Leading international contributors intersect with the work of James H. Charlesworth and examine Charlesworth's vast contribution to the field of biblical studies.

Divided into five sections, this volume begins with a section on the Hebrew Bible and the New Testament texts, with particular focus on the gospel of John and Jesus studies. Next, the contexts of these texts are considered with a focus on the Greco-Roman and Jewish worlds, and the varying intersections between texts and the worlds that created them. The next two sections focus on the most significant body of Charlesworth's work, the apocyrpha/pseudepigrapha and the Dead Sea Scrolls. The volume concludes with a section on the history of scholarship on the core areas addressed across the book.