Seeing the God

"e;When people prayed, they expected their gods to come,"e; wrote Robin Lane Fox, providing the impetus for this volume of collected essays exploring the concept of how the ancients "e;envisioned"e; the deities within various ancient religious traditions. The perspectives of Judaism, Gnosticism, Syriac Christianity, Byzantium, and Classical Greco-Roman religion and philosophy are considered. Specific emphasis is given to phenomena such as dreams, visions, and initiatory rites mediating the divine encounter.