Section I Jews and Judaism


1. Jews and Spartans: Abrahamic Cousins


2. Vergil and Jewish Literature


3. The First Pogrom? Religious Violence in Alexandria in AD 38?


4. Ioudaismos, Christianismos and the Parting of the Ways


Section II Pagans and Christians


II.1. The novel: Pagan and Christian


5. Priests and Priestesses in the Pagan and Christian Greek Novel


6. Ghosts, Resurrections and Empty Tombs in the Gospels, the Greek Novel and the Second Sophistic


7. Animal Sacrifice in the Novel and Late Antiquity


8. Eucharist and Agapê in the Later Second Century: The Apocryphal Acts and the Pagan Novel


9. Hellenistic and Roman Miracle Tales


II.2. Mysteries


10. Imperial Mysteries


11. Philosophers and the Mysteries


12. Celsus and Origen on the Mysteries


13. Richard Reitzenstein's Die Hellenistischen Mysterienreligionen


14. Religion and the Mysteries in Arthur Darby Nock's Conversion


Section III Early Christianity


III.1. Various themes


15. Early Christian Human Sacrifice between Fact and Fiction


16. God against the Gods: Early Christians and the Worship of Statues


17. Where Did the Early Christians Meet?


18. The Portrait of the Apostle Paul in the Acts of Paul


19. Total Devotion in the Acts of Peter


III.2. Martyrdom and Religious Violence


20. Tacitus and the Persecution of the Christians: An Invention of Tradition?


21. The Apocalypse of Peter as the First Christian Martyr Text: Its Date, Provenance and Relationship with 2 Peter


22. Imitation of Christ in the Passion of the Scillitan Martyrs?


23. Roman Judge vs. Christian Bishop: The Trial of Phileas during the Great Persecution


24. Religious Violence between Greeks, Romans, Christians and Jews


III.3. Dating and locating


25. The Onomastics and Provenance of the Acts of Paul


26. The Place, Time and Author of the Ignatian Letters: An Onomastic Approach


27. Lucian's Peregrinus, the Letters of Ignatius and the Martyrdom of Polycarp


28. Author, Date and Provenance of the Protevangelium of James


Section IV Late Antiquity


29. How Do We Explain the Quiet Demise of Graeco-Roman Religion?


30. The Conversion Vision of Constantine


31. Athanasius' Life of Antony: Marginality, Spatiality and Mediality


32. Paganism in the Hagiography of Asia Minor


33. Harnack and Late Antiquity