"In this fascinating study of antiquity, Thomas Finn explores the role of ritual and conversion in Judaism, Christianity, Greco-Roman Paganism, and the philosop

Religious conversion - a shift in membership from one community of faith to another - can take diverse forms in radically different circumstances. As the essays

The decades-long effort to understand the apostle Paul within his Jewish context is now firmly established in scholarship on early Judaism, as well as on Paul.

Revision of author's thesis (Ph.D.)--Oxford University, 2002.