Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Some unanticipated consequences of the Sinai revelation : a religion of laws / James L. Kugel -- "Fire, cloud, and deep darkness" (Deuteronomy 5:22) : Deuteronomy's recasting of revelation / Marc Zvi Brettler -- Priestly prophets at Qumran : summoning Sinai through the Songs of the Sabbath sacrifice / Judith H. Newman -- Moving mountains : from Sinai to Jerusalem / George J. Brooke -- Moses, David and scribal revelation : preservation and renewal in Second Temple Jewish textual traditions / Eva Mroczek -- The giving of the Torah at Sinai and the ethics of the Qumran community / Marcus Tso -- Josephus' "Theokratia" and Mosaic discourse : the actualization of the revelation at Sinai / Zuleika Rodgers -- Why did Paul include an exegesis of Moses' shining face (Exod 34) in 2 Cor 3? : Moses' strength, well-being and (transitory) glory, according to Philo, Josephus, Paul, and the Corinthian sophists / George H. van Kooten -- In the mirror of the divine face : the Enochic features of the Exagoge of Ezekiel the Tragedian / Andrei Orlov -- Torah and eschatology in the Syriac apocalypse of Baruch / Matthias Henze -- Can the homilists cross the sea again? : revelation in Mekilta shirata / Ishay Rosen-Zvi -- Hearing and seeing at Sinai : interpretive trajectories / Steven D. Fraade -- The giving of the Torah : targumic perspectives / Charles Thomas, Robert Hayward -- God's back! : what did Moses see on Sinai? / Diana Lipton -- Sinai in art and architecture / David Brown -- Sinai since Spinoza : reflections on revelation in modern Jewish thought / Paul Franks.