1. The world of sacred scripture: Origen's Old Testament text: the transmission history of the Septuagint to the third century, C.E. / Eugene Ulrich -- The text of the Gospels in Origen's Commentaries on John and Matthew / William L. Petersen -- Origen in the scholar's den: a rationale for the Hexapla / John Wright -- Straw dogs and scholarly ecumenism: the appropriate Jewish background for the study of Origen / Roger Brooks -- Origen, the rabbis, and the Bible: toward a picture of Judaism and Christianity in third-century Caesarea / Paul M. Blowers -- Origen and the Sensus literalis / Charles J. Scalise -- Allegory and spiritual observance in Origen's discussions of the Sabbath / Daniel J. Nodes -- Divine deception and the truthfulness of scripture / Joseph W. Trigg -- Poetic words, abysmal words: reflections on Origen's hermeneutics / Patricia Cox Miller -- 2. Spirituality--philosophy--theology: Origenian understanding of martyrdom and its biblical framework / Pamela Bright -- The role of prayer in Origen's Homilies / Daniel Sheerin -- Looking on the light: some remarks on the imagery of light in the first chapter of the Peri archon / John Dillon -- Divine Trinity and the structure of Peri archon / Charless Kannenggiesser -- Sacrifice in Origen in the light of philonic models / Jean Laporte -- Origen's ecclesiology and the biblical metaphor of the church as the body of Christ / Verlyn D. Verbrugge -- The place of saints and sinners after death / Lawrence R. Hennessey -- Moses and Jesus in Contra Celsum 7.1-25: ethics, history and Jewish-Christian eirenics in Origen's theology / Peter J. Gorday -- Origen and early Christian pluralism: the context of his eschatology / Jon F. Dechow -- Elements of fourth century Origenism: the anthropology of Evagrius Ponticus and its sources / Michael O'Laughlin. ‎ ‎