Introduction; Satan in the Testament of Job: A Literary Analysis; Gaps in the Story, Cracks in the Earth: The Exile of Cain and the Destruction of Korah in Pseudo-Philo (Liber Antiquitatum Biblicarum 16); The Tradition History of the Exodus-Review in 5 Ezra 1; Voice and Vision: Song as a Vehicle for Ecstatic Experience in Songs of the Sabbath Sacrifice; The Face as the Heavenly Counterpart of the Visionary in the Slavonic Ladder of Jacob; Prayerful Origins: David as Temple Founder in Rabbinic Psalms Commentary (Midrash Tehillim).

Reading as Rhetoric in Halakhic TextsOn the Culture of the Bavli; Holy, Holy, Holy: The Use of Isaiah 6.3 in Apostolic Constitutions 7.35.1-10 and 8.12.6-27; Patristic Interpretations of the Composition of the Psalter; Jewish Influence on Christian Biblical Interpretation: Hugh of St Victor and ''The Four Daughters of God''

Of Scribes and Sages focuses primarily on early interpretation of Scripture, including the emergence of Scripture as Scripture in its various versions and contexts. It examines recent research into the relationship of the Old Testament to the New and how sacred Scripture was interpreted during New Testament times. It also provides stimulating examples to students, scholars, and clergy in how the task of interpretation is to be done