Part 1. Old Testament/Hebrew Bible. The Bible and the crocodile: an exercise in balancing translation technique and text-critical data / Kristin De Troyer -- Reading the Septuagint: the hermeneutical problem of a translated text / Benjamin J.M. Johnson -- The not not-inglorious death of Samson / Kerry Lee -- No gods made with hands: Pauline idol polemics / Rebekah M. Devine -- Part 2. Pseudepigrapha & Dead Sea scrolls. Quotations from lost books in the Hebrew Bible: a new translation and introduction / James R. Davila -- The reception of Isa 40:15 in Liber antiquitatum biblicarum, 2 Baruch, and 4 Ezra / Albertina Oegema -- After the Order of Melchizedek: royal themes and Melchizedek traditions applied to Jesus by the author of Hebrews / David J. Larsen -- The reception of the Jobraham narratives in Jewish thought / Nicholas Ellis -- Jesus and the Jewish diviner: the use and misuse of 4Q242 / Beniamin Pascut -- Part 3. New Testament. Scripture and God's authority: case studies and further questions / N.T. Wright -- Elective affinity: Second Peter's reception of Paul / Martin G. Ruf -- Poiesis, aesthesis, and catharsis: the aesthetic experience of reading "the day of the Lord" with the Fathers / Andrew Talbert --