This book is a revised version of my doctoral thesis and as such the list of people to thank for their help and support in the course of writing both the thesis and then the subsequent book version could run into very, very many pages. More and more names are always added to the list the longer the process continues. There will inevitably be those whom I fail to mention, despite their meriting copious thanks. First of all, I am of course grateful for the AHRC/Merton Studentship which made undertaking my DPhil possible; additional thanks are due to the Polonsky Foundation for funding a research trip to Jerusalem in December 2013 through the Graduate Workshop on the Abrahamic Religions. Thanks are also due to my assessors at various points in the DPhil process—Amin Benaissa, Teresa Morgan and Georgy Kantor—and to my internal and external examiners, Alison Salvesen and Jill Harries, both for making the viva a stimulating and thoroughly enjoyable occasion, and for their invaluable comments and advice on how to turn the thesis into a monograph. Further thanks to Jill for her subsequent help with getting to that stage and seemingly unending support and encouragement. Any failure to heed their advice falls entirely on my own head.