<p>First published in 1972, this collection presents fifty-nine essays by the great scholar Arthur Darby Nock.</p>

Essays on Religion and the Ancient World

History

Nock, Arthur Darby

World

Oxford University Press

St Paul

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Franklin Classics

Throughout his career Arthur Darby Nock (1902-1963) made unique and lasting contributions to classical scholarship and the history of religion, especially to the study of ancient religion, magic, and the relation of paganism to early Christianity and Judaism. Nock's genius showed itself early: endowed with a prodigious memory and an unerring linguistic skill, he combined speed and accuracy in reading and a delight in the discovery, ordering and establishment of facts. At the age of twenty he was made annual reviewer of Latin literature for The Year's Work in Classical Studies; and at twenty-four he produced an important edition of a fourth-century Greek text, Sallustius On the Gods and the Universe, which included a translation and a masterly introduction.At twenty-seven, having come to the United States from England the year before, Nock was appointed Frothingham Professor of the History of Religion at Harvard University. In his early thirties he wrote two books, Conversion--an imaginative and exacting study of religious currents in the Hellenistic and Roman world--and St. Paul. Mainly, however, A. D. Nock poured his immense learning into articles and reviews, which heretofore have been scattered through many different journals. Representing a formidable range of learning, these essays deal for the most part with historical evidence (from all sources, including papyri, inscriptions, and coins) of the beliefs, superstitions, and religious practices of ordinary people. Nock saw the essence of religion not only in philosophy ortheology, but in piety and cult, in the practices and the expressions of the common man. His unusual combination of genius and common sense allowed him to treat the actual manifestations of religious sentiment without condescension.For this edition of Arthur Darby Nock's writings, Zeph Stewart has garnered a substantial selection of Nock's most important essays and has indexed and cross-referenced them as well.

Essays on Religion and the Ancient World, Volume 1: Selected and edited, with and Introduction, Bibliography of Nock's writings, and Indexes, by Zeph Stewart

Harvard University Press

Essays on Religion and the Ancient World, Volume 2: Selected and edited, with and Introduction, Bibliography of Nock's writings, and Indexes, by Zeph Stewart

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Essays on Religion and the Ancient World (2 Volumes)

Originally published in 1933, Conversion is a seminal study of the psychology and circumstances of conversion from about 500 B.C.E. to about 400 A.D. A.D. Nock not only discusses early Christianity and its converts, but also examines non-Christian religions and philosophy, the means by which they attracted adherents, and the factors influencing and limiting their success. Christianity succeeded, he argues, in part because it acquired and adapted those parts of other philosophies and religions that had a popular appeal.

Conversion: The Old and the New in Religion from Alexander the Great to Augustine of Hippo (Brown Classics in Judaica)

Univ Pr of Amer

Sallustius: Concerning the Gods and the Universe (English, Ancient Greek and Ancient Greek Edition)

Politics & Social Sciences

Sallustius

Philosophy

Ares Pub

<p>Originally published in 1926, this book contains the ancient Greek text of the fourth-century treatise Concerning the Gods and the Universe by Sallustius. Nock provides an English translation on each facing page, as well as a critical apparatus and a detailed set of prolegomena on the historical background, sources, style and transmission of the philosophical essay. This book will be of value to anyone with an interest in late Roman philosophy and in the pagan response to early Christianity.</p>

Sallustius: Concerning the Gods and the Universe (English and Ancient Greek Edition)

Cambridge University Press

Andesite Press

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Biographies & Memoirs

Hesperides Press

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Essays on Religion and the Ancient World

St Paul

Essays on Religion and the Ancient World, Volume 1: Selected and edited, with and Introduction, Bibliography of Nock's writings, and Indexes, by Zeph Stewart

Essays on Religion and the Ancient World, Volume 2: Selected and edited, with and Introduction, Bibliography of Nock's writings, and Indexes, by Zeph Stewart

Essays on Religion and the Ancient World (2 Volumes)

Conversion: The Old and the New in Religion from Alexander the Great to Augustine of Hippo (Brown Classics in Judaica)

Sallustius: Concerning the Gods and the Universe (English, Ancient Greek and Ancient Greek Edition)

Sallustius: Concerning the Gods and the Universe (English and Ancient Greek Edition)

St Paul

St Paul