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  • By way of a preface / Columba Stewart
  • Introduction / Kristian S. Heal and Robert A. Kitchen
  • The Romano-Persian frontier and the context of the Book of steps / Geoffrey Greatrex
  • Parallel paths : tracing Manichaean footprints along the Syriac Book of steps / Timothy Pettipiece
  • The Book of steps on magic / Martien Parmentier
  • A previously unknown reattributed fragment from Memra 16 of the Book of steps / Grigory Kessel
  • A last disciple of the Apostles: the "Editor's preface, Rabbula's Rules, and the date of the Book of steps / Kyle Smith
  • Biblical exegesis in the Syriac Book of steps: a preliminary survey / René Roux
  • Did the author of the Book of steps understand Paul? / Matthias Westerhoff
  • A broken mind: the path to knowledge in the Book of steps / J.W. Childers
  • The perfect and perfection in the Book of steps / Pablo Argárate
  • You are what you eat: dietary metaphors in the Syriac Book of steps / Kelli E. Bryant
  • Falling from the path of perfection: sin in the Syriac Book of steps / Tera Stidham Harmon
  • Disturbed sinners: in pursuit of sanctity in the Book of steps / Robert A. Kitchen
  • Marriage and sexuality in the Book of steps: from encratism to orthodoxy / Sergey Minov
  • "Hidden work" of the heart and spiritual progression in the Book of steps / Thomas Kollamparampil
  • Reading the ascetic ideal into Genesis 1-3: hermeneutic strategies in the Book of steps Memra 21 / Aryeh Kofsky and Serge Ruzer
  • Lowering in order to be raised, emptying in order to be filled: the ascetical system in the Book of steps / Jason Scully.