The twenty-five essays brought together in this volume attempt to do two things. They try first to present a picture of some aspects of early Christian civilization and secondly they represent some of their authors' scholarly interests over the past thirty-five years.
"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…
La quête du Jésus de l'histoire et la judaïcité de Jésus / Daniel Marguerat -- Jésus le Nazaréen : fondateur, ou rénovateur? / François Blanchetière -- "In Nehardea there are no heretics" : the purported Jewish response to Christianity in Nehardea (a re-examination of the Talmud…