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A World Full of Gods: Pagans, Jews and Christians in the Roman Empire Condition:Like New With 14 years' experience asIn this provocative, irresistibly entertaining book, Keith Hopkins takes readers back in time to explore the roots of Christianity in ancient Rome. Combining exacting scholarship with dazzling invention, Hopkins challenges our perceptions about religion, the historical Jesus, and the way history is written. He puts us in touch with what he calls "empathetic wonder" imagining what Romans, pagans, Jews, and Christians thought, felt, experienced, and