A world full of gods : pagans, jews, and christians in the roman empire
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A world full of gods : pagans, jews, and christians in the roman empire
Phoenix, 2000
- : pbk
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Bibliography: p. 383-392
Includes indexes
First published in Great Britain by Weidenfeld & Nicolson in 1999
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This brilliant book, new in paperback, attempts to explain just that, and along the way, challenges our perceptions about what the religion was really like in its early stages. There were numerous early Christianities, all competing for the mantle of orthodoxy; heretics could be just as much trouble as the Romans. It was heretics who first created a Christian bible out of Paul s letter and Luke s gospel. The New Testament was a later imitation, compiled much later towards the end of the second century. Hopkins also argues that there were many Jesuses, as shown by the varied portrayals in the Gospels: the human Jesus of the early books, John s mystical Jesus, and the teacher we find in the Gospel of Thomas.
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