Bibliography Sections   Reference General Studies     Sumeria, Babylon & Assyria Egypt     Greece Rome     Judaism Christianity     Islam Other Ancient Religions     Religion and Pop Culture       Reference   Esposito, John L., ed.  The Oxford Encyclopedia of the Modern Islamic World, 4 vols.  New York: Oxford University Press, 1995-.   Fahlbusch, Erwin, et al., eds.  Encyclopedia of Christianity, trans. Geoffrey W. Bromiley.  Grand Rapids, Michigan/Leiden: Wm. B. Eerdmans/Brill, 1999.   Kabbani, Muhammad Hisham.  Encyclopedia of Islamic Doctrine.  Mountain View, California: As-Sunna Foundation of America, 1998.   Meyers, Eric M., ed.  The Oxford Encyclopedia of Archaeology in the Near East.  New York: Oxford University Press, 1997.   Neusner, Jacob, Alan J. Avery-Peck, and William Scott Green, eds.  The Encyclopedia of Judaism, 3 vols.  New York: Continuum, 1999.   Redford, Donald B., ed.  The Oxford Encyclopedia of Ancient Egypt.  New York: Oxford University Press, 2001.   Wigoder, Geoffrey, ed.  The Encyclopedia of Judaism.  New York: Macmillan, 1989. General Studies   Day, John, ed.  King and Messiah in Israel and the Ancient Near East: Proceedings of the Oxford Old Testament Seminar, JSOTSup 270.  Sheffield: Sheffield Academic Press, 1998. Review   Gabel, John B., Charles B. Wheeler and Anthony D. York.  The Bible As Literature: An Introduction, 4th ed.  New York: Oxford University Press, 2000. Review   Haddad, Yvonne Yazbeck and John L. Esposito, eds.  Daughters of Abraham: Feminist Thought in Judaism, Christianity, and Islam.  Gainesville: University Press of Florida, 2002.   Meyer, Marvin and Paul Mirecki, eds.  Ancient Magic and Ritual Power.  Leiden: Brill, 2001.   Porter, Barbara Nevling, ed.  One God or Many?  Concepts of Divinity in the Ancient World, Transactions of the Casco Bay Assyriological Institute 1.  Casco Bay, Maine: Casco Bay Assyriological Institute, 2001.   Smith, Mark S.  The Early History of God: Yahweh and the Other Deities in Ancient Israel, rev. ed.  Grand Rapids, Michigan: Wm. B. Eerdmans, 2002.   --------.  Origins of Biblical Monotheism: Israel's Polytheistic Background and the Ugaritic Texts.  New York: Oxford University Press, 2001.   Vial, Theodore M. and Mark A. Hadley, eds.  Ethical Monotheism, Past and Present: Essays in Honor of Wendell S. Dietrich, Brown Judaic Studies 329.  Providence, Rhode Island: Brown Judaic Studies, 2001.   Sumeria, Babylon & Assyria   Religious Texts   General Foster, Benjamin R.  From Distant Days: Myths, Tales, and Poetry of Ancient Mesopotamia.   Bethesda, Maryland: CDL, 1995.   Pritchard, James, ed.  Ancient Near Eastern Texts Relating to the Old Testament.   Princeton, New Jersey: Princeton University Press, 1955.   God-lists Litke, Richard L.  A Recontruction of the Assyro-Babylonian God-Lists, An: dA-nu-um and An: Anu sà ameli, Texts from the Babylonian Collection 3, Yale Babylonian Collection.  Bethesda, Maryland: CDL, 1999.   Enuma Elish Barre, Michael L.  "The Extrabiblical Literature."  Listening 19 (1984) 53-72.   Barrick, W. Boyd and John R. Spencer.  "Parentheses in a Snowstorm: G. W. Ahlstrom and the Study of Ancient Palestine."  In In the Shelter of Elyon: Essays on Ancient Palestinian Life and Literature in Honor of G. W. Ahlstrom (ed. W. Boyd Barrick and John R. Spencer; Sheffield: JSOT Press, 1984) 43-65.   Clifford, Richard R.  Creation Accounts in the Ancient Near East and in the Bible Washington, D. C.: The Catholic Biblical Association of America, 1994.   --------.  "The Hebrew Scriptures and the Theology of Creation."  Theological Studies 46 (1985) 507-523.   Joines, Karen R.  "The Serpent in Gen 3."  Zeitschrift für die alttestamentliche Wissenschaft 87 (1975) 1-11.   King, L. W., ed.  The Seven Tablets of Creation, vol. 1, English Translations, etc.  London: Luzac, 1902.   Neiman, David.  "The Polemic Language of the Genesis Cosmology."  In The Heritage of the Early Church (Rome: Pont. Institutum Studiorum Orientalium, 1973) 47-63.   Sarna, Nahum M.  "Understanding Creation in Genesis."  In Is God a Creationist? (New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1983) 155-175.   Sjoberg, Ake W.  "Eve and the Chameleon."  In In the Shelter of Elyon (Sheffield, England: JSOT Press, 1984) 217-25.   Whitley, Charles F.  "The Pattern of Creation in Genesis, chapter 1."  Journal of Near Eastern Studies 17 (1958) 32-40.   Epic of Gilgamesh   Abusch, Tzvi.  "Ishtar's Proposal and Gilgamesh's Refusal: An Interpretation of The Gilgamesh Epic, Tablet 6, Lines 1-79."  History of Religions 26 (2 1986) 143-187.   George, Andrew.  The Epic of Gilgamesh: The Babylonian Epic Poem and Other Texts in Akkadian and Sumerian.  New York: Barnes and Noble, 1999.   Kluger, Rivkah Schärf.  The Archetypal Significance of Gilgamesh: A Modern Ancient Hero.  Einsiedeln, Switzerland: Daimon, 1991.   Maier, John, ed.  Gilgamesh: A Reader.  Wauconda, Illinois: Bolchazy-Carducci Publishers, 1997.   Shaffer, Aaron.  "Gilgamesh, the Cedar Forest and Mesopotamian History."   Journal of the American Oriental Society 103 (1 1983) 307-313.   Tigay, Jeffrey H.  The Evolution of the Gilgamesh Epic.  Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1982.     Religious Practice   Abusch, T. and K. van der Toorn, eds.  Mesopotamian Magic: Textual, Historical, and Interpretative Perspectives, Studies in Ancient Magic and Divination 1.  Leiden: Brill, 2000.   Avalos, Hector.  Illness and Health Care in the Ancient Near East: The Role of the Temple in Greece, Mesopotamia, and Israel, Harvard Semitic Museum Publications.  Atlanta: Scholars Press, 1995.   Berlin, Adele, ed.  Religion and Politics in the Ancient Near East.  Bethesda, Maryland: University Press of Maryland, 1996.   Bottéro, Jean.  Everyday Life in Ancient Mesopotamia, trans. Antonia Nevill.  Baltimore, Maryland: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2001.   Frankfort, Henri, John A. Wilson and Thorkild Jacobsen.  Before Philosophy: The Intellectual Adventure of Ancient Man: An Essay on Speculative Thought in the Ancient Near East.   Baltimore: Penguin, 1949.   Gaster, Theodore.  Thespis, Ritual, Myth and Drama in the Ancient Near East.  New York: Gordian, 1975; original 1950.   Jacobsen, Thorkild.  The Treasures of Darkness: A History of Mosopotamian Religion.  New Haven, Connecticut: Yale University Press, 1976.   Kramer, Samuel N.  Sumerian Mythology: A Study of Spiritual and Literary Achievement in the Third Millennium B.C., rev. ed.  New York: Harper, 1961.   --------.  The Sumerians: Their History, Culture, and Character.   Chicago: University of Chicago, 1963.   Miller, David L.  The New Polytheism: Rebirth of the Gods and Goddesses.  New York: Harper & Row, 1974.   Pardee, Dennis.  Ritual and Cult at Ugarit, Writings from the Ancient World 10.  Atlanta: Society of Biblical Literature, 2002. Review   Seibert, Ilse.  Women in the Ancient East, trans. Marianne Herzfeld; rev. by George A. Shepperson.  New York: A. Schram, 1974.   Wilson, J. V. Kinnier.  The Rebel Lands: An Investigation into the Origins of Early Mesopotamian Mythology.  New York: Cambridge University Press, 1979.   Wolkstein, Diane and Samuel N. Kraemer.  Inanna, Queen of Heaven and Earth: Her Stories and Hymns from Sumer.  New York: Harper & Row, 1983. Egypt   Religious Texts The Book of the Dead   Andrews, Carol, ed.  The Ancient Egyptian Book of the Dead, trans. Raymond O. Faulkner.   Austin: University of Texas Press, 1990.   Budge, E. A. Wallis.  Egyptian Religion: Egyptian Ideas of the Future Life.  Boston: Routledge and Kegan Paul, 1975; original London: Kegan Paul, Trench and Trübner, 1908 (3d ed.).   Hornung, Erik.  The Ancient Egyptian Books of the Afterlife, trans. David Lorton.  Ithaca, New York: Cornell University Press, 1999; German original, Darmstadt: Primus, 1997.   Religious Practices General Casson, Lionel.  Everyday Life in Ancient Egypt, rev. ed.  Baltimore, Maryland: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2001.   Morenz, Siegfried.  Egyptian Religion, trans. Ann E. Keep.  Ithaca, New York: Cornell University Press, 1992; original 1973.   Shafer, Byron E., ed.  Religion in Ancient Egypt: Gods, Myths and Personal Practice.   Ithaca, New York: Cornell University Press, 1991.   Shaw, Ian, ed.  The Oxford History of Ancient Egypt, Oxford Illustrated Histories.  New York: Oxford University Press, 2000.   Pantheon Hornung, Erik.  Akhenaten and the Religion of Light, trans. David Lorton.  Ithaca, New York: Cornell University Press, 1999; German original, Düsseldorf: Artemis & Winkler, 1995.   --------.  Conceptions of God in Ancient Egypt: The One and the Many, trans. John Baines.  Ithaca, New York: Cornell University Press, 1996; German original, Darmstadt, Wissenschaftliche Buchgesellschaft, 1971.   Watterson, Barbara.  Gods of Ancient Egypt.  Stroud, Gloucestershire: Sutton, 1996.   Witt, Reginald.  Isis in the Graeco-Roman World.  Ithaca, New York: Cornell University Press, 1971.   Practices Related to Beliefs in the Afterlife Hornung, Erik.  The Valley of the Kings: Horizon of Eternity, trans. David Warburton. New York: Timken, 1990; German original, Zürich: Artemis, 1982.   Leca, Ange-Pierre.  The Egyptian Way of Death: Mummies and the Cult of the Immortal, trans. Louise Asmal. Garden City, New York: Doubleday, 1981.   Murnane, William J.  "Taking It With You: The Problem of Death and Afterlife in Ancient Egypt."  In Death and Afterlife: Perspectives of World Religions (ed. Hiroshi Obayashi; New York: Greenwood, 1992) 35-48.   Roman Egypt Frankfurter, David.  Religion in Roman Egypt: Assimilation and Resistance, Mythos.  Princeton, New Jersey: Princeton University Press, 2000. Greece   General Background   Boardman, John, Jasper Griffin and Oswyn Murray, eds.  The Oxford Illustrated History of Greece and the Hellenistic World.  New York: Oxford University Press, 2001.   Coleman, John and Clark Walz, eds.  Greeks and Barbarians: Essays on the Interactions between Greeks and Non-Greeks in Antiquity and the Consequences for Eurocentrism.  Bethesda, Maryland: CDL, 1997.   Court, John M. and Dan Cohn-Sherbok, eds.  Religious Diversity in the Graeco-Roman World: A Survey of Recent Scholarship.  Sheffield: Sheffield Academic Press, 2001. Review   Kraemer, Ross Shepard.  Her Share of the Blessings: Women's Religions Among Pagans, Jews and Christians in the Greco-Roman World.  New York: Oxford University Press, 1992.   --------.  Maenads, Martyrs, Matrons, Monastics: A Sourcebook on Women's Religions in the Greco-Roman World.  Philadelphia: Fortress, 1988.   Robinson, C. E.  Everyday Life in Ancient Greece.  New York: AMS, 1977; original Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1933.   Archaic Period   Collins, Derek.  "Hesiod and the Divine Voice of the Muses."  Arethusa 32 (3 1999) 241-62.  Available online.   Lateiner, Donald.  "Homeric Prayer."  Arethusa 30 (2 1997) 241-72.  Available online.   Morrison, J. V.  "Kerostasia, the Dictates of Fate, and the Will of Zeus in the Iliad."  Arethusa 30 (2 1997) 273-96.  Available online.   Rose, Peter W.  "Ideology in the Iliad: Politics, Basileus, Theoi."  Arethusa 30 (2 1997) 151-99.  Available online.   Spretnak, Charlene.  Lost Goddesses of Early Greece: A Collection of Pre-Hellenic Myths.  Boston: Beacon, 1984/1978.   Classical Period   Avalos, Hector.  Illness and Health Care in the Ancient Near East: The Role of the Temple in Greece, Mesopotamia, and Israel, Harvard Semitic Museum Publications.  Atlanta: Scholars Press, 1995.   Mikalson, John D.  Athenian Popular Religion.  Chapel Hill, North Carolina: University of North Carolina Press, 1983.   Ogden, Daniel.  Greek and Roman Necromancy.  Princeton, New Jersey: Princeton University Press, 2001.   Zaidman, Louise Bruit and Pauline Schmitt Pantel.  Religion in the Ancient Greek City, trans. Paul Cartledge.  New York: Cambridge University Press, 1992; French original, Paris: Armand Colin, 1989.   Hellenistic Period   Tripolitis, Antonía.  Religions of the Hellenistic-Roman Age.  Grand Rapids, Michigan: William B. Eerdmans, 2002.     Philosophy and Religion   Dillon, John M.  The Middle Platonists: A Study of Platonism, 80 B.C. to A.D. 220.  London: Duckworth, 1977.   Mystery Religions   Sanders, J. T.  "Dionysus, Cybele and the 'Madness' of Women."  In Beyond Androcentrism: New Essays on Women and Religion (ed. Rita M. Gross; Missoula, Montana: Scholars Press, 1977) 125-37.   Rome   General Background   Adkins, Lesley and Roy A. Adkins.  Dictionary of Roman Religion.  New York: Oxford University Press, 2001.   Beard, Mary, John North and Simon Price.  Religions of Rome, vol. 1, A History and vol. 2, A Sourcebook.  New York: Cambridge University Press, 1998.   Boardman, John, Jasper Griffin and Oswyn Murray, eds.  The Oxford Illustrated History of the Roman World.  New York: Oxford University Press, 2001.   Casson, Lionel.  Everyday Life in Ancient Rome, rev. ed.  Baltimore, Maryland: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1998.   Court, John M. and Dan Cohn-Sherbok, eds.  Religious Diversity in the Graeco-Roman World: A Survey of Recent Scholarship.  Sheffield: Sheffield Academic Press, 2001. Review   Kraemer, Ross Shepard.  Her Share of the Blessings: Women's Religions Among Pagans, Jews and Christians in the Greco-Roman World.  New York: Oxford University Press, 1992.   --------.  Maenads, Martyrs, Matrons, Monastics: A Sourcebook on Women's Religions in the Greco-Roman World.  Philadelphia: Fortress, 1988.   Scheid, John.  An Introduction to Roman Religion, trans. Janet Lloyd.  Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2003.   Turcan, Robert.  The Gods of Ancient Rome: Religion in Everyday Life from Archaic to Imperial Times, trans. Antonia Nevill.  New York: Routledge, 2001.   Etruscan Religion     Religion in the Republic     Imperial Religion   Frankfurter, David.  Religion in Roman Egypt: Assimilation and Resistance.  Princeton, New Jersey: Princeton University Press, 2000.   Ogden, Daniel.  Greek and Roman Necromancy.  Princeton, New Jersey: Princeton University Press, 2001.   Turcan, Robert.  The Cults of the Roman Empire, trans. Antonia Nevill, Ancient World.  Oxford: Blackwell, 1996. Judaism   General   Berlin, Adele, ed.  Religion and Politics in the Ancient Near East.  Bethesda, Maryland: University Press of Maryland, 1996.   Collins, John J.  Seers, Sibyls and Sages in Hellenistic-Roman Judaism.  Leiden: Brill, 2001.   McKay, Heather A.  Sabbath and Synagogue: The Question of Sabbath Worship in Ancient Judaism.  Leiden: Brill, 2001.   Hebrew Bible   Abegg, Martin G., Peter W. Flint and Eugene Ulrich.  The Dead Sea Scrolls Bible.  San Francisco: HarperSanFrancisco, 1999.   Greenstein, Edward. "The Retelling of the Flood Story in the Gilgamesh Epic."  In Hesed ve-Emet: Studies in Honor of Ernest S. Frerichs (ed. Jodi Magness and Seymour Gitin; BJS 320; Atlanta: Scholars Press, 1998) 197-204.     Jewish Apocrypha and Pseudepigrapha   Primary Literature   Jewish Apocrypha   Jewish Pseudepigrapha   García Martínez, Florentino.  The Dead Sea Scrolls Translated: The Qumran Texts in English, 2d ed. (Leiden/Grand Rapids, Michigan: E. J. Brill/William B. Eerdmans, 1996-1997).   Secondary Literature   Collins, John J.  The Apocalyptic Imagination: An Introduction to Jewish Apocalyptic Literature, 2d ed. (Biblical Resource Series; Grand Rapids: William B. Eerdmans, 1998; originally 1984).   Reeves, J. S.  Jewish Lore in Manichaean Cosmogony: Studies in the Book of Giants Traditions, HUCM 14. Cincinnati: Hebrew Union College Press, 1992.   Stuckenbruck, Loren T.  "The 'Angels' and 'Giants' of Genesis 6:1-4 in Second and Third Century BCE Jewish Interpretation: Reflections on the Posture of Early Apocalyptic Traditions."  DSD 7 (2000) 354-77.     Second Temple Judaism   Avalos, Hector.  Illness and Health Care in the Ancient Near East: The Role of the Temple in Greece, Mesopotamia, and Israel, Harvard Semitic Museum Publications.  Atlanta: Scholars Press, 1995.     Philo   Amir, Yehoshua.  "The Transference of Greek Allegories to Biblical Motifs in Philo."  In Nourished with Peace: Studies in Hellenistic Judaism in Memory of Samuel Sandmel (ed. Frederick E. Greenspahn, Earle Hilgert and Burton L. Mack; Chico, California: Scholars Press, 1984) 15-25.   Berchman, Robert M.  "The Categories of Being in Middle Platonism: Philo, Clement, and Origen of Alexandria."  In School of Moses (Atlanta: Scholars Press, 1995) 98-140.   Gersh, Stephen and Charles Kannengiesser, eds.  Platonism in Late Antiquity: Festschrift for Edouard des Places, S.J. Notre Dame, Indiana: University of Notre Dame Press, 1992.   Lewy, Hans.  "Philo: Selections."  In Three Jewish Philosophers (ed. Hans Lewy, Alexander Altmann and Isaak Heinemann; New York: Atheneum, 1973).   Runia, David T.  "Philo and the Neoplatonic Tradition."  In The Neoplatonic Tradition: Jewish, Christian and Islamic Themes (ed. Arjo Vanderjagt and Detlev Patzold; Cologne: Dinter, 1991) 36-56.   Sandmel, Samuel.  Philo of Alexandria: An Introduction.  New York: Oxford University Press, 1979.   Winston, David.  "Freedom and Determinism in Greek Philosophy and Jewish Hellenistic Wisdom."  In Studia Philonica, vol 2 (Chicago: The Philo Institute, 1974) 40-50.   --------.  "Hellenistic Jewish Philosophy."  In History of Jewish Philosophy (ed. Daniel H. Frank and Oliver Leaman; Routledge History of World Philosophies 2; London: Routledge, 1997) 38-61.     Josephus Primary Literature   Josephus, Flavius.  The Works of Josephus, trans. William Whiston. Peabody, Massachusetts: Hendrickson, 1987; original 1736.   Secondary Literature   Attridge, Harold W.  "Josephus and His Works."  In Jewish Writings of the Second Temple Period: Apocrypha, Pseudepigrapha, Qumran Sectarian Writings, Philo, Josephus (ed. Michael E. Stone; CRINT 2.2; Assen/Philadelphia: Van Gorcum/Fortress, 1984) 185-232.   Cohen, Shaye J. D.  Josephus in Galilee and Rome.  Leiden: Brill, 2002.   Stern, Menahem.  "Josephus and the Roman Empire as Reflected in The Jewish War."  In Josephus, Judaism, and Christianity (ed. Louis H. Feldman and Gohei Hata; Detroit: Wayne State University Press, 1987) 71-80.   Thatcher, Tom.  "Literacy, Textual Communities, and Josephus' Jewish War."  Journal for the Study of Judaism in the Persian, Hellenistic and Roman Period 29 (1998) 123-42.     Judaism in the Greco-Roman World   Boersema, Jan J.  The Torah and the Stoics on Humankind and Nature: A Contribution to the Debate on Sustainability and Quality.  Leiden: Brill, 2001.   Collins, John J.  "Natural Theology and Biblical Tradition: The Case of Hellenistic Judaism."  Catholic Biblical Quarterly 60 (1998) 1-15.   Conzelmann, Hans.  "Part I. The Political Background," "Part II. The Evaluation of Judaism in Greco-Roman Literature," and "Part III. The Debate of Hellenistic Judaism Within the Hellenistic-Roman World."  In Gentiles, Jews, Christians: Debates in the Literature of the Hellenistic-Roman Era, trans. M. Eugene Boring (Minneapolis: Augsburg Fortress, 1992; German original Tübingen: J. C. B. Mohr [Paul Siebeck] 1981) 7-233.   Gager, John G.  "Part II. Judaism and Judaizing Among Gentiles: Attractions and Reactions."  In The Origins of Anti-Semitism: Attitudes Toward Judaism in Pagan and Christian Antiquity (New York: Oxford University Press, 1984) 35-112.   Kraemer, Ross Shepard.  Her Share of the Blessings: Women's Religions Among Pagans, Jews and Christians in the Greco-Roman World.  New York: Oxford University Press, 1992.   --------.  Maenads, Martyrs, Matrons, Monastics: A Sourcebook on Women's Religions in the Greco-Roman World.  Philadelphia: Fortress, 1988.   Lapin, Hayim, ed.  Religious and Ethnic Communities in Later Roman Palestine.  Bethesda, Maryland: University Press of Maryland, 1998.   Rajak, Tessa.  "Jews and Christians as Groups in a Pagan World."  In "To See Ourselves as Others See Us": Christians, Jews, "Others" in Late Antiquity (ed. Jacob Neusner and Ernest S. Frerichs; Scholars Press Studies in the Humanities; Chico, California: Scholars Press, 1985) 247-62.   Rutgers, Leonard Victor.  The Jews in Late Ancient Rome: Evidence of Cultural Interaction in the Roman Diaspora.  Leiden: Brill, 2000.   Smallwood, E. Mary.  The Jews under Roman Rule from Pompey to Diocletian: A Study in Political Relations.  Leiden: Brill, 2001.     Rabbinic Judaism   Fine, Lawrence, ed.  Judaism in Practice: From the Middle Ages through the Early Modern Period.  Princeton, New Jersey: Princeton University Press, 2001.   Handelman, Susan A.  The Slayers of Moses: The Emergence of Rabbinic Interpretation in Modern Literary Theory, SUNY Series on Modern Jewish Literature and Culture.  Albany, New York: State University of New York Press, 1982.   Neusner, Jacob.  The Mishnah: Religious Perspectives.  Leiden: Brill, 2002.   --------.  The Mishnah: Social Perspectives.  Leiden: Brill, 2002.   Neusner, Jacob, Alan J. Avery-Peck and Bruce Chilton.  Judaism in Late Antiquity, 9 vols. bound in 3.  Leiden: Brill, 2001.   Valantasis, Richard, ed.  Religions of Late Antiquity in Practice, Princeton Readings in Religions.  Princeton, New Jersey: Princeton University Press, 2000.     Theological Beliefs   Bailey, Lloyd R., Sr.  Biblical Perspectives on Death, OBT. Philadelphia: Fortress, 1979.   Day, John.  "The Development of Belief in Life after Death in Ancient Israel."  In After the Exile: Essays in Honor of Rex Mason (ed. John Barton and David J. Reimer; Macon, Georgia/Amsterdam: Mercer University Press/Kok Pharos, 1996) 231-57.   Kennedy, Charles A.  "Dead, Cult of the."  In Anchor Bible Dictionary (ed. David Noel Freedman et al.; New York: Doubleday, 1992) 2.105-108.   Richards, Kent Harold.  "Death, Old Testament."  In Anchor Bible Dictionary (ed. David Noel Freedman et al.; New York: Doubleday, 1992) 2.108-110.   Christianity   New Testament     Christian Apocrypha   Gospels   Acts of the Apostles   Apocalypses   Christian Pseudepigrapha   Gnostic Texts and Resources     General Early Christianity   Ehrman, Bart D.  After the New Testament: A Reader in Early Christianity.  New York: Oxford University Press, 1998.     Christian and Greco-Roman Texts   Jackson-McCabe, Matt A.  Logos and Law in the Letter of James: The Law of Nature, the Law of Moses, and the Law of Freedom, NovTSup 100.  Leiden: Brill, 2001. Review   MacDonald, Dennis R.  The Homeric Epics and the Gospel of Mark.  New Haven, Connecticut: Yale University Press, 2000.     Christians in the Greco-Roman World   Broadribb, Donald.  "The Influence of Plato upon Origen's Against Celsus."  Milla wa milla 2 (1962) 17-29.   Celsus.  On the True Doctrine: A Discourse against the Christians, trans. R. Joseph Hoffmann. New York: Oxford University Press, 1987.   Conzelmann, Hans.  Gentiles, Jews, Christians: Debates in the Literature of the Hellenistic-Roman Era, trans. M. Eugene Boring.  Minneapolis: Augsburg Fortress, 1992; German original Tübingen: J. C. B. Mohr (Paul Siebeck) 1981.   Frede, Michael.  "Origen's Treatise Against Celsus."  In Apologetics in the Roman Empire (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1999) 131-155.   Gallagher, Eugene V.  Divine Man or Magician: Celsus and Origen on Jesus.  Chico, California: Scholars Press, 1982.   Grant, Robert M.  Gods and the One God, Library of Early Christianity 1. Philadelphia: Westminster, 1986.   Griggs, C. Wilfred.  Early Egyptian Christianity: From Its Origins to 451 C.E.  Leiden: Brill, 2000.   Hauck, Robert J.  The More Divine Proof: Prophecy and Inspiration in Celsus and Origen.  Atlanta: Scholars Press, 1989.   Hellerman, Wendy E., ed.  Hellenization Revisited: Shaping a Christian Response within the Greco-Roman World.  Lanham, Maryland: University Press of America, 1994.   Holum, Kenneth.  "The Christianizing of Classical Cities in the Levant."  In Religion and Politics in the Ancient Near East (ed. Adele Berlin; Bethesda, Maryland: University Press of Maryland, 1996).   Hovland, C. Warren.  "The Dialogue between Origen and Celsus."  In Pagan and Christian Anxiety: A Response to E. R. Dodds (ed. Robert C. Smith and John Lounibos; Lanham, Maryland: University Press of America, 1984) 191-216.   Kee, Howard Clark.  "Pauline Eschatology: Relationships with Apocalyptic and Stoic Thought."  In Glaube und Eschatologie: Festschrift für Werner Georg Kümmel zum 80. Geburtstag (ed. Erich Grässer and Otto Merk; Tübingen: J. C. B. Mohr [Paul Siebeck], 1985) 135-58.   Kraemer, Ross Shepard.  Her Share of the Blessings: Women's Religions Among Pagans, Jews and Christians in the Greco-Roman World.  New York: Oxford University Press, 1992.   --------.  Maenads, Martyrs, Matrons, Monastics: A Sourcebook on Women's Religions in the Greco-Roman World.  Philadelphia: Fortress, 1988.   Kraemer, Ross Shepard and Mary Rose D'Angelo, eds.  Women and Christian Origins.  New York: Oxford University Press, 1999.   Malherbe, Abraham J.  Paul and the Popular Philosophers.  Minneapolis: Fortress, 1989.   Neusner, Jacob and Ernest S. Frerichs, eds.  "To See Ourselves as Others See Us": Christians, Jews, and "Others" in Late Antiquity, SPSH.  Chico, California: Scholars Press, 1985.   Novak, Ralph Martin.  Christianity and the Roman Empire: Background Texts.  Harrisburg, Pennsylvania: Trinity Press International, 2001. Review   Origen.  Contra Celsum, trans. Henry Chadwick.  Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1965.  Notify the professor if you have trouble getting a copy.   Rist, John M.  "Beyond Stoic and Platonist: A Sample of Origen's Treatment of Philosophy (Contra Celsum: 4:62-70)."  In Platonismus und Christentum (Munster Westfallen, Germany: Aschendorff, 1983) 228-38.   Trombley, Frank R.  Hellenic Religion and Christianization (c.370-529), 2 vols.  Leiden: Brill, 2001.   Wilken, Robert L.  "Celsus: A Conservative Intellectual."  In The Christians as the Romans Saw Them (New Haven, Connecticut: Yale University Press, 1984) 94-125.   --------.  The Christians as the Romans Saw Them.  New Haven, Connecticut: Yale University Press, 1984.   Engberg-Pedersen, Troels.  Paul and the Stoics: An Essay in Interpretation.  Louisville: Westminster John Knox, 2000.     Jewish-Christian Relations in Antiquity and in the Medieval Period   Basser, Herbert W.  Studies in Exegesis: Christian Critiques of Jewish Law and Rabbinic Responses 70-300 C.E.  Leiden: Brill, 2002.   Boyarin, Daniel.  "Introduction: Judaeo-Christianity Redivivus."  Journal of Early Christian Studies 9 (2001) 417-19.   Brakke, David .  "Jerome's Judaizers."  Journal of Early Christian Studies 9 (2001) 421-52.   Brann, Ross.  Power in the Portrayal: Representations of Jews and Muslims in Eleventh- and Twelfth-Century Islamic Spain.  Princeton, New Jersey: Princeton University Press, 2002.   Conzelmann, Hans.  Gentiles, Jews, Christians: Debates in the Literature of the Hellenistic-Roman Era, trans. M. Eugene Boring.  Minneapolis: Augsburg Fortress, 1992; German original Tübingen: J. C. B. Mohr [Paul Siebeck] 1981.   Evans, Craig A. and Donald A. Hagner, eds.  Anti-Semitism and Early Christianity: Issues of Polemic and Faith.  Minneapolis: Fortress, 1993.   Flusser, David.  Judaism and the Origins of Christianity.  Jerusalem: The Magnes Press, Hebrew University, 1988.   Fonrobert, Charlotte Elisheva.  "The Didascalia Apostolorum: A Mishnah for the Disciples of Jesus."  Journal of Early Christian Studies 9 (2001) 483-509.   Gager, John G.  The Origins of Anti-Semitism: Attitudes Toward Judaism in Pagan and Christian Antiquity.  New York: Oxford University Press, 1984.   Harvey, Graham.  The True Israel: Uses of the Names Jew, Hebrew and Israel in Ancient Jewish and Early Christian Literature.  Leiden: Brill, 2001.   Lapin, Hayim, ed.  Religious and Ethnic Communities in Later Roman Palestine.  Bethesda, Maryland: University Press of Maryland, 1998.   Neusner, Jacob and Ernest S. Frerichs, eds.  "To See Ourselves as Others See Us": Christians, Jews, and "Others" in Late Antiquity, SPSH.  Chico, California: Scholars Press, 1985.   Newman, Hillel I.  "Jewish Flesh and Christian Spirit in Athanasius of Alexandria."  Journal of Early Christian Studies 9 (2001) 453-81.   Richardson, Peter and David Granskou, eds.  Anti-Judaism in Early Christianity, vol. 1, Paul and the Gospels, Studies in Christianity and Judaism 2.  Waterloo, Ontario: Wilfrid Laurier University Press, 1986.   Sanders, E. P., A. I. Baumgarten and Alan Mendelson, eds.  Jewish and Christian Self-Definition, vol. 2, Aspects of Judaism in the Graeco-Roman Period.  London: SCM, 1981) 115-56.   Segal, Alan F.  Two Powers in Heaven: Early Rabbinic Reports about Christianity and Gnosticism  Leiden: Brill, 2002.   Setzer, Claudia J.  Jewish Responses to Early Christians: History and Polemics, 30-150 C.E.   Minneapolis: Fortress, 1994.   Strickland, Debra Higgs.  Saracens, Demons, and Jews: Making Monsters in Medieval Art.  Princeton, New Jersey: Princeton University Press, 2003.   Wilson, Stephen G.  Related Strangers: Jews and Christians, 70-170 C.E.  Minneapolis: Fortress, 1995.   Wilson, Stephen G, ed.  Anti-Judaism in Early Christianity, vol. 2, Separation and Polemic, Studies in Christianity and Judaism 2. Waterloo, Ontario: Wilfrid Laurier University Press, 1986.     Christianity in Late Antiquity   Fitzgerald, Allan D. et al., eds.  Augustine through the Ages: An Encyclopedia.  Grand Rapids, Michigan: Wm. B. Eerdmans, 2000.   Meyer, Marvin W. and Richard Smith, eds.  Ancient Christian Magic: Coptic Texts of Ritual Power, Mythos.  Princeton, New Jersey: Princeton University Press, 1999.   Valantasis, Richard, ed.  Religions of Late Antiquity in Practice, Princeton Readings in Religions.  Princeton, New Jersey: Princeton University Press, 2000.     Great Figures   Crouzel, Henri.  Origen, trans. A. S. Worrall.  Edinburgh: T & T Clark, 2000.   TeSelle, Eugene.  Augustine the Theologian.  Eugene, Oregon: Wipf and Stock, 2002.         Christianity in the Byzantine Empire   Barber, Charles.  Figure and Likeness: On the Limits of Representation in Byzantine Iconoclasm.  Princeton, New Jersey: Princeton University Press, 2002.     Theological Beliefs   Gulley, Norman R.  "Death, New Testament."  In Anchor Bible Dictionary (ed. David Noel Freedman et al.; New York: Doubleday, 1992) 2.110-11.   Harris, Murray J.  Raised Immortal: Resurrection and Immortality in the New Testament.  Grand Rapids, Michigan: W. B. Eerdmans, 1983.   Islam   Qur'an   'Ali, 'Abdullah Yusuf.  The Meaning of the Holy Qur'an.  Beltsville, Maryland: Amana, 1996.     Hadith   Ibrahim, Ezzeddin and Denys Johnson-Davies.  An-Nawawi's Fouty Hadith: An Anthology of the Sayings of the Prophet Muhammad.  Cambridge: Islamic Texts Society, 1997.     Islam in the Western World   Hafez, Kai, ed.  The Islamic World and the West: An Introduction to Political Cultures and International Relations, trans. Mary Ann Kenny, Social, Economic and Political Studies o the Middle East and Asia 71.  Leiden: Brill, 2000.   Women in Islam Abou El Fadl, Khaled.  Conference of the Books: The Search for Beauty in Islam.  Lanham, Maryland: University Press of America, 2001.   Aantoun, Richard T.  Understanding Fundamentalism: Christian, Islamic and Jewish Movements.  Walnut Creek, California: Altimira.   Abu-Lugud, Laila, ed.  Remaking Women: Feminism and Modernity in the Middle East.  Princeton, Princeton University Press, 1998.   Afkhami, M.  Faith and Freedom: Women's Human Rights in the Muslim World.  London: L. B. Tauris, 1995.   Afshar, Haleh.  Women, State and Ideology in Iran, Published in Dossier 3 of Women Living Under Muslim Law (1988.)   Ali, Azra Asghar.  The Emergence of Feminism among Indian Muslim Women, 1920-1947.     Ali, Shaheen Sardar.  Gender and Human Rights in Islam and International Law: Equal before Allah, Unequal before Man?  Boston: Kluwer Law International, 2000.   Amin, Qasim.  "The Liberation of Women" and "The New Woman: Two Documents in the History of Egyptian Feminism, trans. Samiha Sidhom Peterson.  Cairo: American University in Cairo, 2000.   Anderson, J. N. 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October 1986.   Cook, Rebecca, ed.  Human Rights of Women: National and International Perspectives.  Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1994.   Cooke, Miriam.  Women Caim Islam: Creating Islamic Feminism through Literature.  New York: Routledge, 2001.   Doumato, Eleanor Abdella.  Getting God's Ear: Women, Islam, and Healing in Saudi Arabia and the Gulf.  New York: Columbia University Press, 2000.   Friedl, Erika.  Women of Deh Koh: Lives in an Iranian Village.  New York: Penguin Books, 1989.   Ghalem, Ali.  A Wife for My Son.  New York: Banner, 1984.   Haddad, Yvonne Yazbeck and Adair T. Lummis.  Islamic Values in the United States: A Comparative Study.  New York: Oxford University Press. 1987.   Hale, Sondra.  Gender Politics in Sudan: Islamism, Socialism, and the State.  Boulder, Westview, 1996.   Hurley, Jennifer A., ed.  Islam: Opposing Viewpoints.     Jaschok, Maria and Shui Jingjun.  The History of Women's Mosques in Chinese Islam: A Mosque of their Own. .  Richmond: Curzon, 2000.   Jawadi, Sayyid Zeeshan Haider.  Woman and Shari'at (Divine Law): Complete Rules Regarding Women, in Islam, trans. Mohammad Ali Abde Ali.  Syracuse, New York: Syracuse University Press, 2000.   Kabeer, Naila.  The Quest for National Identity: Women, Islam and the State in Bangladesh.  Brighton, England: Institute of Development Studies at the University of Sussex, 1989.   Kandiyoti, Denis.  "Women, Islam and the State: A Comparative Approach."  In Comparing Muslim Societies: Knowledge and the State in World Civilization (ed. Juan Cole; Michigan University Press, 1992).   Kusha, Hamid.  The Sacred Law of Islam: A Case Study of Women's Treatment in the Islamic World. .  Lund, Sweden: Religionshistoriska avdelningen, Lunds universitet/Almqvist & Wiksell, 2000.   Loffler, Reinhold.  Islam in Practice: Religious Beliefs in a Persian Village.  Albany: State University of New York Press, 1988.   Mayer, Ann Elizabeth.  Islam and Human Rights: Traditions and Politics.  London: Westview, 1991.   Mernissi, Fatima.  The Veil and the Male Elite: A Feminist Interpretation of Women's Rights in Islam.  Reading, Massachusetts: Addison Wesley, 1991.   --------.  The Forgotten Queens of Islam.  University of Minnesota Press, 1993.   Metcalf, Barbara Daly, ed.  Making Muslim Space in North America and Europe.  Berkeley: University of California Press, 1996.   Minai, Naila.  Women in Islam: Tradition and Transition in the Middle East.  New York: Sea View, 1981.   Moghadam, Valentine.  "Revolution, Religion, and Gender Politics: Iran and Afghanistan Compared."  Journal of Women's History 10 (4 1999) 172 ff.   Moghadam.  "Revolution, the State, Islam, and Women: Gender Politics in Iran and Afghanistan."  Women Living Under Muslim Law, Dossier 7 (8 1991) 34.   Pinault, David.  Horse of Karbala: Muslim Devotional Life in India.  New York: Palgrave. 2001.   Rahman, Afzal ur.  Role of Muslim Woman in Society.  London: Seerah Foundation, 1986.   Raines, John C. and Daniel C. Maguire, eds.  What Men Owe to Women: Men's Voices from World Religions.  Albany: State University of New York Press, 2001.   Rashid, Ahmed.  Taliban: Militant Islam, Oil and Fundamentalism in Central Asia.     Rizzo, Helen Mary.  Islam, Democracy and the Status of Women: The Case of Kuwait.  2001.   Roald, Anne Sofie.  Women in Islam: The Western Experience.  New York: Routledge, 2001.   Roded, Ruth.  Women, Islam and the Middle East: A Reader.  London/San Diego: I. B. Tauris/Greenhaven.   Runzo, Joseph and Nancy M. Martin, eds.  Love, Sex and Gender in the World Religions.  Boston:   Scott, Kieran and Michael Warren, ed.  Perspectives on Marriage: A Reader.  New York: Oxford University Press, 2001.   Siddiqi, Muhammad Iqbal.  Islam Forbids Free Mixing of Men and Women.  Lahore: Kazi.   Svensson, Jonas.  Women's Human Rights and Islam: A Study of Three Attempts at Accommodation.     Webb, Gisela, ed.  Windows of Faith : Muslim Women Scholar-Activists in North America.     Other Ancient Religions   Cult of Mithras   Betz, Hans Dieter.  The "Mithras Liturgy": Text, Translation and Commentary, Studien und Texte zu Antike und Christentum 18.  Tübingen: Mohr Siebeck, 2003.   Stratton, Kimberly B.  "The Mithras Liturgy and Sepher Ha-Razim."  In Religions of Late Antiquity in Practice (ed. Richard Valantasis; Princeton Readings in Religions.  Princeton, New Jersey: Princeton University Press, 2000) 303-315.     The Manichaeans   BeDuhn, Jason David.  "Manichaean Asceticism."  In Religions of Late Antiquity in Practice (ed. Richard Valantasis; Princeton Readings in Religions.  Princeton, New Jersey: Princeton University Press, 2000) 122-30.   --------.  "Manichaean Hymnody."  In Religions of Late Antiquity in Practice, 364-8.   --------.  "Manichaean Ritual."  In Religions of Late Antiquity in Practice, 316-21.   --------.  "Manichaean Theology."  In Religions of Late Antiquity in Practice, 481-8.     Zoroastrianism   Religion and Popular Culture   General Studies       Religion in Film   Please see the bibliography for PMIN 221 - Jesus: Real to Real.     Religion in Popular Literature   Anderson, Philip Longfellow.  The Gospel in Disney: Christian Values in the Early Animated Classics.  Minneapolis: Augsburg Fortress, 2004.   Moore, R. Laurence.  Touchdown Jesus: The Mixing of Sacred and Secular in American History.  Louisville: Westminster John Knox   Neal, Connie.  The Gospel According to Harry Potter: Spirituality in the Stories of the World's Most Famous Seeker.  Louisville: Westminster John Knox, 2002.   Pinsky, Mark I.  The Gospel according to Disney: Faith, Trust, and Pixie Dust.  Louisville: Westminster John Knox, 2004.   --------.  The Gospel according to The Simpsons: The Spiritual Life of the World's Most Animated Family.  Louisville: Westminster John Knox, 2001.   Wood, Ralph C.  The Gospel according to Tolkien: Visions of the Kingdom in Middle-earth.  Louisville: Westminster John Knox, 2003.     Religion in Popular Music   Pinn, Anthony B.  Noise and Spirit: The Religious and Spiritual Sensibilities of Rap Music.  New York University Press, 2004.     © 2017 C. M. 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