Includes bibliographical references and index.

Preliminary Material / David E. Aune and Robin Darling Young -- Introduction / Robin Darling Young -- 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 -- \'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 -- 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 -- Subject Index / David E. Aune and Robin Darling Young.

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Astutely reading the writings of early Christianity as part of the lively conversation of the Graeco-Roman world, Robert M. Grant helped reshape the study of the New Testament and early Christianity for scholars in the United States and Europe. Reading Religions in the Ancient World honors his work with sixteen essays by his colleagues and students, arranged under the headings of Classical Studies, New Testament Studies and Patristic Studies. These essays reflect and extend the research interests of the honoree; signal the breadth and depth of Professor Grant’s own scholarly interests and productivity; and contribute to each of these important aspects of religion in the ancient world.