The Reception and Interpretation of the Bible in Late Antiquity ─ Proceedings of the Montr嶧l Colloquium in Honour of Charles Kannengiesser, 11-13 October 2006

A Festschrift offered to Charles Kannengiesser on his 80th birthday, this volume contains twenty-five papers that address major issues pertaining to the reception and interpretation of the Bible in Christianity and Judaism of late antiquity.

Lorenzo DiTommaso (Ph.D. in Religion, McMaster University, 2002) is Assistant Professor at Concordia University, Montreal. Among his other books are The Dead Sea New Jerusalem Text (Mohr Siebeck, 2005) and The Book of Daniel and the Apocryphal Daniel Literature (Brill, 2005).Lucian Turcescu (Ph.D. in Theology, University of Toronto, 1999) is Associate Professor at Concordia University, Montreal, and President of the Canadian Society of Patristic Studies. He has written on Greek patristics, including Gregory of Nyssa and The Concept of Divine Persons (Oxford University Press, 2005), as well as religion and politics.Contributors include: Pablo Argarate, Herbert W. Basser, Pamela Bright, Theodore de Bruyn, Marie-Pierre Bussieres, Tony Chartrand-Burke, J. Kevin Coyle, Lorenzo DiTommaso, David G. Hunter, Shawn W.J. Keough, Robert A. Kitchen, Jean-Michel Lavoie, Paul-Hubert Poirier, Thomas S. Schmidt, Richard A. Layton, Jack N. Lightstone, Sara Parvis, Anne Pasquier, Lorenzo Perrone, Timothy Pettipiece, Pierluigi Piovanelli, Gary G. Porton, Annette Yoshiko Reed, Stephen J. Shoemaker, Lucian Turcescu, Robert Louis Wilken, and Charles Kannengiesser