Vol. <2> edited by E.P. Sanders, with A.I. Baumgarten and Alan Mendelson

Vol. <2>: 1st Fortress Press Ed

Vol. <3> edited by Ben F. Meyer and E.P. Sanders

Includes bibliographical references and indexes

v. 3. Craft versus sect: the problem of Orphics and Pythagoreans / Walter Burkert -- Are you a Stoic?: the case of Marcus Aurelius / John M. Rist -- Self-definition among Epicureans and Cynics / Abraham J. Malherbe -- Self-definition in later Platonism / John M. Dillon -- Hairesis and heresy: the case of the haireseis iatrikai / Heinrich von Staden -- Sarapis and Isis / Tran tam Tinh -- Self-definition in the Asclepius cult / Howard C. Kee -- Changing Dionysiac identities / Albert Henrichs -- Formation of authoritative tradition in the Greek magical papyri / Hans Dieter Betz -- Imperial cult: perceptions and persistence / G.W. Bowersock

This series explores the way in which both Judaism and Christianity moved towwards normative self-definition in the first centuries of the common era