Early Gentile Christianity and Its Hellenistic Background

American Attis baptism belief Bousset bread Bultmann Casel century A.D. Christ Church Clemen covenant cult Cumont death deities Dibelius Didache Dionysus divine Dölger earlier early Christian Edited Egypt Egyptian Eleusis Essays Eucharist F. C. Burkitt faith Gentile gnosis Gnostic gods Gospel Greek Hellenistic Hermes Hermetic History holy idea Illus influence initiation inscription Intro Isis Jerusalem Jesus Jewish Jews John Judaism Kyrios L. R. Farnell later Lietzmann liturgies Loisy Lord magic Mandaean MARTIN BUBER meals metaphor Mithraism Mithras Myst Myst.³ Mystères mysteries mysterion mystic myth Nilsson Old Testament pagan parallel Paul Paul's Pauline Pauly-Wissowa Philo philosophy prayer rebirth Reitzenstein religion religious remarked Renaissance rite ritual Roman sacraments sacrifice Sallustius Sarapis says sense Septuagint Social Soter soteria Spirit Stoic Stoicism Strack-Billerbeck Studies telete term thought tion tradition Trans W. L. Knox Wetter words worship Zeus καὶ τοῦ