CONTENTS -- List of Illustrations -- List of E-Mail Addresses Contributors -- Editorial Statement -- INTRODUCTION -- Introduction -- Hermeneutics of Imitation: A Philosophical Approach to Sainthood and Exemplariness -- BIBLICAL PERIOD -- Divine versus Human Leadership: An Examination of Joshua's Succession -- RABBINIC/PATRISTIC PERIOD -- Holy Men and Rabbis in Talmudic Antiquity -- Rabbinic Holy Men -- Prayers of Jews to Angels and Other Mediators in the First Centuries CE -- Enoch and Melchizedek in Judaism and Christianity: A Study in Intermediaries -- Material Culture in the Land of Israel: Monks and Rabbis on Clothing and Dress in the Byzantine Period -- Partnership between Heaven and Earth: The Sage as Religious Role Model in Canticles Rabbah -- Jewish and Christian Martyrs -- The Cult of the Seven Maccabean Brothers and Their Mother in Christian Tradition -- Individuality, Exemplarity and Community: Athanasius' Use of Two Biblical Characters in the Life of Antony -- Job the Rebel: From the Rabbis to the Church Fathers -- Pious Intrepidness: Egeria and the Ascetic Ideal -- The Byzantine Holy Person: The Case of Barsanuphius and John of Gaza -- MIDDLE AGES -- 'The Rock on Which the Church is Founded': Simon Peter in Jewish Folktale -- Holiness as Gift and as Achievement in Late Medieval Funeral Sermons: The Role of the Deceased and the Religious Life of the Mourning Believer in Gabriel Biel's sermones in exequiis -- Wandering between Transubstantiation and Transfiguration: Images of the Prophet Elijah in Western Christianity, 1200-1500 CE -- MODERN PERIOD -- "A Woman's Voice is 'Erva'": The Female's Voice and Silence-between the Talmudic Sages and Psychoanalysis -- New Models of the Sacred Leader at the Beginning of Hasidism -- The Modern Saint: An Exploration of Sacral Interferences.

Miraculous Women: Miracles, Religious Authority and Gender -- A Holy Father on the See of Moses? -- Index of Ancient Sources -- Hebrew Bible -- Septuagint -- Targum -- Apocrypha and Pseudepigrapha -- New Testament -- Qumran -- Jewish-Hellenistic Literature -- Mishna -- Tosefta -- Babylonian Talmud -- Palestinian Talmud -- Midrash and Related Works -- Christian Writings -- Later Jewish Authors -- Greek and Latin Authors -- Index of Names and Subjects -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Y -- Z.