Introduction : revelation, literature, community, and late antiquity / Philippa Townsend, Pseudepigraphy and/as prophecy : continuity and transformation in the formation and reception of early enochic writings / Annette Yoshiko Reed Prophets, economics, and the rites of man / Christine Trevett Isis and the people in the Life of Aesop / Pavlos Avlamis Revelation as the path to ignorance : the Sethian platonizing Apocalpyse Allogenes / John D. Turner The soul's innate gnosis of the gods : revelation in Iamblichean theurgy / Gregory Shaw Keeping secres and making Christians : catechesis and the revelation of the Christian mysteries / Daniel L. Schwartz Tam pretiosi codices vestri : Hebrew scriptures and Persian books in Augustine's anti-manichaean writings / Eduard Iricinschi Rabbi Aqiva : Midrash and the site of revelation / Azzan Yadin-Israel Revelation and rabbinization in Sefer Zerubbabel, / Sefer EliyyahuMiscegentation, "mixture," and "mixed iron" : the Hermeneutics, historiography, and cultural poesis of the "four ages" in Zoroastrianism Ahab, Bar Kokhba, Muhammad, and the lying spirit : prophetic discourse before and after the rise of Islam / Michael E. Pregill Angels versus humans as messengers of God : the view of the Qur'ānic pagans / Patricia Crone. | 
