«This book is in many ways a groundbreaking investigation of a significant religious concept. It should be widely read by scholars of religion in the ancient Mediterranean.»

Tony Keddie, Bryn Mawr Classical Review

«This is an important study for the backdrop of the New Testament vocabulary relating to salvation... It emphasises the stable and persistent this-worldly sense of the word group over almost a millennium.»

Christoph Stenschke, Filología Neotestamentaria

«Jim's book (particularly chapters 2, 3, and 4) is an excellent account, with well-chosen and well sorted examples, of the wide variety of individual and communal experiences of being saved by gods in Greek antiquity. Not only historians of Greek religion will find it interesting and helpful. Any further studies on the literary and philosophical values of soteria in ancient Greece will have to depart from her careful analysis of the epigraphic evidence.»

Miguel Herrero de Jáuregui, Revue des livres

«The reader will profit from the panorama of nearly one millennium of evidence on the use of "savior" terminology in the Greek world»

Glen L. Thompson, Wisconsin Lutheran Quarterly, Vol. 120

«Jim's volume should be found on the top of their "to read" lists.»

Nickolas P. Roubekas, Religious Studies Review