Reading Religions In The Ancient World : Essays Presented to Robert McQueen Grant on His 90th birthday / edited by David E. Aune & Robin Darling Young - Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2007 - vi, 305 p. ; 25 cm - Supplements to Novum Testamentum, v. 125 0167-9732 ; .

Includes bibliographical references and index

Personal religion? / Death as life and life as death : revisiting Rohde / Credibility and credulity in Plutarch's Life of Numa Pompilius / "That unpredictable little beast" : traces of an other Socrates / To show the differences by comparison : the new Wettstein and Cleanthes' Hymn / ISmyrna 753 : gods and the one God / "The spirit is willing, but the flesh is weak" (Mark 14:38b and Matt. 26:41b) / "Every signal worth reading" : Jesus and Jewish sectarians in Mark / Divine sons : Aeneas and Jesus in Hebrews / The two thirteens : Romans and Revelation / Notes on divesting and vesting in The Hymn of the Pearl / Origen, Celsus and Lucian on the "dénouement of the drama" of the Gospels / Ante-Nicene preaching in recent literature / The emergence of the spiritual reading of the Apocalypse in the third century / Eusebius on Porphyry's "polytheistic error" / A sixth-century plea against religious violence : Romanos on Elijah / Larry Alderink -- James D. Tabor -- Hans Dieter Betz -- A.J. Droge -- Johan C. Thom -- Leonard L. Thompson -- David E. Aune -- Peter Zaas -- Mark Reasoner -- Graydon F. Snyder -- Robin Darling Young -- Margaret M. Mitchell -- O.C. Edwards, Jr. -- Bernard McGinn -- Robert Lee Williams -- L. William Countryman Part One. Classical studies. Part Two. New Testament studies. Part Three. Patristic studies.

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Grant, Robert M. 1917-


Church history--Primitive and early church, ca. 30-600
Christian literature, Early--History and criticism
Christianity and culture--History--Early church, ca. 30-600

BR123 / .R38 2007

230 / A926