Filled with the Spirit

Containing meticulous, up-to-date scholarship yet written in a flowing, enjoyable style, this comprehensive book takes readers on a journey through a breathtaking array of literary texts, encompassing the literature of Israel, early Judaism, the Greco-Roman world, and the New Testament. John R. Levison's skill with ancient texts — already demonstrated in his acclaimed The Spirit in First-Century Judaism — is here extended to a myriad of other expressions of the Spirit in antiquity.

Containing meticulous, up-to-date scholarship yet written in a flowing, enjoyable style, this comprehensive book takes readers on a journey through a breathtaking array of literary texts, encompassing the literature of Israel, early Judaism, the Greco-Roman world, and the New Testament. John R. Levison's skill with ancient texts - already demonstrated in his acclaimed The Spirit in First-Century Judaism - is here extended to a myriad of other expressions of the Spirit in antiquity.

John R. Levison is professor of New Testament at Seattle Pacific University. His other books include The Spirit in First-Century Judaism, Texts in Transition: The Greek Life of Adam and Eve, and Jesus in Global Contexts. He is also the founding editor of the series Ekstasis: Religious Experience from Antiquity to the Middle Ages.