The essays contained in this volume comprise the text of the speeches that were given at the University of California at Berkeley & Oxford University, England, on the occasion of David Daube's eightieth birthday. The colleagues & former pupils who paid tribute to Daube were Professors Michael Smith, James Gorley, David Cohen, Calum Carmichael, Bernard Jackson, Alan Watson & Peter Stein. These essays, edited by Calum Carmichael, a noted biblical law scholar, Professor of Comparative Literature & Biblical Studies at Cornell University, & Fellow at the Oxford Centre for Postgraduate Hebrew Studies, are testament to the originality & inestimable significance of Daube's scholarship, his warmth, wit, & great humanity, & to the profound esteem & affection in which he is held.