1. The symposium at the Christian Scholars Conference held at Lipscomb University in Nashville, TN, June 4, 2010, from which three of these articles come, included a paper by Tom Finn, “Augustine on Baptism: An Early Scholastic?” Being concerned with the Medieval West (especially Peter Lombard), it is omitted from this collection as outside the scope of JECS. The paper nonetheless added a useful dimension to the symposium, and I express here my thanks to Finn for his work in preparing the paper and for his friendly involvement in my work. 2. Ablution, Initiation, and Baptism: Late Antiquity, Early Judaism, and Early Christianity / Waschungen / Initiation und Taufe: Spatantike, Fruhes Judentum und Fruhes Christentum, ed. David Hellholm, Tor Vegge, Oyvind Norderval, and Christer Hellholm, Beihefte zur Zeitschrift fur die neutestamentliche Wissenschaft 176, 3 vols. (Berlin/Boston: Walter de Gruyter, 2011). Response to Contributors