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[A] book that should be read by anyone who is interested in Judaism and, above all, in ancient Christianity ... [An] essential book for the history of religions. * Myrtia (Bloomsbury translation) * In The Origin of Sin, the classicist David Konstan offers an enlightening comparison between the concepts of sin in the literature of Greece and Rome on the one hand, and Judaism and Christianity on the other … [H]is argument carries much conviction and sheds interesting light on the distinctiveness of the founding ethos of both Judaism and Christianity within their cultural milieux. * The Expository Times *

[A] book that should be read by anyone who is interested in Judaism and, above all, in ancient Christianity ... [An] essential book for the history of religions. * Myrtia (Bloomsbury translation) *

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David Konstan is Professor of Classics at New York University, USA. Among his books are Friendship in the Classical World (1997), Pity Transformed (2001), The Emotions of the Ancient Greeks (2006), Before Forgiveness: The Origins of a Moral Idea (2010) and In the Orbit of Love: Affection in Ancient Greece and Rome (2018). He is a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and an Honorary Fellow of the Australian Academy of the Humanities.

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