Peter G Bolt. Editorial: Conversations about Ancient TextsAdam Z. Wright, The Historical Jesus and Mythology: An Evaluation of Mythicist ThoughtHans M. Moscicke, Jesus' Three-Day Journey in the Belly of the Sea Monster: Jonah Typologies and Traditions in Matthew's Passion NarrativeBart B. Bruehler, Jesus' Mission of Proclamation and The Problem of Popularity: A Pragmatic Dimension to the Secrecy Elements in the Gospel of MarkJohn A. Davies, The Markan Alphab...

Scholars have long debated the genre of the Gospels and many opinions have been put forward, such as biography, history, epic, or comedy. However, do the Gospels actually reflect these ancient genres? This book addresses this question and arrives at the conclusion that the Gospel of Mark was written as an ancient form of tragedy. Why would this matter to ancient or modern readers? Tragedy addresses the fundamental question of humanity's suffering and offers a philosophical perspective that...

Greco-Roman religions and superstitions, and early Christianity's engagement with them, are explored in 12 unique studies. The beliefs and fears with regard to demons (or daimons), their origins, and threatening behavior are examined, both in their pagan and Judaeo-Christian contexts. These new studies look at the Greco-Roman heroic gods, how they faced death, and how James and John, the “sons of Thunder,” may well have been viewed in some circles as the equivalent of the “sons of Zeus”, C...

How do you mend a broken heart? . . . Put it back into the sorceress it came out of.There's only one way to lift Mallory's death curse and Alec will do anything to save his friend.

If you can keep your cool when everyone else is losing theirs . . . maybe you don't realize how bad the situation really is.Rekhmire the Destroyer wants to annihilate the world (that's usually what destroyers do) and he isn't going to stop until he's achieved his stretch goal of turning everyone into a soldier for his undead army. Not on my watch. It's time to send this walking piece of leather back to the tomb he crawled out of. But how am I supposed to do that wh...

A game of witches and spells . . . and thirteen magical bones.I'm back in Dearmont, and confused as hell. The world I left behind was on the brink of an apocalypse but now it's business as usual. New case, new mystery, new danger. Sounds fun, right?When a mega-rich guy with a penchant for occult relics creates a televised competition to find thirteen magical bones, I'm all in. I have to win this thing to make sure the supernatural equivalent of a nuclear bo...

If you love someone, set them free . . . If they come back, they could be a zombieSomeone is trying to kill Charles Hawthorne, one of the richest men in Maine. And they're using magic to do it.He suspects the members of his own family and hires me to check them out. I soon discover that Charles Hawthorne has a dark secret lurking in his past; a secret that may have come back to haunt him.With an ancient wizard bugging me to chase down the Midnight C...

The Destroyer of Worlds isn't always the Bad GuyI was the guy you came to when your spouse got bitten by a werewolf, or your boyfriend was kidnapped by a demon. I was the guy who knew what to do when an evil sorcerer casts a curse on you.At least, I WAS that guy.Until I destroyed the world.Now . . . I'm the guy who's gonna save it.

Be careful what you wish for . . . it might be inhabited by a demonWhen a case takes me to the wilderness of Northern Maine, I'm not even sure there's a paranormal angle. Two girls walked into the woods one night and only one of them came back. She's so traumatized by what she saw that she hasn't spoken a word since.The police come up empty-handed so the girl's father hires me to find out what happened. Getting out of Dearmont for a while seems like a good ...

The night is dark . . . and full of preternatural killersIf Jason, Michael, and Freddy were merged into one being and given supernatural powers, the result would be something like Mister Scary. He's been carrying out his murders from the Shadow Land for way too long now. It's time to put him down.

Smile, and the world smiles with you. Cause an apocalypse, and the Hounds drag you to Purgatory.After the events of Final Magic, Alec finds himself in a place where life is cheap and death is a constant companion.Time to win new friends and avoid new enemies.

There is a question sometimes put to scholars, a doubt often latent in scholars’ minds—How was it that Greek civilisation, with all its high ideals and achievements, fell so easily before what seems at first sight an altogether inferior culture? The difficulty is not solved by a reference to military resources or administrative skill, for moral strength is the only thing that matters in history, and a nation has never yet succeeded merely by pure intellect or by brute force. The fact is—an...