Religious Rivalries in the Early Roman Empire and the Rise of Christianity

Studies in Christianity and Judaism /

Études sur le christianisme et le judaïsme : 18

Studies in Christianity and Judaism / Études sur le christianisme et le

judaïsme publishes monographs on Christianity and Judaism in the last two

centuries before the common era and the first six centuries of the com-

mon era, with a special interest in studies of their interrelationship or the

cultural and social context in which they developed.

GENERALEDITOR: Stephen G. Wilson Carleton University

EDITORIALBOARD: Paula Fredrickson Boston University

John Gager Princeton University

Olivette Genest Université de Montréal

Paul-Hubert Poirier Université Laval

Adele Reinhartz University of Ottawa

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