Empsychoi Logoi - Religious Innovations in Antiquity. Studies in Honour of Pieter Willem van der Horst (Ancient Judaism and Early Christianity 73).

The fact that religions show internal variation and develop over time is not only a problem for believers, but has also long engaged scholars. This is especially true for the religions of the ancient world, where the mere idea of innovation in religious matters evoked notions of revolution and destruction. With the emergence of new religious identities from the first century onwards, we begin to find traces of an entirely new vision of religion. The question was not whether a particular belief was new, but whether it was true and the two were no longer felt to be mutually exclusive. The present volume brings together articles that study this transformation, ranging from broad overviews to detailed case-studies.

Alberdina Houtman, Ph.D. (1995) in Jewish Studies, University of Utrecht, is Professor of Jewish Studies and lecturer in Semitic languages at the Protestant Theological University in Kampen. She has published extensively on Rabbinic literature, with a special emphasis on Targumic studies.
Albert de Jong, Ph.D. (1996) in Religious Studies, University of Utrecht, is lecturer in Religious Studies in the University of Leiden, Faculty of Religious Studies. He has published extensively on the religious history of the ancient world, with a particular focus on Zoroastrianism.
Magda Misset-van de Weg, Ph.D. (1997) in New Testament, University of Utrecht, has taught New Testament studies in the universities of Utrecht, Nijmegen, Amsterdam and Kampen. The main focus of her work is the exegesis of the New Testament and Christian apocryphal literature.
Contributors include: Keimpe Algra, Bob Becking, Wout van Bekkum, Jan den Boeft, Jan Bremmer, Roel van den Broek, Martin Goodman, Jan Willem van Henten, Jens Herzer, Alberdina Houtman, Albert de Jong, Hermann Lichtenberger, Bert Jan Lietaert Peerbolte, Jaap Mansfeld, Maarten Menken, Annette Merz, Magda Misset-van de Weg, Gerard Mussies, Judith Newman, Tobias Nicklas, Karl-Wilhelm Niebuhr, Eric Ottenheijm, Geert van Oyen, Marcel Poorthuis, Gerard Rouwhorst, David Runia, Huub van de Sandt, Peter Schäfer, Greg Sterling, Guy Stroumsa, Teun Tieleman, Eibert Tigchelaar, Emanuel Tov, Johannes Tromp, Klaas Worp, Irene Zwiep.