Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

A personal word / Raymond E. Brown. -- Defining the word 'apocalyptic' : a problem in Biblical criticism / Richard E. Sturm. -- 'The time has been fulfilled!' (Mark 1.15) / Joel Marcus. -- Mark 14.62 : early Christian Merkabah imagery? / Jane Schaberg. -- Apocalyptic paraenesis in Matthew 6.19-34 / Stephenson H. Brooks. -- 'To the close of the age' : the role of apocalyptic thought in the gospel of Matthew / O. Lamar Cope. -- Eschatological existence in Matthew and Paul : Coincidentia oppositorum / Robin Scroggs. -- Epistemology at the turn of the ages in Paul, Jesus, and Mark : rhetoric and dialectic in apocalyptic and the New Testament / Thomas E. Boomershine. -- Paul and Jewish apocalyptic eschatology / Martinus C. de Boer. -- 'The Righteous One" as eschatological deliverer : a case study in Paul's apocalyptic hermeneutics / Richard B. Hays. -- The archons, the Spirit, and the death of Christ : do we need the hypothesis of Gnostic opponents to explain 1 Corinthians 2.6-16? / Judith L. Kovacs.

Seeking (zt̄ein) and sinning (hamartōlos and hamartia) according to Galatians 2.17 / Marion L. Soards. -- Who are the heirs of the new age in the epistle to the Hebrews? / Charles P. Anderson. -- The significance of Pauline apocalyptic for theological ethics / Nancy J. Duff. -- Barmen and the church's call to faithfulness and social responsibility / Paul Lehmann. -- A child and Adam : a parable of the two ages / Dorothy W. Martyn.