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appointed me a Croghan Scholar that allowed me to try out my ideas in the wider community through lectures and discussions. I would also like to thank the Mellon Foundation for a semester grant to pursue Islam and diaspora religion and the ACIS and NITLE for providing a summer seminar with extraordinarily interesting colleagues for the development of a Web site on Islam. This helped me resurrect my earlier studies in Arabic and Islam and reach a new level of comfort in dealing with Muslim texts and concepts.

I would like to acknowledge work published elsewhere in different form: “Text Translation as a Prelude for Soul Translation” in Translation and Anthropology (Ed. Paula G. Rubel and Abraham Rosman, New York: Berg, 2003), Jesus at 2000, and some parts of Paul the Convert.

A. F. SEGAL

New York, 2003

ABBREVIATIONS

Abbreviations in the notes and parenthetically in the text for the books of the Bible; Old and New Testament Apocrypha; Old and New Testament Pseudepigrapha; Dead Sea Scrolls and other texts from the Judean Desert; versions of the Taludic tractates; Targumic texts and other Rabbinic works; and Ancient and Classical Christian writings are those given in the SBL Handbook of Style (Ed. Alexander, Kutsko, Ernest, and Decker-Lucke, Hendrickson, 1999). Abbreviations for secondary sources are listed below.

AB Anchor Bible

AGJU Arbeiten zur Geschichte des antiken Judenthums und des Urchristentums

ANET Ancient Near Eastern Texts Relating to the Old Testament. Ed. J. B. Pritchard. 3d ed. Princeton, 1969.

ANRW Aufstieg und Niedergang der rómischen Welt: Geschichte und Kultur Roms im Spiegel der neueren Forschung. 1972-.

BJS Brown Judaic Studies

CAH Cambridge Ancient History

CANE Civilizations of the Ancient Near East. Ed. J. Sasson. 4 vols. New York, 1995.

CBQ Catholic Biblical Quarterly

DJD Discoveries in the Judaean Desert

EncJud Encyclopedia Judaic. 16 vols. Jerusalem, 1972.

EPRO Etudes preliminaries aux religions orientales dans l’empire romain

ER The Encyclopedia of Religion. Ed. M. Eliade. 16 vols. New York.

HR History of Religions

HTR Harvard Theological Review

HUCA Hebrew Union College Annual

IDE The Interpreter’s Dictionary of the Bible. Ed. G. A. Buttrick. 4 vols. Nashville, 1962.

JAOS Journal of American Oriental Studies

JBL Journal of Biblical Literature

JE The Jewish Encyclopedia. Ed. I. Singer. 12 vols. New York,1925.

JJS Journal of Jewish Studies

JQR Jewish Quarterly Review

JSJ Journal for the Study of Judaism in the Persian, Hellenistic, and Roman Periods

JSNT Journal for the Study of the New Testament

JSOT Journal for the Study of the Old Testament

JSPSup Journal for the Study of the Pseudepigrapha, Supplement Series

JSS Journal of Semitic Studies

JTS Journal of Theological Studies

KTU Die keilalphabetischen Texten aus Ugarit. Ed. M. Dietrich, O. Loretz, and J. Sanmartin. AOAT 24:1. Neukirchen-Vluyn, 1976.

NHL Nag Hammadi Library in English. Ed. J. M. Robinson. 4th rev. ed. Leiden, 1996.

NovT Novum Testamentum

NRSV New Revised Standard Version

NTS New Testament Studies

PGM Papyri graecae magicae: Die griechischen Zauberpapyri. Ed. K. Priesendanz. Berlin, 1928.

RB Revue Biblique

RHR Revue de l’histoire des religions

RSV Revised Standard Version SBL Society of Biblical Literature

SBLSCS Society of Biblical Literature Septuagint Cognate Studies

SRSup Studies in Religion, Supplement

TDNT Theological Dictionary of the New Testament. Ed. G. Kittel and G. Friedrich. Trans. G. W. Bromiley. 10 vols. Grand Rapids, 1964-1976.

TWNT Theologische Wórterbuch zum Neuen Testament. Ed. G. Kittel and G. Friedrich. Stuttgart, 1932-1979.

VC Vigliae christianae

VTSup Supplement to Vetus Testamentum

WUNT Wissenschaftliche Untersuchungen zum Neuen Testament

Introduction

The Vndiscover’d Country

THE DREAD of something after death,

The undiscover’d country, from whose bourn

No traveller returns, puzzles the will …

(Hamlet, Act 3, Scene 1, lines 78-80)

Shakespeare, Suicide, and Martyrdom

FEW OF US contemplate revenge or suicide as seriously as Hamlet