only in Germany, but also widely abroad, which made the printing of further volumes economically possible. For this demand of my work, I would like to call upon him, who would not live to see its appearance, now that it is ready, my warm thanks.6 If this is indeed accurate, and Joachim Jeremias believes it is,7 Billerbeck’s accomplishment of almost single-handedly assembling this vast collection of parallels is even more impressive. The overall aim of Strack-Billerbeck is perhaps best