I can still recall with near perfect clarity the margin notes on my first college paper. I was taking Introduction to Political Thought, and remember looking at my TA’s comments with wonderment. What does “tautology” mean? I was baffled. As much as I wanted to believe that I was adequately prepared for college—I had at least moderate intelligence and a real thirst for learning—I was fairly ill equipped. My reasoning skills and arguing abilities were...

Rey, Jean-Sébastien, ed. The Dead Sea Scrolls and Pauline Literature. Studies on the Texts of the Desert of Judah 102. Leiden: Brill, 2014. 355 + xvi pages. Hardcover. €121.00 This volume, the latest installment of the prestigious and important Studies on the Texts of the Desert of Judah series, is devoted to the question of the interrelationship of Pauline literature and the Dead Sea Scrolls. The collection contains 15 articles (10 in English, 5 in...