CONTENTS
Princeton Readings in Religions Contributors
Acknowledgments
Introduction Amy-Jill Levine
1. Archaeological Contributions to the Study of Jesus and
the Gospels
2. Josephus on John the Baptist and Other Jewish Prophets of
3. Abba and Father: Imperial Theology in the Contexts of
Jesus and the Gospels
4. Miraculous Conceptions and Births in Mediterranean
Antiquity
5. First and Second Enoch: A Cry against Oppression and the
Promise of Deliverance.
6. Jesus and the Dead Sea Scrolls
7. The Chreia
8. The Galilean Charismatic and Rabbinic Piety: The Holy Man
in the Talmudic Literature
9. Miracle Stories: The God Asclepius, the Pythagorean
Philosophers, and the Roman Rulers
10. The Mithras Liturgy
11. Apuleius of Madauros
12. The Parable in the Hebrew Bible and Rabbinic Literature
13. The Aesop Tradition
14. Targum, Jesus, and the Gospels
15. The Psalms of Solomon
16. Moral and Ritual Purity
17. Gospel and Talmud
18. Philo of Alexandria
19. The Law of Roman Divorce in the Time of Christ
20. Associations in the Ancient World
21. Anointing Traditions.
22. The Passover Haggadah
23. Joseph and Aseneth: Food as an Identity Marker
24. The Pliny and Trajan Correspondence and Mark DelCogliano
25. Imitations of Greek Epic in the Gospels
26. Narratives of Noble Death
27. Isaiah 53:1-12 (Septuagint)
28. Thallus on the Crucifixion
Maps
Glossary
Index of Ancient Works
Index of Ancient Persons
