FREDERICK J. MURPHY is Professor in the Department of Religious Studies at the College of the Holy Cross, where he was named Distinguished Teacher of the Year in 2001. He is the author of The Religious World of Jesus: An Introduction to Sacond Temple Palestinian Judaism (Abingdon Press, 1991), which won the Alpha Sigma Nu Book Award in the Humanities in 1991 (Alpha Sigma Nu is the Honor Society of Jesuit Colleges and Universities)