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Leaving the Fold: Apostates and Defectors in Antiquity. By Stephen G. Wilson. Minneapolis: Fortress, 2004. xvii and 158 pages. Cloth. $25.00.

Scholars have written much about evangelism and conversion in the New Testament and early church but very little about how conversions looked to members of the group left behind. Wilson, Professor of Religion at Carleton University in Ottawa, Canada, notes that a study of "apostasy remains a desideratum" and seeks "to draw attenti...