• Features
• Jacob’s Terrible Burden
• By Gordon Tucker
• Jacob’s Journey
• Escape and Rescue—An Interview with Geza Vermes
• Pamela Vermes, Poet and Scholar
• Why Not Idol Meat?
• By Ben Witherington III
• The Great Gulf Between Scholars and the Pew
• By Michael D. Coogan
• Departments
• First Glance
• The Book of Numbers
• Bible Books
• By Ronald S. Hendel and John P. Meier
• Burning Mad in Indiana
• Miriam’s Challenge
• By Bernhard W. Anderson
• Mark and the Life—and Death—of Jesus
• By Helmut Koester
• BRiefs
• By Gabrielle DeFord and Molly Dewsnap Meinhardt
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