A definitive new overview surveying nearly 1,000 years of thought: Sean Freyne on the Herodian period; Graham Stanton on the Synoptic Gospels; Oskar Skarsaune on Jews and Christians in the Holy Land, A.D. 135--325; Sebastian Brock on Syria; Philip Alexander on rabbinic thought; Nicholas Lange on pre-Christian Byzantium. . . . 352 pages, softcover. T. & T. Clark.