Contents: Michael Fishbane, ‘From Midrash to Epic: The Reshaping of Rabbinic Discourse in Jewish Synagogue Poetry (Piyut)’; Michael Heyd, ‘From Total Depravity to Limited Autonomy: Reflections on the Transformative Potential of Protestantism’; Moshe Idel, ‘The Hasidic Revival: An Interpretation of the Emergence of a Spiritual Movement’; Yosef Kaplan, ‘Confessionalization and Religious Authority in the Early Modern Western Sephardic Diaspora’; Yohanan Friedmann, ’Conversion, Apostasy and Excommunication in the Islamic Tradition’.