Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Part I: HERMENEUTICAL CONNECTIONS -- 'These then let us emulate': the early church illuminates two gospel impairment encounters / Simon Horne -- Wilderness woman: the taming of Miriam / Christine Trevett -- Women in the wilderness: rereading Revelation 12 / Diane Treacy-Cole -- Mountain and the desert / David Parker -- Finding identity in the wilderness / Lynne Wall -- Wilderness quotation in Mark 1.2-3 / Steve Moyise -- Reading Jesus in the wilderness / Judith Lieu -- Poor wise man and the cacophony of voices / Paul M. Joyce -- Mimesis, typology and the institution narrative: some observations on Tradio Apostolica 4 and its afterlife / Alistair Stewart-Sykes -- 'Incense in our land': Julian Saba and early Syrian Christianity / Susan Ashbrook Harvey -- Part II: THEOLOGICAL EXPLORATIONS -- Wilderness, revelation and the New Jerusalem in radical Christian writings / Christopher Rowland -- From evil thoughts to deadly sins: Evagrius of Pontus's psychology of sin / Angela Tilby -- Wilderness wisdom for the twenty-first century: Arthur, L'Arche and the culmination of Christian history / David F. Ford -- From wilderness toward home / Jean Vanier -- Wilderness wanderers and their theological significance in J. R. R. Tolkien's The Lord of the Rings / Emily Hunt -- Jesus in the Qur'an, the historical Jesus and the myth of God incarnate / Neal Robinson.