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Acknowledgments and Dedication This book began as a doctoral dissertation at the University of Iowa (“The Reception of Origen’s Exegesis of Romans in the Latin West,” 2004). I am grateful to the members of my interdisciplinary Ph.D. committee for their guidance and support. Thomas Williams was my thesis supervisor. James McCue and Dwight Bozeman were committee members, as well as John Finamore and Craig Gibson. I also received advice from Ralph Keen. The suggestions of all these scholars led to substantial improvements. From outside the University of Iowa, I received direct help from Joseph Lienhard, J. Patout Burns, Steven Cartwright, and Mark Reasoner. The criticisms of anonymous readers from Brill Press and from the University of Notre Dame Press greatly improved both the structure and the argument of my manuscript. I am grateful to Ralph McInerny, who awarded me a postdoctoral research fellowship in the University of Notre Dame’s Jacques Maritain Center. The revision of the original dissertation took place during my two wonderful years at Notre Dame. The result reminds me of Tertullian’s prefatory words concerning his expanded edition of his treatise Against Marcion: “This present text, therefore, of my work—which is the third from the second, but henceforward to be considered the first instead of the third—renders a preface necessary to this edition of the work . . .” Finally, I am sincerely grateful to two colleagues, Bret Sunnerville and Jay Martin, who showed a keen interest in this research project and offered much intelligent feedback and encouragement . The work is dedicated to my wife, Susan, who is the mother of our six children. xi ...

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