Includes bibliographical references and index.

Part 1: The Graeco-Roman Religious World -- Part 2: Oracular Dreaming -- Part 3: Graeco-Roman Mysteries -- Part 4: Hellenistic Judaism and Christianity -- Part 5: Gnosticism.

Introduction: General Characteristics of the Hellenistic Era / Panayotis Pachis -- Greek and Roman Philosophy and Religion -- The Very Idea of Globalization: The Case of Hellenistic Empire -- Fate, Futurity, and Historical Consciousness in Western Antiquity -- Why Cecropian Minerva? Hellenistic Religious Syncretism as System -- Kingship and the Consolidation of Religiopolitical Power during the Hellenistic Period -- Biology, Sociology, and the Study of Religion: Two Lectures -- Religion and Dream Theory in Late Antiquity -- Prayer in Graeco-Roman Religions -- Petitionary Prayer in the Graeco-Roman World: Comparison, Consequences, Congnition, and a few Conclusions -- Imagistic Traditions in the Graeco-Roman World -- Those Elusive Eleusinian Mystery Shows -- Greek Goddesses and Grain: The Sicilian Connection -- History, Cognitive Science, and the Problematic Study of Folk Religions: The Case of the Eleusinian Mysteries of Demeter -- Mithras, Milites and Bovine Legs: A Response to Aleš Chalupa and Thamáš Glomb, "The Third Symbol of the Miles Grade on the Floor Mosaic of the Felicissimus Mithraeum in Ostia: A New Interpretation" -- "Star Talk": Native Competence; Initiatory Comprehension -- When Size Matters: Social Formations in the Graeco-Roman World -- Josephus's use of Heimarmenē in the Jewish Antiquities 8.171-173 -- Gods or Ambassadors of God? Barnabas and Paul in Lystra -- The Hellenisation of Judaeo-Christian Faith or the Christianisation of Hellenic Thought? -- The Encyclopedia Hellenistica and Christian Origins -- Past Minds: Evolution, Cognition, and Biblical Studies -- Genealogy and Sociology in the Apocalypse of Adam -- Technologies of the Self and Self-Knowledge in the Syrian Thomas Tradition -- Self and Power in the Thought of Plotinus.

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