David R. Cartlidge is Professor of Religion at Maryville College, Maryville, Tennessee.
Dungan, David L. : University of Tennessee, Knoxville
David L. Dungan is Professor of Religion at the University of Tennessee in Knoxville.
Summary
This collection of freshly translated texts leads to a new appreciation of the richness and variety of the religious
world within which Christianity emerged as a powerful new force. Bringing together for the first time under a single
cover documents from Jewish, Greek, Roman, Egyptian, Syrian, and little- known early Christian sources, the material
is arranged to bring out as clearly as possible the ways in which early Christian worship of Jesus Christ as Savior
and God both echoed contemporary worship of other savior gods and at the same time stood in sharp contrast to such
worship.
This revised and enlarged edition contains a new introduction on texts and traditions in late antiquity, a reworked
translation of The Gospel of Peter, selections from Ovid's Metamorphoses, plus such documents as Papyrus Egerton
2, Oxyrhynchus Papyrus 840, and The Apocryphon of James. In addition, the table of contents has been expanded to
allow easier access to the documents contained herein.