Over the last hundred years there has been a great deal of interest
in the nature of religious diversity in the Graeco-Roman World and
a variety of scholars have attempted to untangle the complexities
of reliogious interaction and conflict. For students of this period
there is a need for an introduction to this vast field of
scholarship. This book makes a comprehensive survey of this field
of enquiry.
The first three chapters deal with Judaism: Palestinian Judaism,
Diaspora Judaism and Essenes. Philip Esler's account of Palestinian
Judaism draws particular attention to the introduction of the
analytic methods of social-scientific research to religious
research. The next three chapters form a triptych of studies on
Christianity, examining in turn the Jesus of history, the apostle
Paul, and the early church The final group of three contributors
are concerned with religious diversity within the pagan and
syncretistic phenomena of the Roman world, treating political,
philosophical and practical aspects in the legacy of Greek
religion, in Gnosticism, and in Mithraism as an example of the
Mystery Religions.
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