Die Studie nimmt die bisherige Diskussion der Konversion in der Antike neu auf durch eine Verknüpfung von klassischen, epigraphischen und biblischen Quellen mit einer sozialwissenschaftlichen Methodologie.

This monograph challenges the dominant psychological assumptions that attend modern treatments of ancient conversion and offers in its place a model based on categories the ancients themselves used: patronage and loyalty.

An introduction to 'western' religions, Judaism, Christianity, Islam with a chapter on Mormonism and Baha'i.

FEATURES: * The word-for-word translation (one English word for every Greek word) allows readers who are not proficient in ancient languages to accurately compare the various versions of the gospels * A detailed Introduction explains the ...