Interpretive disagreements and the ontology of a text : scandal or possibility? / Robert A. Di Vito -- Qara' and 'ana in the Hebrew scriptures / Pauline A. Viviano -- The Dead Sea Scrolls and Jewish-Christian dialogue / Eileen Schuller -- Artapanus revisited / John J. Collins -- Exegetical building blocks in Philo's interpretation of the patriarchs / Ellen Birnbaum -- Exegetical traditions in Alexandria : Philo's reworking of the letter of Aristeas 145-149 as a case study / Hans Svebakken -- The Second Temple and the arts of resistance / Adela Yarbro Collins -- Mamona iniquitatis : can we make sense of the parable of the dishonest steward? / Edmondo Lupieri -- Galatians 3:28 and the problem of equality in the church and society / David E. Aune -- "Welcome him as you would welcome me" (Philemon 17) : does Paul call for virtue or the actualization of a vision? / Wendy Cotter -- The god transformed : Greco-Roman literary antecedents to the Incarnation / Lawrence DiPaolo, Jr -- The Johannine literature and Gosticism : new light on their relationship / Urban C. von Wahlde -- The Acts of John and the fourth gospel / Harold W. Attridge -- Christ, the church, and the shape of scripture : what we can learn from patristic exegesis / Brian E. Daley.