Contents

Abbreviations

List of Contributors

Acknowledgements

Introduction: The Reception and Interpretation of the Biblein Late Antiquity (Lorenzo DiTommaso and Lucian Turcescu)

Congratulatory Letter (The Most Reverend and Right HonourableRowan Williams, Archbishop of Canterbury)

KEYNOTE ADDRESS

The Novelty and Inescapability of the Bible in LateAntiquity (Robert Louis Wilken)

PAPERS

« Car mes iniquités dépassèrent ma tête » : Les fonctions du textebiblique dans la section katanyktique du Logos Asketikos deMaxime le Confesseur (Pablo Argárate)

What Makes Exegesis either Christian or Jewish? (Herbert W. Basser)

Augustine and the Ethics of Reading the Bible (Pamela Bright)

Appeals to Jesus and the One ‘Who Heals Every Illness and Every Infirmity’ (Matt 4:23, 9:35) in Amulets in LateAntiquity (Theodore de Bruyn)

Le commentaire au 4e siècle ou, pour reformuler le dicton,ancienneté a-t-elle toujours autorité? (Marie-Pierre Bussières)

Completing the Gospel: The Infancy Gospel of Thomas as a Supplement to the Gospel of Luke (Tony Chartrand-Burke)

Good Tree, Bad Tree: The Matthean/Lukan Paradigm in Manichaeism and Its Opponents (J. Kevin Coyle)

Biblical Form, Function, and Genre in the Post-Biblical Historical Apocalyptica (Lorenzo DiTommaso)

The Reception and Interpretation of Paul in Late Antiquity:1 Corinthians 7 and the Ascetic Debates (David G. Hunter)

The Eternal Gospel: Origen’s Eschatological Exegesis (Shawn W.J. Keough)

Making the Imperfect Perfect: The Adaptation of Hebrews 11in the 9th Mēmrā of the Syriac Book of Steps (Robert A. Kitchen)

Les Homélies sur l’Évangile de Luc de Titus de Bostra (Jean-Michel Lavoie, Paul-Hubert Poirier et Thomas S. Schmidt)

Hearing Love’s Language: The Letter of the Text in Origen’s Commentary on the Song of Songs (Richard A. Layton)

The Early Rabbinic Refashioning of Biblical Heilsgeschichte, the Fashioning of the Rabbinic Canon of Scriptures, and theFormation of the Early Rabbinic Movement (Jack N. Lightstone)

‘Τὰ τίνων ἄρα ῥήματα θεολογεῖ?’: The ExegeticalRelationship between Athanasius’ Orationes contra Arianos I–IIIand Marcellus of Ancyra’s Contra Asterium (Sara Parvis)

Présupposés herméneutiques de la lecture de la Bible juivechez les gnostiques. Étude de quelques procédés exégétiquesdans un traité de Nag Hammadi (NH 2, 4) (Anne Pasquier)

Scripture for a Life of Perfection. The Bible in Late Antique Monasticism: The Case of Palestine (Lorenzo Perrone)

Separating Light from Darkness: Manichaean Use of Biblical Traditions in the Kephalaia (Timothy Pettipiece)

The Reception of Early Christian Texts and Traditions in Late Antiquity Apocryphal Literature (Pierluigi Piovanelli)

Methods of Early Rabbinic Biblical Exegesis (Gary G. Porton)

Pseudepigraphy, Authorship, and the Reception of ‘the Bible’in Late Antiquity (Annette Yoshiko Reed)

Between Scripture and Tradition: The Marian Apocrypha of Early Christianity (Stephen J. Shoemaker)

Gregory of Nyssa’s Biblical Hermeneutics in De opifi ciohominis (Lucian Turcescu)

SPECIAL GUEST PAPER

Scripture as a Legacy of the Fathers (Charles Kannengiesser)

Bibliography of the Works of Charles Kannengiesser

Index of Ancient Sources

Index of Modern Authors (Compiled by Éric Crégheur)