Books in the Letter & Spirit series

Letter & Spirit Vol. 1: Reading Salvation: Word, Worship, and the Mysteries makes accessible to clergy, students, and laity the finest Catholic biblical scholarship.This volume includes:Articles: "Allegory and the Interpretation of the Old Testament in the 21st Century" by Robert Louis Wilken "The Sacrifice of Isaac in Genesis and Hebrews: A Study in the Hermeneutic of Faith" by James Swetnam, S.J. "The 'Ransom for Many,' the New Exodus, and the End of the Exile: Redemption as the Restoration of All Israel (Mark 10:35-45)" by Brant Pitre "Memorial and Typology in Jewish and Christian Liturgy" by Sofia CavallettiNotes: "Rediscovering St. Thomas Aquinas as Biblical Theologian" by Christopher T. Baglow "The Spiritual Sense in De Lubac' s Hermeneutics of Tradition" by Marcellino D' AmbrosioTradition & Traditions: "To the New Student of Sacred Scripture" by Hugh of St. Victor "The Sacrament of Sacred Scripture" by F.X. Durrwell, C.Ss.R. "Vatican II and the Truth of Sacred Scripture" by Augustin Cardinal Bea S.J

Letter & Spirit is an annual journal of Catholic Biblical Theology. We strive to publish work that is academically rigorous but accessible to the motivated lay reader. This twelfth volume, According to the Scriptures: The Mystery of Christ in the History of Salvation, is focused on current exegesis as well as the pre-modern reception of St. Paul.Articles include "A Few Obscure Men: Augustine's Reception of Saint Paul's Ignobilitas" by Fr. David Vincent Meconi, S.J.; "The Spiritual Experience of St. Paul in the Monastic Theology of St. Bernard" by Fr. Thomas Esposito, O.Cist.; "Paul's Rhetorical Purpose in Ephesians 4:9-10: Upsilon Vector Mim¿sis" by William Bales; and "Exegesis and Ecclesiology in Augustine's City of God" by John Cavadini.