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• 88:1 January The Attraction of Aristocratic Women to Pharisaism During the 1 Second Temple Period Tal llan The Early Church: Internal Jewish Migration or New Religion? 35 Dieter Georgi

Four Entered Paradise Revisited 69 Alon Goshen Gottstein John Chrysostom on Philemon: A Second Look 135 Margaret M. Mitchell Allen Dwight Callahan's Response to Margaret M. Mitchell 149

Ancient and High-Medieval Interpretations of in Gethsemane: 157 Some Reflections on Tradition and Continuity in Christian Thought Kevin Madigan

Notes and Observations "Think of the Lilies" and Prov 6:6-11 175 John N. Jones

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The Ladder of Jacob 209 James Kugel Influence of Thomas Christianity on Luke 12:14 and 5:39 229 Gregory J. Riley Language, Metaphor, and Chalcedon: A Case of Theological 237 Double Vision Stephen W. Need Nature and Scripture: Demise of a Medieval Analogy 257 Willemien Otten Books Received 285 • 88:3 July

Revelation, Realia, and Religion: Archaeology in the Interpretation 291 of the Apocalypse Steven J. Friesen The "Horned Hunter" on a Lost Gnostic Gem 315 Roy Kotansky and Jeffrey Spier Meaning and Reference in Maimonides' Negative Theology 339 Ehud Z. Benor A Hidden Opponent in Spinoza's Tractatus 361 /. Samuel Preus Face of Mystery, Mystery of a Face: An Anthropological Trajectory 389 in Wittgenstein, Cavell, and Kaufman's Biohistorical Theology Alec Irwin

Books Received 411

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Theos Epiphanes: Crisis and Response 415 R. A. Hazzard

What Shall We Say that Abraham Found? The Controversy behind 437 Romans 4 Thomas H. Tobin, SJ. The Language of Apocalypse 453 Allen Dwight Callahan The Rhetoric of Marginality: Apocalypticism, , and 471 Sayings Gospels William E. Arnal Through the Void: The Absence of God in R. Nahman of Bratzlav's 495 Likkutei MoHaRan Shaul Magid Summaries of Doctoral Dissertations 521

Books Received 537

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William E. Arnal The Rhetoric of Marginality: Apocalypticism, Gnosticism, and Sayings Gospels 471 Ehud Z. Benor Meaning and Reference in Maimonides' Negative Theology 339 Allen Dwight Callahan The Language of Apocalypse 453 Allen Dwight Callahan Response to Margaret M. Mitchell 149 Steven J. Friesen Revelation, Realia, and Religion: Archaeology in the Interpretation of the Apocalypse 291 Dieter Georgi The Early Church: Internal Jewish Migration or New Religion? 35 Alon Goshen Gottstein Four Entered Paradise Revisited 69 R. A. Hazzard Theos Epiphanes: Crisis and Response 415 Tal Ilan The Attraction of Aristocratic Women to Pharisaism During the Second Temple Period 1 Alec Irwin Face of Mystery, Mystery of a Face: An Anthropological Trajectory in Wittgenstein, Cavell, and Kaufman's Biohistorical Theology 389 John N. Jones "Think of the Lilies" and Prov 6:6-11 175 Roy Kotansky and The "Horned Hunter" on a Lost Gnostic Jeffrey Spier Gem 315 James Kugel The Ladder of Jacob 209 John R. Levison The Prophetic Spirit as an Angel According to Philo 189 Kevin Madigan Ancient and High-Medieval Interpretations of Jesus in Gethsemane: Some Reflections on Tradition and Continuity in Christian Thought 157 Shaul Magid Through the Void: The Absence of God in R. Nahman of Bratzlav's Likkutei MoHaRan 495 Margaret M. Mitchell John Chrysostom on Philemon: A Second Look 135

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