Description: This collection of essays presents Judaism and emerging Christianity within the framework of religious competition in antiquity during the first centuries before and after the Common Era.
Review Quotes: 'Anyone interested in the history of religions for the late Hellenistic era will welcome this volume.'
Fred W. Burnett, Religious Studies Review, 1995.
'It certainly is a most representative tribute to a scholar who has himself stimulated New Testament research in this respect, as can be seen from the repeated references to his publications.'
J. Verheyden, Ephemerides Theologicae Lovanienses
'Rarely does a Festschrift follow the interest of the individual it honors more closely than this collection of essays in honour of Dieter Georgi.'
AR, Journal for the Study of the New Testament, 1995.