Loren T. Stuckenbruck (Herausgegeben von) Born 1960; BA Milligan College; MDiv and PhD Princeton Theological Seminary; since 2012 Chair of New Testament Studies (with Emphasis on Ancient Judaism) at Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich, Germany.Daniel L. Smith (Herausgegeben von) Born 1982; BA Gordon College; MA and PhD University of Notre Dame; since 2012 Associate Professor of New Testament at Saint Louis University, St. Louis, Missouri, USA.

• Daniel L. Smith/Loren T. Stuckenbruck: Introduction - Michael Francis: Philo of Alexandria on Testing and Temptation - Madison N. Pierce: Testing and Being Tested in the Epistle to the Hebrews - Loren T. Stuckenbruck: Eschatological Temptation the Enochic Way: A Note on 1 Enoch 94:5 - Todd R. Hanneken: Ten-Times-Tested Abraham in the Book of Jubilees - Susanne Luther: Preparing for Temptation in a Culture of Mutual Ethical Responsibility - Tzvi Novick: Life as Test: Reflections on m. 'Abot 2:4 and Related Texts - Andrew Bowden: "And the Mixed among Them Desired a Desire": The Reception of Desire in Numbers 11 LXX in Greek Texts, Ending with the Apostle Paul - Jan Willem van Henten: The Triangle of Testing in the Wilderness - Daniel L. Smith: Testing the Child of God at the Beginning and until the End: ΠΕΙΡΑΣΜΟΣ and Theological Anthropology in Ancient Jewish and Christian Texts - Susan R. Garrett: (Not) Knowing Where I'm Going: Ignorance and Agony for Jesus and Job - Benjamin G. Wright III: Unbridled Libido: Ben Sira and the Billy Graham Rule