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The Dawn of Christianity

People and Gods in a Time of Magic and Miracles

Robert C. Knapp

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Exploring the origins of Christianity, this book looks at why it was that people first in Judea and then in the Roman and Greek Mediterranean world became susceptible to the new religion. Robert Knapp looks for answers in a wide-ranging exploration of religion and everyday life from 200 BC to the end of the first century.

Survival, honour and wellbeing were the chief preoccupations of Jews and polytheists alike. In both cases, the author shows, people turned first to supernatural powers. According to need, season and place polytheists consulted and placated vast constellations of gods, while the Jews worshipped and contended with one almighty and jealous deity.

Professor Knapp considers why any Jew or polytheist would voluntarily dispense with a well-tried way of dealing with the supernatural and trade it in for a new model. What was it about the new religion that led people to change beliefs they had held for millennia and which in turn, within four centuries of the birth of its messiah, led it to transform the western world? His conclusions are as convincing as they are sometimes surprising.

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A most readable and enjoyable overview of religion in the Roman Empire ... an excellent book.

Knapp discovers the hopes, dreams and lives of ordinary people living under Imperial Rome ... a remarkably kind and thoughtful book.
Hugely ambitious ... entertaining as well as informative</p>
<p>Praise for <i>Invisible Romans</i>:<br>'

This unusual and scholarly book is rich with revelation.

If you like your information to come thick and fast, this is the book for you

Fascinating ... Knapp puts [his] case forcefully and well.
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Christianity, Jew, history of Roman empire, origins, polytheist, Professor Emeritus, Judea, University of California, ancient religion, western world, Robert Knapp, ancient history, Berkeley, Invisible Romans, polytheism, messiah, religion, Judaism, 200 BC, first century