A World Full of Gods: Pagans, Jews and Christians in the Roman Empire
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This brilliant book, new in paperback, attempts to explain just that, and along the way, challenges our perceptions about what the religion was really like in its early stages. There were numerous early Christianities, all competing for the mantle of orthodoxy; heretics could be just as much trouble as the Romans. It was heretics who first created a Christian bible out of Paul s letter and Luke s gospel. The New Testament was a later imitation, compiled much later towards the end of the second century. Hopkins also argues that there were many Jesuses, as shown by the varied portrayals in the Gospels: the human Jesus of the early books, John s mystical Jesus, and the teacher we find in the Gospel of Thomas.
Author: Keith Hopkins
Format: Paperback, 416 pages, 129mm x 198mm, 345 g
Published: 2000, Orion Publishing Co, United Kingdom
Genre: Ancient History
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This brilliant book, new in paperback, attempts to explain just that, and along the way, challenges our perceptions about what the religion was really like in its early stages. There were numerous early Christianities, all competing for the mantle of orthodoxy; heretics could be just as much trouble as the Romans. It was heretics who first created a Christian bible out of Paul s letter and Luke s gospel. The New Testament was a later imitation, compiled much later towards the end of the second century. Hopkins also argues that there were many Jesuses, as shown by the varied portrayals in the Gospels: the human Jesus of the early books, John s mystical Jesus, and the teacher we find in the Gospel of Thomas.
A World Full of Gods: Pagans, Jews and Christians in the Roman Empire