This collection of articles honoring eminent classicist and historian Louis H. Feldman brings together a host of prominent scholars from all over the world writing on such fields as biblical interpretation, Judaism and Hellenism, Jews and Gentiles, Josephus, Jewish Literatures of the Second Temple, Mishnah and Talmud periods, History of the Mishnah and Talmud periods, Jerusalem and much more.

Joshua Schwartz, Ph.D (1981), Jewish History, Hebrew University, is Dean, Faculty of Jewish Studies and Director, Ingeborg Rennert Center for Jerusalem Studies, Bar-Ilan. He has recently edited (with Marcel Poorthuis) Saints and Role Models in Judaism and Christianity (Brill, 2004).
Shaye J.D. Cohen, Ph.D. (1979) in Ancient History, Columbia University, is Littauer Professor of Hebrew Literature and Philosophy, Harvard University. He is the author of Josephus in Galilee and Rome (Brill, 1979), and editor of Morton Smith Studies in the Cult of Yahweh (Brill, 1996).