Texts, Contexts and Cultures : essays on biblical topics

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East meets West -- Early Judaism and Early Christianity as Places of Encounter -- 'And So We Came to Rome' -- From Jesus to Constantine : Jerusalem in Early Christian Piety and Imagination -- Reading the Gospels in the Light of the 'Window of the Evangelists' at Chartres Cathedral -- Mark's Urgent Message -- 'In the Beginning was the Word' -- Christological Debates Among Johannine Christians -- The Quest for the Historical Jesus -- Some Theological Reflections -- Galilee and Judea in the First Century : The Social World of Jesus and His Ministry -- Millennium, Jubilee and Jesus -- The Apostle Paul, the First Christian Mystic? -- Faith and Culture : Reflections on the Early Christian Experience -- Jesus Christ: The Anchor of Hope -- God as Experience and Mystery: The Early Christian Understanding -- From Messianism to Messiahs: The Jewish Search for Redemption in History -- The Bible and Christian Theology: Inspiration, Projection, Critique?