A World Full of Gods: The Strange Triumph of Christianity - Hardcover

Hopkins, Keith

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0743200101 ISBN 13: 9780743200103

Verlag: The Free Press, 2000

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Reseña del editor:

In this provocative, 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.

Biografía del autor:

Keith Hopkins is Professor of Ancient History at King's College, Cambridge, and a fellow of the British Academy. He has been a visiting professor at the University of Pennsylvania and the University of California at Berkeley and at Los Angeles, and a member of the Institute for Advanced Study at Princeton. He lives in Cambridge, England.

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• Verlag: The Free Press
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2000
• ISBN 10: 0743200101
• ISBN 13: 9780743200103
• Einband: Tapa dura
• Anzahl der Seiten: 402