Vigiliae Christianae Vigiliae Christianae 65 (2011) 222-226 brill.nl/vc Books Received Ashwin-Siejkowski, Piotr, Clement of Alexandria on Trial. The Evidence of ‘Heresy’ from Photius’ Bibliotheca (Supplements to Vigiliae Christianae 101), Leiden- Boston: Brill 2010, xvii + 185 pp., ISBN 978-90-04-17627-0, € 93 / US$ 132 (hardback).—‘. provides a new perspective on Clement’s thought, through a critical examination of the work of one of his critics, Photios (c. 820-893 CE). Photios, the Patriarch of Constantinople, based his critique on Clement’s (now lost) “Hypotyposeis”, claiming the work contained eight “heresies”. The book examines each “error” listed in the 109th codex of Photius’ “Bibliotheca” in depth, using evidence from Clement’s existing work to consider the likely accuracy of Photius’ critique’. Dijkstra, Jitze, Justin Kroesen & Yme Kuiper (eds.), Myths, Martyrs, and Moder- nity. Studies in the History of Religions in Honour of Jan N. Bremmer (Numen Book Series 127), Leiden-Boston 2010, LVI + 701 pp., ISBN 978-90-04-18089-5, € 188 /US$ 278 (hardback).—Festschrift for the Groningen History of Religions scholar Jan Bremmer, who also extensively published on the acts of the martyrs and the so-called apocryphal acts of the apostles. Contributions related to the scope of this journal: K. Dowden, ‘Rationales for the Adoption of Christianity’ (409-424); I. Czachesz, ‘Rewriting and Textual Fluidity in Antiquity: Exploring the Socio-cultural and Psychological Context of Earliest Christian Literacy’ (425- 441); P. Piovanelli, ‘Thomas in Edessa? Another Look at the Original Setting of the Gospel of Thomas’ (443-461); E. Thomassen, ‘Orphics and Gnostics’ (463-473); J. den Boeft, ‘Recognizing Demons’ (475-486); A. Hilhorst, ‘Alternative Uses of Garments in the Graeco-Roman World’ (487-499); G.G. Stroumsa, ‘Athens or Jerusalem? From Eschatological Hopes to Cultural Memory’ (501-513). Grabbe, Lester L., An Introduction to Second Temple Judaism, London–New York: T&TClark 2010, xvi + 150 pp., ISBN 978-0-567-55248-8, US$ 27.95 (pb).—Concise, authoritative and well written introduction, based on Grabbe’s earlier work An Introduction of First Century Judaism. With a highly interesting Ch. 5: ‘Inverted Judaism: The Gnostic Current’ (109-127). Isele, Bernd, Kampf um Kirchen. Religiöse Gewalt, heiliger Raum und christliche Topographie in Alexandria und Konstantinopel (4. Jh.) (Jahrbuch für Antike und Christentum, Ergänzungsband, Kleine Reihe 4), Münster: Aschendorff Verlag 2010, VI + 267 S., ISBN 978-3-402-10910-6, € 38 (geb.).—Diss. Uni- versität Münster 2006 (Doktorvater Johannes Hahn; Zweitgutachten Stephen Emmel). © Koninklijke Brill NV, Leiden, 2011 DOI: 10.1163/157007211X545480 Books Received / Vigiliae Christianae 65 (2011) 222-226 223 Jaffé Dan (ed.), Studies in Rabbinic Judaism and Early Christianity. Text and Context (Ancient Judaism and Early Christianity 74), Leiden-Boston: Brill 2010, xv + 248 pp., ISBN 978-90-04-18410-7, € 103 /US$ 146 (hardback).—Results from a symposium held at Paris under the auspices of the Collège des Études Juives (Alliance Israélite Universelle). Although the rather chaotic ‘Index of Ancient Sources’ seems to indicate otherwise, in many of the contributions (and in particular in the final one) ‘patristic’ texts are discussed: Daniel Marguerat, ‘La Quête du Jésus de l’histoire et la judaïcité de Jésus’; François Blanchetière, ‘Jésus le Nazaréen « fondateur » ou « rénovateur » ?’; Barak S. Cohen, ‘“In Nehardea There are No Heretics”: The Purported Jewish Response to Christianity in Nehardea (A Re-Examination of the Talmudic Evidence)’; Dan Jaffé, ‘Représentations et attraits du christianisme dans les sources talmudiques. Proposition d’un nouveau para- digme’; Avinoam Cohen, ‘ “The Lord Shall Lift up His Countenance upon You” (Numbers 6:26)—An anti-Christian Polemical Misdrash by the Sages?’; Daniel R. Schwartz, ‘On the Jewish Background of Christianity’; Jonathan Bourgel, ‘The Jewish-Christian Move from Jerusalem as a Pragmatic Choice’ (B. inter alia argues that the transfer of the Jewish Christians from Jerusalem and their settlement in Pella [e.g. Eusebius, HE III,5,2-3] were supervised by the Roman armies, while dating this event to the late spring of 68 C.E.); Eyal Regev, ‘The Temple in Mark. A Case Study about the Early Christian Attitude toward the Temple’; Emmanuel Friedheim, ‘Quelques réflexions historiques sur les origines païennes présumées du christianisme primitif’; Stéphanie E. Binder, ‘Jewish-Christian Contacts in the Second and Third Centuries C.E.? The Case of Carthage Tertullian and the Mish- nah’s Views on Idolatry’ (e.g. extensive discussion of the striking parallels between Tertullian’s De idololatria and the Mishnah Avodah Zarah). Käsemann, Ernst, On Being a Disciple of the Crucified Nazarene. Unpublished Lectures and Sermons. Edited by Rudolf Landau, in Cooperation with Wolfgang Kraus, Grand Rapids, Michigan / Cambridge, U.K.: Eerdmans 2010, xxi + 337 pp., ISBN 978-0-8028-6026-2, US$ 30.00 / £ 19.99 (pb).—Originally published in German by Mohr Siebeck in 2005; translation by Roy A. Harrisville. MacMullen, Ramsay, The Second Church. Popular Christianity A.D. 200-400 (Writings from the Greco-Roman World Supplement Series, Nr. 1), Atlanta: Soci- ety of Biblical Literature 2009, xii + 210 pp. (incl. many figures), ISBN 978- 158983403-3, US$ 24.95 (pb). Metzner, Rainer, Kaiphas. Der Hohepriester jenes Jahres. Geschichte und Deutung (Ancient Judaism and Early Christianity 75), Leiden-Boston: Brill 2010, XVIII + 458 pp. + XXII Tafeln, ISBN 978-90-04-18524-1, € 162 /US$ 230 (hardback).— Well researched and highly readable study, paying attention to the figure of Caia- phas in early Christian literature outside the NT as well. The author’s conclusion: ‘In Anbetracht dieser Überlegungen scheint es angebracht, das überlieferte Bild von Kaiphas als machtsversessenen und korrupten Kollaborateur der Römer oder als bösartigen Feind Gottes, der Jesus und seine Anhänger aus niederen Beweg- gründen verfolgen ließ und der in der Wirkungsgeschichte der neutestamentlichen .