Jews, Pagans and Christians in the Roman Empire

Geboren 1944; 1979 Promotion; 1978-90 Associate Professor für Alte Geschichte an der Universität Utrecht; 1990-2009 Lehrstuhl für Religionswissenschaft an der Fakultät für Theologie und Religionswissenschaft der Universität Groningen; 2019-20 Fellow am Centre for Advanced Studies »Beyond Canon«, Regensburg.

• Section I Jews and Judaism1. Jews and Spartans: Abrahamic Cousins2. Vergil and Jewish Literature3. The First Pogrom? Religious Violence in Alexandria in AD 38?4. Ioudaismos, Christianismos and the Parting of the WaysSection II Pagans and ChristiansII.1. The novel: Pagan and Christian5. Priests and Priestesses in the Pagan and Christian Greek Novel6. Ghosts, Resurrections and Empty Tombs in the Gospels, the Greek Novel and the Second Sophistic7. Animal Sacrifice in the Novel and Late Antiquity8. Eucharist and Agapê in the Later Second Century: The Apocryphal Acts and the Pagan Novel9. Hellenistic and Roman Miracle TalesII.2. Mysteries10. Imperial Mysteries11. Philosophers and the Mysteries12. Celsus and Origen on the Mysteries13. Richard Reitzenstein's Die Hellenistischen Mysterienreligionen14. Religion and the Mysteries in Arthur Darby Nock's Conversion Section III Early Christianity III.1. Various themes15. Early Christian Human Sacrifice between Fact and Fiction16. God against the Gods: Early Christians and the Worship of Statues17. Where Did the Early Christians Meet?18. The Portrait of the Apostle Paul in the Acts of Paul19. Total Devotion in the Acts of PeterIII.2. Martyrdom and Religious Violence20. Tacitus and the Persecution of the Christians: An Invention of Tradition?21. The Apocalypse of Peter as the First Christian Martyr Text: Its Date, Provenance and Relationship with 2 Peter22. Imitation of Christ in the Passion of the Scillitan Martyrs?23. Roman Judge vs. Christian Bishop: The Trial of Phileas during the Great Persecution24. Religious Violence between Greeks, Romans, Christians and JewsIII.3. Dating and locating25. The Onomastics and Provenance of the Acts of Paul26. The Place, Time and Author of the Ignatian Letters: An Onomastic Approach 27. Lucian's Peregrinus, the Letters of Ignatius and the Martyrdom of Polycarp28. Author, Date and Provenance of the Protevangelium of JamesSection IV Late Antiquity29. How Do We Explain the Quiet Demise of Graeco-Roman Religion? 30. The Conversion Vision of Constantine31. Athanasius' Life of Antony: Marginality, Spatiality and Mediality32. Paganism in the Hagiography of Asia Minor33. Harnack and Late Antiquity