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Title Reading religions in the ancient world : essays presented to Robert McQueen Grant on his 90th birthday / edited by David E. Aune & Robin Darling Young
Published Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2007

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Description 1 online resource (vi, 305 pages)
Series Supplements to Novum Testamentum ; v. 125
Supplements to Novum Testamentum ; v. 125.
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 "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
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
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes English
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Subject Grant, Robert M. (Robert McQueen), 1917-2014.
SUBJECT Grant, Robert M. (Robert McQueen), 1917-2014 fast
Subject Church history -- Primitive and early church, ca. 30-600.
Christian literature, Early -- History and criticism
Christianity and culture -- History -- Early church, ca. 30-600.
RELIGION -- Christianity -- General.
RELIGION -- Christian Theology -- Systematic.
Christian literature, Early
Christianity and culture -- Early church
Church history -- Primitive and early church
Godsdiensten.
Oudheid.
Genre/Form Criticism, interpretation, etc.
History
Form Electronic book
Author Grant, Robert M. (Robert McQueen), 1917-2014.
Aune, David E. (David Edward)
Young, Robin Darling.
LC no. 2007043550
ISBN 9789047422761
9047422767
1281936642
9781281936646
9786611936648
6611936645