The exegetical encounter between Jews and Christians in late antiquity / edited by Emmanouela Grypeou, Helen Spurling.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Grypeou, Emmanouela.

Spurling, Helen

Anne and Joseph Trachtman Memorial Book Fund.

Series:

Jewish and Christian perspectives series ; v. 18.

Jewish and Christian perspectives series ; v. 18

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Bible. Genesis--Criticism, interpretation, etc--Congresses.

Bible.

Bible. Old Testament--Criticism, interpretation, etc--History--Early church, ca. 30-600--Congresses.

Bible. Old Testament--Criticism, interpretation, etc., Jewish--History--To 1500--Congresses.

Bible. Old Testament.

Bible. Genesis.

Christianity and other religions--Judaism--Congresses.

Christianity and other religions.

Judaism.

Judaism--Relations--Christianity--Congresses.

Relations.

Christianity.

History.

Genre:

Conference papers and proceedings.

Physical Description:

xix, 279 pages ; 25 cm.

Place of Publication:

Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2009.

Contents:

Adam alone in Paradise : a Jewish-Christian exegesis and its implications for the history of asceticism / Dmitrij F. Bumazhov

Will and grace : apsects of judaising in Pelagianism in light of Rabbinic and patristic exegesis of Genesis / Burton L. Visotzky

The Christian and the rabbinic Adam : Genesis Rabbah and patristic exegesis of Gen 3:17-19 / Hanneke Reuling

Critical gnostic interpretations of Genesis / Gerard P. Luttikhuizen

'Be you a lyre for me' : identity and 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 and God's blessings / Judith Frishman

Abraham's angels : Jewish and Christian exegesis of Genesis 18-19 / Emmanouela Grypeou, 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.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Anne and Joseph Trachtman Memorial Book Fund.

ISBN:

9789004177277

9004177272

OCLC:

416137066

Publisher Number:

99943021513