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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) | |