"This profoundly learned work set Tertullian’s famous dictum, 'What has Athens to do with Jerusalem?' on its head. Hengel discarded the dichotomy and demonstrated once for all the entangled overlap of Jewish and Hellenic cultures not only in the diaspora but in Palestine itself. The field has never been the same since."

Recommended by Erich S. Gruen, Professor of History and Classics and author of Rethinking the Other in Antiquity.