Wilderness: Essays in Honour of Frances Young Book

	Profile : Frances Young	1
	'These then let us emulate' : the early church illuminates two gospel impairment encounters	10
	Wilderness woman : the taming of Miriam	26
	Women in the wilderness : rereading Revelation 12	45
	The mountain and the desert	59
	Finding identity in the wilderness	66
	The wilderness quotation in Mark 1.2-3	78
	Reading Jesus in the wilderness	88
	The poor wise man and the cacophony of voices	101
	Mimesis, typology and the institution narrative : some observations on Traditio Apostolica 4 and its afterlife	106
	'Incense in our land' : Julian Saba and early Syrian Christianity	120
	Wilderness, revelation and the New Jerusalem in radical Christian writings	134
	From evil thoughts to deadly sins : evagrius of Pontus's psychology of sin	143
	Wilderness wisdom for the twenty-first century : Arthur, L'Arche and the culmination of Christian history	153
	From wilderness towards home	167
	Wilderness wanderers and their theological significance in J. R. R. Tolkien's The lord of the rings	175
	Jesus in the Qur'an, the historical Jesus and the myth of God incarnate	186