What happened to the Jewish priesthood after 70? / Philip S. Alexander -- Some "mass produced" scorpion-amulets from the Cairo Genizah / Gideon Bohak -- Josephus on the Essenes : the sources of his information / John J. Collins -- Judean ethnic identity in Josephus' Against Apion / Philip F. Esler -- What did Nehemiah do for Judaism? / Anne Fitzpatrick-McKinley -- Ben-Hur and ancient Jewish slavery / Catherine Hezser -- Corruption among the high priesthood : a matter of perspective / James S. McLaren -- The integrity of the Rabbinic law of purity (Mishnah Teharot) / Jacob Neusner -- Monarchy vs. priesthood : Josephus, Justus of Tiberias, and Agrippa II / Zuleika Rodgers -- Early printed maps of Galilee / John R. Bartlett -- Archaeology, ethnicity, and first-century C.E. Galilee : the limits of evidence / Mark A. Chancey -- Walking the Roman landscape in lower Galilee : Sepphoris, Jotapata, and Khirbet Qana / Douglas R. Edwards -- George Adam Smith and the moral geography of Galilee / Halvor Moxnes -- Early and late synagogues at Nabratein in Upper Galilee : regional and other considerations / Eric M. Meyers -- Between Rome and Parthia : Galilee and the implications of empire / J. Andrew Overman -- Who wouldn't marry Jesus? / Marianne Sawicki -- Stratum II synagogue at Hammath Tiberias : reconsidering its access, internal space, and architecture / Zeev Weiss -- Drinking the water that Jesus gives : a feature of the Johannine Eucharist? / Margaret Daly-Denton -- Imitatio Christi : copying the death of the founder and gaining paradise / Majella Franzmann -- Tertullianus & son? / Jill Harries -- The language(s) of the kingdom : from Aramaic to Greek, Galilee to Syria, oral to oral-written / Richard A. Horsley -- The women, the tomb, and the climax of Mark / Larry W. Hurtado -- Unsocial bandits / John S. Kloppenborg -- Another post-resurrection meal and its implications for the early understanding of the Eucharist / Thomas O'Loughlin -- Reading Jesus' parables in light of his crucifixion / V. George Shillington -- Bread that is broken--and unbroken / Justin Taylor -- Composition and performance in Mark 13 / Adela Yarbro Collins -- A conflict between brothers : observations on the [hypokritai] in Matthew / Jürgen Zangenberg.