patristic studies. 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 emergence 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