Letter & Spirit Vol. 1: Reading Salvation: Word, Worship, and the Mysteries makes accessible to clergy, students, and laity the finest Catholic biblical scholarship.This volume includes: Articles: "Allegory and the Interpretation of the Old Testament in the 21st Century" by Robert Louis Wilken "The Sacrifice of Isaac in Genesis and Hebrews: A Study in the Hermeneutic of Faith" by James Swetnam, S.J. "The 'Ransom for Many, ' the New Exodus, and the End of the Exile: Redemption as the Restoration of All Israel (Mark 10:35-45)" by Brant Pitre "Memorial and Typology in Jewish and Christian Liturgy" by Sofia Cavalletti Notes: "Rediscovering St. Thomas Aquinas as Biblical Theologian" by Christopher T. Baglow "The Spiritual Sense in De Lubac' s Hermeneutics of Tradition" by Marcellino D' Ambrosio Tradition & Traditions: "To the New Student of Sacred Scripture" by Hugh of St. Victor "The Sacrament of Sacred Scripture" by F.X. Durrwell, C.Ss.R. "Vatican II and the Truth of Sacred Scripture" by Augustin Cardinal Bea S.J