The Exegetical Encounter between Jews and Christians in Late Antiquity
Biographical note
Emmanouela Grypeou has a Ph.D. in Languages and Cultures of the Christian Orient, and is a Research Fellow at the Centre for the Study of Jewish-Christian Relations (Cambridge, UK). Her previous publications include Das vollkommene Pascha: Gnostische Bibelexegese und gnostische Ethik (2005, Wiesbaden) and (together with M.Swanson and D. Thomas, eds) The Encounter of Eastern Christianity with Early Islam (2006, Leiden). She is currently working on Eastern Christian and Byzantine apocalyptic and exegetical literature.
Helen Spurling has a Ph.D. in Rabbinics with particular focus on Midrashic literature from Cambridge University. She is a Research Fellow at the Centre for the Study of Jewish-Christian Relations (Cambridge, UK), and has written articles on the subject of exegetical encounter in Collectanea Christiana Orientalia and The Harp. She has contributed to The Dictionary of Classical Hebrew and current projects include analysis of Jewish apocalyptic literature from Late Antiquity.
Helen Spurling has a Ph.D. in Rabbinics with particular focus on Midrashic literature from Cambridge University. She is a Research Fellow at the Centre for the Study of Jewish-Christian Relations (Cambridge, UK), and has written articles on the subject of exegetical encounter in Collectanea Christiana Orientalia and The Harp. She has contributed to The Dictionary of Classical Hebrew and current projects include analysis of Jewish apocalyptic literature from Late Antiquity.
Readership
All those interested in Biblical Studies, Patristic and Rabbinic literature, the History of Biblical Exegesis, and the Relations between Christian and Jews in Late Antiquity
Table of contents
Preface
Edward Kessler
Introduction
Helen Spurling-Emmanouela Grypeou
‘In the Beginning’: Rabbinic and Patristic Exegesis on Genesis 1:1
Philip Alexander
Adam Alone in Paradise. A Jewish-Christian Exegesis and Its Implications for the History of Asceticism
Dmitrij F. Bumazhnov
Will and Grace: Aspects of Judaising in Pelagianism in Light of Rabbinic and Patristic Exegesis of Genesis
Burton L. Visotzky
The Christian and Rabbinic Adam: Genesis Rabbah and Patristic Exegesis of Gen 3:17-19
Hanneke Reuling
Critical Gnostic Interpretation of Genesis
Gerard P. Luttikhuizen
‘Be You a Lyre For Me’: Identity or Manipulation in Eden
Michael E. Stone
What Did Cain Do Wrong? Jewish and Christian Exegesis of Genesis 4:3-6
Robert Hayward
Creating Women’s Voices: Sarah and Tamar in Some Syriac Narrative Poems
Sebastian P. Brock
Genesis 15 in Rabbinic and Patristic Interpretation
Günter Stemberger
‘And Abraham Had Faith’: But In What? Ephrem and the Rabbis on Abraham’s and God’s Blessings
Judith Frishman
Abraham’s Angels: Jewish and Christian Exegesis of Genesis 18-19
Emmanouela Grypeou and Helen Spurling
Keeping it in the Family? Jacob and His Aramean Heritage according to Jewish and Christian Sources
Alison Salvesen
Early Rabbinic Exegesis of Genesis 38
Stefan C. Reif
Origen’s View of ‘Jewish Fables’ in Genesis
Marc Hirshman
Edward Kessler
Introduction
Helen Spurling-Emmanouela Grypeou
‘In the Beginning’: Rabbinic and Patristic Exegesis on Genesis 1:1
Philip Alexander
Adam Alone in Paradise. A Jewish-Christian Exegesis and Its Implications for the History of Asceticism
Dmitrij F. Bumazhnov
Will and Grace: Aspects of Judaising in Pelagianism in Light of Rabbinic and Patristic Exegesis of Genesis
Burton L. Visotzky
The Christian and Rabbinic Adam: Genesis Rabbah and Patristic Exegesis of Gen 3:17-19
Hanneke Reuling
Critical Gnostic Interpretation of Genesis
Gerard P. Luttikhuizen
‘Be You a Lyre For Me’: Identity or Manipulation in Eden
Michael E. Stone
What Did Cain Do Wrong? Jewish and Christian Exegesis of Genesis 4:3-6
Robert Hayward
Creating Women’s Voices: Sarah and Tamar in Some Syriac Narrative Poems
Sebastian P. Brock
Genesis 15 in Rabbinic and Patristic Interpretation
Günter Stemberger
‘And Abraham Had Faith’: But In What? Ephrem and the Rabbis on Abraham’s and God’s Blessings
Judith Frishman
Abraham’s Angels: Jewish and Christian Exegesis of Genesis 18-19
Emmanouela Grypeou and Helen Spurling
Keeping it in the Family? Jacob and His Aramean Heritage according to Jewish and Christian Sources
Alison Salvesen
Early Rabbinic Exegesis of Genesis 38
Stefan C. Reif
Origen’s View of ‘Jewish Fables’ in Genesis
Marc Hirshman
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