The Author: Dag Oistein Endsjo is Associate Professor in Religious Studies at the University of Bergen, Norway, specializing in Greek religion and early Christianity.
"Dag Oistein Endsjo's 'Primordial Landscapes, Incorruptible Bodies' is a pioneering attempt to interpret the life of Saint Antony within its wider Greco-Roman context and not only in Christian terms. Endsjo's innovative argument should provoke wide discussion and initiate a much-needed conversation about the relationship between Christian hagiography and traditional religion in antiquity. This book will interest students of ancient religion and not just specialists in Athanasius or asceticism." (David Brakke, Professor and Chair, Religious Studies Department, Indiana University) "Dag Oistein Endsjo shows how Antony's successful ascetic labors in the desert and the resulting incorruptibility of his body could have been understood from the perspective of a traditional Greek worldview in terms of the traditional hero and his amazing feats in peripheral lands. In a striking manner, Endsjo helps to overcome the Judaism/Hellenism divide that plagues scholarship's attempts to understand early Christianity." (Troels Engberg-Pedersen, Professor of New Testament Studies, University of Copenhagen)
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