Isolated passages from the writings of Josephus are routinely cited in general studies of early Jewish prophecy, but the present work is the first comprehensive examination of this material. Gray begins with a discussion of the significance of the belief--widely attested in Jewish sources from the late Second Temple period--that prophecy had ceased. She proceeds to outline a general theory about the nature and status of prophecy in this period. Giving careful consideration to the prophetic claims that Josephus makes for himself, she argues that these claims are more substantial and more...

Game is ultimately the most American ingredient, the only possible food capable of establishing itself as a defining element in a true American cuisine. So writes Rebecca Gray in the Preface of The New Gray's Wild Game Cookbook, and for the next 61 menus and 180 individual recipes she gives us what amounts to a celebration of wild game as the ultimate gourmet food. Here, in abundance, is the joy and exhilaration of preparing exquisitely matched accompaniments to beautifully prepared main dishes of venison, wild fowl, upland birds and other choice meats brought to the table by the North...

From the pages of Rebecca Gray's masterful "The New Gray's Wild Game Cookbook" these full-course venison menus run the gamut from quick-and-easy to elegant-and-expert. Peppered with anecdotes and detailed instructions and capped with a full chapter on game care from the field to the table, "Gray's Venison Cookbook" is a complete cookbook in a handily compact volume.