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BENJAMIN G. WRIGHT (ed.), A Multiform Heritage: Studies on Early Judaism and Christianity in Honor of Robert A. Kraft (Homage Series 24; Atlanta: Scholars, 1999). Pp. xxiv + 353. $49.95.
This collection of essays celebrates the sixty-fifth birthday of Robert Kraft, the Berg Professor of Religious Studies at the University of Pennsylvania, where Kraft has taught since 1963. The volume begins with a biographical summary and bibliography of Kraft's scholarly work by Benjamin Wright (pp. xv-xxiv).
The contributed essays are the following: Allaire Brumfield, "A 'Crowd of Vulgar Revellers': The Thesmophoriazousai at Athens," pp. 1-9; Emanuel Tov, "Opisthographs from the Judean Desert," pp. 11-18; Martha Himmelfarb, "Torah, Testimony, and Heavenly Tablets: The Claim to Authority of the Book of Jubilees," pp. 19-29; Frederick W Knobloch, "The Challenges of Translating a Translation: Rendering the Proper Nouns of the Jewish-Greek Scriptures," pp. 31-40; Glenn A. Koch, "Jesus' Baptism and Temptation Accounts in Mark's Gospel," pp. 41-48; John Gager, "Re-Inventing St. Paul: Was the Apostle to the Gentiles the Father of Christian Anti-Judaism?" pp. 49-63; Allen Kerkeslager, "Evidence for the Early History of the Amidah in 1 Cor 15:51-52," pp. 65-78; Harold Remus, "'Unknown and Yet Well-Known': The Multiform Formation of Early Christianity," pp. 79-93; George W E. Nickelsburg, "Seeking the Origins of the Two-Ways Tradition in Jewish and Christian Ethical Texts," pp. 95-108; Theodore A. Bergren, "5 Ezra, Dayyenu and Improperia: The Tradition History of the Exodus-Review in 5 Ezra I," pp. 109-22; William Adler, "Julius Africanus and Judaism in the Third Century," pp. 123-38; Michael E. Stone, "The Study of the Armenian...