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| Preface to the Revised and Enlarged Edition | |
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| Note on the Translations | |
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| Introduction | |
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| Texts and Tradition in Late Antiquity | |
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| Savior Gods in the Mediterranean World | |
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| The Christian Savior | |
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| The Coptic Gospel of Thomas | |
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| The Acts of the Holy Apostle Thomas | |
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| Jesus after the Resurrection | |
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| Pistis Sophia, Books 1.1; 2.1-8; 4. 141-143 | |
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| The Gospel of Philip | |
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| The Gospel of Peter | |
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| Fragment of an Uncanonical Gospel | |
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| Papyrus Oxyrhynchus 840 | |
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| A Letter from Pilate to Claudius and The Trial of Pilate in Rome | |
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| Jesus' Medical Correspondence with King Abgar | |
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| Eusebius Ecclesiastical History 1.13.1-10 | |
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| The Infancy Gospel of Thomas | |
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| The Gospel of Pseudo-Matthew | |
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| The Birth of Jesus | |
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| A Latin Infancy Gospel | |
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| Fragments of an Unknown Gospel | |
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| Papyrus Egerton 2 | |
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| The Gospel of James | |
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| Protevangelium Jacobi | |
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| The Apocryphon of James | |
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| Nag Hammadi Codex I, 2:1.1-16.30 | |
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| Greek, Jewish, and Roman Parallels Illustrating the Milieu of the Gospels | |
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| The Sacred History of Asklepios | |
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| Papyrus Oxyrhynchus 1381 | |
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| Two Prefaces from Arrian | |
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| Arrian, Letter to Lucius Gellius | |
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| The Expedition of Alexander, Preface | |
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| Isocrates | |
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| Evagoras | |
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| The Birth of Plato (1) | |
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| Diogenes Laertius, Lives of Eminent Philosophers 3.1-2, 45 | |
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| The Birth of Plato (2) | |
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| Origen, Against Celsus I.37 | |
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| The Birth of Alexander the Great | |
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| Plutarch, Parallel Lives, Alexander 2.1-3.2 | |
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| The Birth of Augustus | |
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| Suetonius, Lives of the Caesars II.94.1-7 | |
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| The Birth and Childhood of Pythagoras | |
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| Iamblichus, Life of Pythagoras, 3-10 | |
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| The Birth of Herakles | |
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| Diodorus Siculus, Library of History 4.9.1-10 | |
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| Aesop's Fables | |
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| Rabbinic Parables | |
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| Sayings of Thales, Aristippos, and Aristotle | |
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| Diogenes Laertius, Lives of Eminent Philosophers 1.35-37; 2.68-81; 5.17-18 | |
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| Sayings of Alexander and Others | |
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| Alexander the Great (Plutarch. Morals 179D-181F) | |
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| Epictetus | |
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| Arrian, Discourses of Epictetus 3.22.1 ff | |
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| Two Stories from Epictetus | |
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| Arrian, Discourses of Epictetus 1.2.19-29 | |
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| Asklepios | |
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| The Epidauros Inscriptions | |
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| Pythagoras | |
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| Iamblichus, Life of Pythagoras, 36, 60-61, 134-36 | |
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| Vespasian | |
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| Tacitus, Histories 4.81 | |
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| A Syrian Exorcist | |
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| Lucian, The Lover of Lies 16 | |
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| Chanina ben Dosa | |
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| A Jewish Boy Calms the Sea | |
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| The Rabbis Reject Miracles | |
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| The Murder of Julius Caesar | |
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| Virgil, Georgics 1.463-468 | |
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| Suetonius, The Lives of the Caesars 1.88-89 | |
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| Plutarch, Caesar 69.3-5 | |
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| The Wine Miracle of Dionysos | |
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| Pausanius, Description of Greece 6.26.1f | |
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| The Salvation of Lucius | |
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| Apuleius, Metamorphoses II | |
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| The Messianic Banquet at Qumran | |
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| The Scroll of the Rule (The Rule Annexe [IQSa 11-22]) | |
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| 2 Esdras 11; 13 | |
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| A Roman "Messianic" Prophecy | |
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| Virgil, Eclogue IV | |
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| The Footsteps of the Messiah | |
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| Mishnah, Sotah 9:15 | |
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| Zeno | |
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| Diogenes Laertius, Lives of Eminent Philosophers 9.26 | |
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| Eleazar | |
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| 4 Maccabees 5:1-6:28 | |
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| Rabbi Akiba | |
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| Romulus | |
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| Ovid, Metamorphoses 14.805-851 | |
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| Ovid, Fasti 2.481-509 | |
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| Livy, Book 1.16 | |
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| The Dream of Scipio | |
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| Cicero, The Republic 6.9-26 | |
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| Apotheosis of Antinous | |
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| Hadrian's Memorial to Antinous | |
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| Dio Cassius, Roman History 69.11.2 | |
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| Pausanius, Description of Greece 8.9.7-8 | |
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| Eusebius, Ecclesiastical History 4.8.2 | |
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| Justin Martyr, Apology 1.29 | |
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| Clement of Alexandria, Protrepticus 4 | |
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| Herakles | |
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| Diodorus Siculus, Library of History 4.38.3-5; 39.1-2 | |
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| Greek and Jewish "Gospels" | |
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| The Life of Apollonios of Tyana | |
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| Flavius Philostratus | |
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| Polmandres | |
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| The Hermetic Tractates | |
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| The Life of Moses | |
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| Philo of Alexandrid | |
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| Alexander the False Prophet | |
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| Lucian of Samosata | |
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| Ovid | |
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| Metamorphoses (selections) | |