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Religious Diversity in the Graeco-Roman World: A Survey of Recent Scholarship is unavailable, but you can change that!

Over the last hundred years there has been a great deal of interest in the nature of religious diversity in the Graeco-Roman World and a variety of scholars have attempted to untangle the complexities of religious interaction and conflict. For students of this period there is a need for an introduction to this vast field of scholarship. This book makes a comprehensive survey of this field of...

without circumcision and without such ‘works of the law’, how could Jews continue to assert that membership of Israel was bound up with and inseparable from just such works of the Torah? Thus did Paul strain the diversity of Second Temple Judaism to breaking point. 4. Yet Paul did make this claim (that Gentiles could participate in Israel without becoming proselytes). But he did not do so in a reckless or thoughtless manner, far less in a deliberately destructive or apostate manner. On the contrary,
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