Though archaeological and inscriptional finds have stimulated the study of ancient religions, historical methods for interpreting new data have not kept pace. In this provocative book, noted scholar Howard C. Kee proposes a historical method that more faithfully portrays religio…
"The studies collected in this book are all concerned with aspects of the Platonic tradition, either in its own internal development in the Hellenistic age and the period of the Roman Empire, or with the influence of Platonism, in one or other of its forms, on other spiritual tr…
"This first volume treats the initial three centuries of the Christian era. Part I examines the establishment of normative Christianity on the basis of the tradition and canon of the Gospel and briefly sketches the portrait of the Scriptural Christ inscribed in the New Testament…