CONTENTS -- Preface -- Abbreviations -- 1. Illitteratus in Early Christian and Medieval Texts: Church and Illiteracy -- 2. "He must Grow, I must Diminish." (John 3:30): Augustine of Hippo Preaching on John the Baptist -- 3. Aeterne rerum conditor: Ambrose's Poem about "Time" -- 4. "Never Repay Evil with Evil": Ethical Interaction between the Joseph Story, the Novel Joseph and Aseneth, the New Testament and the Apocryphal Acts -- 5. The Vision of Saturus in the Passio Perpetuae -- 6. Life after Death in Pseudo-Phocylides -- 7. The Eagle on the Tree: A Homeric Motif in Jewish and Christian Literature -- 8. The Text of the Martyrdom of Polycarp Again (With a Note on the Greek Text of Polycarp, ad Phil.) -- 9. Theodoret's Philological Remarks on the Language of the Septuagint -- 10. Greek Loanwords in the Copper Scroll -- 11. Between Old and New: The Problem of Acculturation Illustrated by the Early Christian Usage of the Phoenix Motif -- 12. The Use of Scripture in 1 Enoch 17-19 -- 13. The Interpretation of Metaphorical Language: A Characteristic of LXX-Isaiah -- 14. The Critical Rewriting of Genesis in the Gnostic Apocryphon of John -- 15. The Irish Legend of Antichrist -- 16. Bεθαβαρα τό του άγίου 'Iωάννου του Bαπτίσματος Remarks about Storied Places at the Jordan, John the Baptist and the Madaba Mosaic Map -- 17. The Three Nets of Belial from Qumran to the Opus Imperfectum in Matthaeum -- 18. Erasmus' Note on Gal 4:25: The Connection between Mount Sinai and Jerusalem -- 19. The Four Rivers of Eden in the Apocalypse of Paul (Visio Pauli ): The Intertextual Relationship of Genesis 2:10-14 and the Apocalypse of Paul 23 -- 20. "Moses received Torah…" (m. Avot 1:1): Rabbinic Conceptions of Revelation -- 21. The White Dress of the Essenes and the Pythagoreans -- 22. Origen on the Assumption of Moses.

23. La saveur biblique du latin mérovingien: l'example de la Vie de Sainte Rusticule, Abbesse à Arles VII siècle) -- Bibliography of A. Hilhorst -- References to Ancient Texts.