Feel what it’s like
James Davidson: Pagans, Jews and Christians, 2 March 2000
A World Full of Gods: Pagans, Jews and Christians in the Roman Empire
by Keith Hopkins.
Weidenfeld, 402 pp., £25, November 1999,0 297 81982 8 Show More
by Keith Hopkins.
Weidenfeld, 402 pp., £25, November 1999,
“... are metaphorical, miracles are publicity, designed to launch a new religion, whose main point lay elsewhere. ‘Jesus is our Saviour,’ let’s leave it at that. Or are you finally one of the countless multitude who don’t consider themselves Christian, but not atheist either, one of those who vaguely sympathise? All that stuff about virgins and ... ”