The "coming of God" tradition and its influence on New Testament parousia texts / Edward Adams -- The Lives of the prophets in Syriac : some soundings / Sebastian Brock -- The formation and renewal of scriptural tradition / George J. Brooke -- A fruitful venture : the origin of Hebrew studies at King's College London / Ronald E. Clements -- The yaḥad and "the Qumran community" / John J. Collins -- And Enoch was not, for Genesis took him / Philip R. Davies -- Divine sonship at Qumran : between the Old and the New Testament / Florentino García Martínez -- Maskil(im) and rabbim : from Daniel to Qumran / Charlotte Hempel -- From Jeremiah to Baruch : pseudepigraphy in the Syriac Apocalypse of Baruch / Matthias Henze -- The Testaments of the twelve patriarchs and the "two ways" / Marinus de Jonge -- Justin Martyr and the Ttransformation of Psalm 22 / Judith M. Lieu -- Whom does the term yaḥad identify? / Sarianna Metso -- Speaking with the voice of God : the high court according to Greek Deuteronomy 17:8-13 / Sarah J.K. Pearce -- Sex and death, or, the death of sex : three versions of Jephthah's daughter (Judges 11:29-40) / Deborah W. Rooke -- The creation of angels and natural phenomena intertwined in the Book of Jubilees (4QJuba) : angels and natural phenomena as characteristics of the creation stories and hymns in late Second Temple Judaism / Raija Sollamo -- Daniel 7 in the Similitudes of Enoch (1 Enoch 37-71) / James C. VanderKam -- From generation to generation : the sage as father in early Jewish literature / Benjamin G. Wright III -- Christian messianism and the first Jewish war with Rome / Adela Yarbro Collins.