Mission and Conversion: Proselytizing in the Religious History of the Roman Empire (Clarendon Paperbacks)

by Martin Goodman (Author)

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  Paperback
  1995

  $43.78

  This text tackles a central problem of Jewish and comparative religious history: proselytization and the origins of mission in the Early Church. The author offers a controversial theory that mission is not an inherent religious instinct, and that its importance was rarely stressed in antiquity.