The Exegetical Encounter Between Jews and Christians in Late Antiquity

Erscheinungsjahr 2009
ISBN: 978-90-04-17727-7
Verlag: Brill

Buch, Englisch, Band 18, 284 Seiten, Format (B × H): 168 mm x 247 mm, Gewicht: 626 g

Reihe: Jewish and Christian Perspectives Series

The ‘Exegetical Encounter between Jews and Christians in Late Antiquity’ is a collection of essays examining the relationship between Jewish and Christian biblical commentators.

The contributions focus on analysis of interpretations of the book of Genesis, a text which has considerable importance in both Christian and Jewish tradition. The essays cover a wide range of Jewish and Christian literature, including primarily rabbinic and patristic sources, but also apocrypha, pseudepigrapha, Philo, Josephus and Gnostic texts.

In bringing together the studies of a variety of eminent scholars on the topic of ‘Exegetical Encounter’, the book presents the latest research on the topic and illuminates a variety of original approaches to analysis of exegetical contacts between the two sets of religious groups. The volume is significant for the light it sheds on the history of relations between Jews and Christians in Late Antiquity.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Grypeou, Emmanouela

Spurling, Helen

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Christentum, Christliche Theologie Christentum/Christliche Theologie Allgemein Christentum und Weltreligionen, Weltethos
• Geisteswissenschaften Jüdische Studien Jüdische Studien Judentum und Weltreligionen, Weltethos
• Geisteswissenschaften Jüdische Studien Jüdische Studien Jüdische Studien: Literatur & Kunst
• Geisteswissenschaften Religionswissenschaft Religionswissenschaft Allgemein Religionsgeschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Jüdische Studien Jüdische Studien Heilige & Traditionstexte: Torah, Talmud, Mischna, Halacha
• Geisteswissenschaften Religionswissenschaft Religionswissenschaft Allgemein Dialog & Beziehungen zwischen Religionen
• Geisteswissenschaften Christentum, Christliche Theologie Bibelwissenschaften

Inhaltsverzeichnis

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

Über Autor(innen)

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.