Reading religions in the ancient world essays presented to Robert McQueen Grant on his 90th birthday (Brill, 2007)
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 "dénouement 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