Contents -- Preface -- Note on Citations, Abbreviations, Editions, Translations -- 1. Introduction -- The Canon of Scripture -- The Language of Scripture -- The Text of Scripture -- 2. The Old Testament Canon in Patristic Biblical Theory -- The Date Criterion -- Judaism -- Christianity -- The Synagogal Criterion -- The Correspondence between Julius Africanus and Origen -- Origen outside His Correspondence with Africanus -- Origen's Canon List -- Origen on the Wisdom of Solomon -- The Jews and the Oracles of God -- Origen and Enoch -- Conclusion -- Jerome -- The Ecclesiastical Criterion -- Conclusion -- 3. Hebrew Scripture and the Canon of the Old Testament -- Julius Africanus -- Origen -- The {Stromata} -- {Letter to Africanus} -- Suppression of Scripture -- Conclusion -- Other Evidence for the Hebrew Criterion in Patristic Literature -- The Hebrew Alphabet and the Canonical Books -- The Extent of the Septuagint Translation -- Jerome, Augustine, and the Hebrew Criterion -- Conclusion -- 4. The Language of Hebrew Scripture and Patristic Biblical Theory -- Hebrew: The Holy Language of Judaism -- The Languages of Early Judaism -- Reverence for the Hebrew Language in Early Judaism -- Hebrew and Aramaic in Patristic Thought -- The Relationship between Hebrew and Aramaic According to the Fathers -- The Idea of Hebrew in Patristic Literature -- The Idea of Aramaic in Patristic Literature -- Conclusion -- 5. Hebrew Scripture and the Text of the Old Testament -- The Text of the Septuagint in Early Judaism -- The Text of the Bible in Early Judaism -- Jewish Sources on Greek Scripture -- Septuagint versus Hebrew in Early Judaism -- The Continued Use of Greek Scripture in Judaism -- The Biblical Text in Early Christianity -- Patristic Textual Theory before Origen -- Origen's Textual Theory -- The Textual Theory of the Greek Fathers after Origen.

The Textual Theory of Jerome and His Opponents -- Conclusion -- Bibliography -- Index of Ancient Sources -- General Index.