num_pages: 432
description: Evokes the sights and sounds of the ancient world with daring and imagination An intellectual tour-de-force that challenges us to see the history of Christianity through the eyes of those who actually lived it. Los Angeles TimesIn this provocative irresistibly entertaining book Keith Hopkins takes readers back in time to explore the roots of Christianity in ancient Rome. Combining exacting scholarship with dazzling invention Hopkins challenges our perceptions about religion the historical Jesus and the way history is written. He puts us in touch with what he calls empathetic wonderimagining what Romans pagans Jews and Christians thought felt experienced and believed-by employing a series of engaging literary devices. These include a TV drama about the Dead Sea Scrolls; the first-person testimony of a pair of time-travelers to Pompeii; a meditation on Jesus' apocryphal twin brother; and an unusual letter on God demons and angels.
language: English
title: A World Full of Gods: The Strange Triumph of Christianity
publisher: Plume