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A World Full of Gods
The Strange Triumph of Christianity
by Keith Hopkins
Softcover in good condition with minor shelf wear including a corner fold on the front cover, a remainder mark on the lower page edges and the pages have tanned slightly with age. There is no writing or highlighting.
402 pages, 2001 edition, ISBN 0452282616, Plume Books
From the back cover
In this lively, provocative, and irresistibly entertaining book, Keith Hopkins
takes readers back in time to explore the roots of Christianity in
ancient Rome. Combining exacting scholarship with dazzling invention,
Hopkins challenges our perceptions about religion, the historical
Jesus, and the way history is written. He puts us in touch with what he
calls "empathetic wonder"--imagining what Romans, pagans, Jews, and
Christians thought, felt, experienced, and believed--by employing a
series of engaging literary devices. These include a TV drama about the
Dead Sea Scrolls, the first-person testimony of a pair of
time-travelers to Pompeii, a meditation on Jesus' apocryphal twin
brother; and an unusual letter on God, demons, and angels.
At once a high-spirited revisionist history and a daring piece of scholarship about how Christianity rose from its obscure beginnings to become one of the world's dominant religions; this book tackles one of history's most fascinating conundrums--with breathtaking results. Written by a celebrated scholar and historian, it is "a delightful romp through the oddities of Roman religious experience" (The Washington Post Book World).
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