Reading religions in the ancient world [electronic resource] : essays presented to Robert McQueen Grant on his 90th birthday / edited by David E. Aune & Robin Darling Young.

Contributor(s): Grant, Robert M. (Robert McQueen), 1917- | Aune, David Edward | Young, Robin Darling | ProQuest (Firm)Material type: TextTextSeries: Supplements to Novum Testamentum ; v. 125.Publication details: Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2007Description: vi, 305 pSubject(s): Grant, Robert M. (Robert McQueen), 1917- | Church history -- Primitive and early church, ca. 30-600 | Christian literature, Early -- History and criticism | Christianity and culture -- History -- Early church, ca. 30-600Genre/Form: Electronic books.DDC classification: 230 LOC classification: BR123 | .R38 2007Other classification: 11.18 | 11.51 Online resources: Click to View
Contents:
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: God 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 "denouement of the drama" of the Gospels / Margaret M. Mitchell -- Anti-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 / I. William Countryman.
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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: God 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 "denouement of the drama" of the Gospels / Margaret M. Mitchell -- Anti-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 / I. William Countryman.

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