Review of Gods, spirits, and worship in the Greco-Roman world and early Christianity (ed. Evans & Wright)

BRYN MAYR CLASSICAL REVIEW: Gods, spirits, and worship in the Greco-Roman world and early Christianity.

Craig A. Evans, Adam Z. Wright, Gods, spirits, and worship in the Greco-Roman world and early Christianity. Jewish and Christian texts in contexts and related studies, 23. London; New York: T & T Clark, 2022. Pp. 280. ISBN 9780567703262

Review by
Fritz Naerebout, Leiden Universty (retired). frits@naerebout.com; f.g.naerebout@gmail.com

This volume contains twelve papers by twelve authors, including both editors, that claims to offer “innovative studies that focus on the ways Jews and Christians in late antiquity appropriated, interpreted, and presented afresh the sacred traditions of the past”. It looks like a somewhat haphazard collection, which might be because it is a Festschrift, a type of publication that usually features rather arbitrary compilations, dedicated to Hans Dieter Betz on the occasion of his ninetieth birthday. ...

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