Ancient Religiosities in Dialogue: Greek, Roman, Jewish, and Christian

Geboren 1968; McDonald-Agape-Professorin für Neues Testament und Frühchristentum an der Yale Divinity School.

• 1. Introduction2. Divine-Human Relations in the Aesopic Corpus3. Society, Ethnicity, and Identity in the Hellenic World4. To Err is Human, to Correct Divine: A Recessive Gene in Ancient Mediterranean and Near Eastern Religiosity?5. Belief and Practice in Graeco-Roman Religious Thinking: Plutarch, De Iside et Osiride 379c6. The Good, the Bad, and the Beautiful: A Neglected Aspect of Early Christian Ethical Thinking7. Living and Loving in the "Present Evil Age" 8. The Transfiguration (Mk. 9.2-8) and the Raising of Lazarus (Jn. 11.1-44): a Johannine Transformation of Mark?9. The Resurrection of Jesus to Earth in its Cultural Contexts 10. The literate education of early Christians, and some of its unintended consequences for Christian exegesis11. Origen's Celsus and Imperial Greek Religiosity12. Pagans and Christians: Fifty Years of Anxiety13. Eusebius of Caesarea and the Paradox of Christian Historiography 14. On the Possibility of Writing the History of Divine Action in The World15. Epilogue: Bring Your Own Hammer