Includes bibliographical references and index

Contents:

Archaeological contributions to the study of Jesus and the gospels / Jonathan Reed

Josephus on John the Baptist and other Jewish prophets of deliverance/ Craig A. Evans

Abba and Father: imperial theology in the contexts of Jesus and the gospels/ Mary Rose D'Angelo

Miraculous conceptions and births in Mediterranean antiquity/ Charles H. Talbert

First and second Enoch: a cry against oppression and the promise of deliverance/ George W.E. Nickelsburg

Jesus and the Dead Sea Scrolls/ Peter Flint

The Chreia/ David B. Gowler

The Galilean Charismatic and Rabbinic peity: the holy man in the Talmudic literature/ Alan J. Avery-Peck

Miracle stories: the God asclepius, the pythagorean philosophers, and the Roman rulers/ Wendy Cotter

The Mithras liturgy/ Marvin Meyer

Apluleius of Madauros/ Ian H. Henderson

The parable in the Hebrew Bible and Rabbinic literature/ Gary G. Porton

The Aesop tradition/ Lawrence M. Wills

Targum, Jesus and the gospels/ Bruce Chilton

The Psalms of Solomon/ Joseph L. Trafton

Moral and ritual purity/ Jonathan Klawans

Gospel and Talmud/ Herbert W. Basser

Philo of Alexandria/ Gregory E. Sterling

The law of Roman divorce in the Time of Christ/ Thomas A.J. McGinn

Associations in the ancient world/ John S. Kloppenborg

Anointing traditions/ Teresa J. Hornsby

The Passover Haggadah/ Calum Carmichael

Josephand Aseneth: Food as an identity marker/ Randall D. Chesnutt

The Pliny and Trajan correspondence/ Bradley M. Peper and Mark DelCogliano

Imitations of Greek Epic in the gospels/ Dennis R. MacDonald

Narratives of Noble Death/ Robert Doran

Isaiah 53:1--12 (Septuagint)/ Ben Witherington III

Thallus on the crucifixion/ Dale C. Allison Jr.