List of Contributors -- Foreword (David E. Aune) -- Introduction (Robin Darling Young) -- Part One Classical Studies -- Personal Religion? (Larry Alderink) -- Death as Life and Life as Death: Revisiting Rohde (James D. Tabor) -- Credibility and Credulity in Plutarch's Life of Numa Pompilius (Hans Dieter Betz) -- "That Unpredictable Little Beast": Traces of an Other Socrates (A.J. Droge) -- To Show the Difference by Comparison": The New Wettstein and Cleanthes' Hymn (Johan C. Thom) -- ISmyrna 753: Gods and the One God (Leonard L. Thompson) -- Part Two New Testament Studies -- "The Spirit is Willing, but the Flesh is Weak" (Mark 14:38b and Matt. 26:41b) (David E. Aune) -- "Every Signal Worth Reading": Jesus and Jewish Sectarians in Mark (Peter Zaas) -- Divine Sons: Aeneas and Jesus in Hebrews (Mark Reasoner) -- The Two Thirteens: Romans and Revelation (Graydon F. Snyder) -- Part Three Patristic Studies -- Notes on Divesting and Vesting in The Hymn of the Pearl (Robin Darling Young) -- Origen, Celsus and Lucian on the "Dénouement of the Drama" of the Gospels (Margaret M. Mitchell) -- Ante-Nicene Preaching in Recent Literature (O.C. Edwards, Jr) -- The Emerge of the Spiritual Reading of the Apocalypse in the Third Century (Bernard McGinn) -- Eusebius on Porphyry's "Polytheistic Error" (Robert Lee Williams) -- A Sixth-Century Plea against Religious Violence: Romanos on Elijah (L. William Countryman) -- Index.