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It is a great honor and a personal pleasure to present this “Festschrift” to you on the occasion of your eightieth birthday and the retirement from your professorship at Princeton Theological Seminary both as the George L. Collord Professor of New Testament Language and Literature and as the director of the Dead Sea Scrolls Project. We have decided to call the Festschrift a “Conversation” as we want to highlight a central aspect of your scholarship and personality, namely that you have always placed the academic exchange and dialogue with other scholars, whether junior or senior, from past, present, and future generations in the center of all your work. More so, you have put the dialogue between the very subdisciplines in Biblical Studies, whether New Testament Studies, Qumran Studies, Pseudepigrapha Research, Archeology, Hermeneutics, and indeed also the global Church, in the center of your life and work. In everything you have done, you have always encouraged other colleagues, whether senior professors or young and aspiring graduate students, in their own work and have offered them multiple opportunities to join in a conversation and to contribute to a seminar, a conference, or a publication. Allow us to give some examples from our own lives, which you have touched in so many ways. After you had edited and published the two-volume Old Testament Pseudepigrapha, as such already a monument of cooperation with over fifty colleagues from many different fields and a lasting contribution to Biblical Studies that would change the discipline in so many ways, you would promote the work and attend many international conferences. On one of them, a Jewish Studies conference in 1987 in Berlin organized by Peter Schäfer, you not only gave one of the main papers but also engaged and curiously asked about the research of young graduate students, of which I was one, showing your interest in the work of scholars not only from North America but also from East and West Europe and Israel. When I told you that I was working on the “messianic expectations” during the Second Temple Period, you immediately sent me the papers of a conference you had organized on the topic “The Messiah” before they were even published, so that you could help me with my research. Another example of your trailblazing research were your early efforts to fruitfully engage in research into the Dead Sea Scrolls with New Testament Studies. Whereas you were not the first one, as a previous generation of scholars had already started with it, you were one of the most successful ones. You were not only successful in editing and translating the Dead Sea Scrolls in the multivolume Princeton Theological Seminary Dead Sea Scrolls Project for many years but also, for example, you have cochaired, together with Hermann Lichtenberger of the University of Tübingen, the Societas Novi Testamenti Studiorum Seminar on “Qumran and Christian Origins” for many years. By doing this you have initiated and invited many young scholars to find new paths in research and engage in international exchange at the highest level. Equally successful were your contributions to the SNTS Seminar on “The Pseudepigrapha and Christian Origins” and other venues of motivating and supporting exchange between Pseudepigrapha Research and New Testament Studies, such as the Society of Biblical Literature and the Enoch Seminar, since several decades. On top of that you would organize your own very successful conferences, such as the Princeton–Prague Symposium on Jesus and The Dead Sea Scrolls and the Bible. A further example of your lasting contributions is found in your successful efforts to place the study of the Dead Sea Scrolls, the Pseudepigrapha, and the New Testament in the broader context of the study of Early Judaism and Christian Origins, a field that has radically changed from seeing “Late Judaism” as only contributing to the Christian New Testament to being an independent area of research that was crucial for the development of later Christianity and Rabbinic Judaism, the post-Holocaust Jewish-Christian dialogue, indeed modern-day church and society. One outcome of this approach was the 2003 conference on “The Changing Face of Judaism, Christianity and Other Greco-Roman Religions” that was inspired by and dedicated to your contributions.