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Contents 2008 NAPS Presidential Address The Significance of Ambrosiaster   1 David G. Hunter No Child Left Behind: Knowledge and Violence in the Infancy Gospel of Thomas   27 Chris Frilingos What Sort of Thing Is This Luminous Woman? Thinking Sexual Difference in On the Origin of the World   55 Benjamin H. Dunning Augustine Accused: Megalius, Manichaeism, and the Inception of the Confessions   85 Jason David BeDuhn “Garments of Salvation”: Representations of Monastic Clothing in Late Antiquity   125 Rebecca Krawiec BODIES AND BOUNDARIES IN LATE ANTIQUITY: ESSAYS IN HONOR OF PATRICIA COX MILLER Introduction   167 Kim Haines-Eitzen and Georgia Frank On the Edge of Self and Other: Holy Bodies in Late Antiquity   171 Patricia Cox Miller The Body as/at the Boundary of Gnosis   195 David Brakke Martyrology and the Prurient Gaze   215 David Frankfurter Carnal Excess: Flesh at the Limits of Imagination   247 Virginia Burrus The Unbounded Body in the Age of Liturgical Reproduction   267 Derek Krueger Contested Bodies: Early Christian Asceticism and Nineteenth-Century Polemics   281 Elizabeth A. Clark ————————— The Place of the Hypotyposeis in the Clementine Corpus: An Apology for “The Other Clement of Alexandria”   313 Bogdan G. Bucur An Example of How to Die Nobly for Religion: The Influence of 4 Maccabees on Origen’s Exhortatio ad Martyrium   337 David A. deSilva Ad Quirinum Book Three and Cyprian’s Catechumenate   357 Andy Alexis-Baker Cyril of Alexandria and Gregory Nazianzen: Tradition and Complexity in Patristic Christology   381 Christopher A. Beeley Gregory the Great and Eustratius of Constantinople: The Dialogues on the Miracles of the Italian Fathers as an Apology for the Cult of Saints   421 Matthew Dal Santo Standing in the Breach: The Significance and Function of the Saints in the Letters of Barsanuphius and John of Gaza   459 Alexis Torrance Reclaiming Paul? Reconfiguration as Reclamation in 3 Corinthians   497 Benjamin L. White Apolytrosis as Ritual and Sacrament: Determining a Ritual Context for Death in Second-Century Marcosian Valentinianism   525 Nicola Denzey Lewis Thinking with Soul: Psyche\ and Psychikos in the Construction of Early Christian Identities   563 David M. Reis Modalities of Belief in Ancient Christian Debate   605 Michael C. McCarthy, S.J. Jewish Women’s Resistance to Christianity in the Early Fifth Century: The Account of Severus, Bishop of Minorca   635 Ross S. Kraemer Book Reviews   151, 475, 667 Books Received   165, 309, 495, 689 ...