Reading Religions in the Ancient World : Essays Presented to Robert McQueen Grant on His 90th Birthday.

By: Grant, Robert MContributor(s): Aune, David Edward | Young, Robin DarlingMaterial type: TextTextSeries: Novum Testamentum, Supplements SerPublisher: Boston : BRILL, 2007Copyright date: ©2007Edition: 1st edDescription: 1 online resource (317 pages)Content type: text Media type: computer Carrier type: online resourceISBN: 9789047422761Subject(s): Christian literature, Early -- History and criticism | Christianity and culture -- History -- Early church, ca. 30-600 | Church history -- Primitive and early church, ca. 30-600 | Grant, Robert M. -- (Robert McQueen), -- 1917-Genre/Form: Electronic books.Additional physical formats: Print version:: Reading Religions in the Ancient World : Essays Presented to Robert McQueen Grant on His 90th BirthdayDDC classification: 230 LOC classification: BR123.R38 2007Online resources: Click to View
Contents:
List of Contributors -- Foreword (David E. Aune) -- Introduction (Robin Darling Young) -- 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 Difference 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 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 (L. William Countryman) -- Index.
Summary: In Reading Religions in the Ancient World, sixteen colleagues and students of Robert M. Grant honor their colleague, friend and mentor with essays on Classical Studies, New Testament Studies and Patristic Studies. These three areas of study signal the breadth and depth of Professor Grant's own scholarly interests and productivity.
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List of Contributors -- Foreword (David E. Aune) -- Introduction (Robin Darling Young) -- 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 Difference 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 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 (L. William Countryman) -- Index.

In Reading Religions in the Ancient World, sixteen colleagues and students of Robert M. Grant honor their colleague, friend and mentor with essays on Classical Studies, New Testament Studies and Patristic Studies. These three areas of study signal the breadth and depth of Professor Grant's own scholarly interests and productivity.

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Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2018. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.

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