Exegetical Encounter between Jews and Christians in Late Antiquity

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.

• PrefaceEdward KesslerIntroductionHelen Spurling-Emmanouela Grypeou‘In the Beginning’: Rabbinic and Patristic Exegesis on Genesis 1:1Philip AlexanderAdam Alone in Paradise. A Jewish-Christian Exegesis and Its Implications for the History of AsceticismDmitrij F. BumazhnovWill and Grace: Aspects of Judaising in Pelagianism in Light of Rabbinic and Patristic Exegesis of GenesisBurton L. VisotzkyThe Christian and Rabbinic Adam: Genesis Rabbah and Patristic Exegesis of Gen 3:17-19Hanneke ReulingCritical Gnostic Interpretation of GenesisGerard P. Luttikhuizen‘Be You a Lyre For Me’: Identity or Manipulation in EdenMichael E. StoneWhat Did Cain Do Wrong? Jewish and Christian Exegesis of Genesis 4:3-6Robert HaywardCreating Women’s Voices: Sarah and Tamar in Some Syriac Narrative PoemsSebastian P. BrockGenesis 15 in Rabbinic and Patristic InterpretationGünter Stemberger‘And Abraham Had Faith’: But In What? Ephrem and the Rabbis on Abraham’s and God’s BlessingsJudith FrishmanAbraham’s Angels: Jewish and Christian Exegesis of Genesis 18-19Emmanouela Grypeou and Helen SpurlingKeeping it in the Family? Jacob and His Aramean Heritage according to Jewish and Christian SourcesAlison SalvesenEarly Rabbinic Exegesis of Genesis 38Stefan C. ReifOrigen’s View of ‘Jewish Fables’ in GenesisMarc Hirshman

"The quality of all contributions is unique, as one should expect from a work edited by Brill. The volume presents papers from many known scholars in the biblical studies’ field, such as Michael Stone and Alison Salvesen" – Julio Cesar Dias Chaves, in: Laval théologique et philosophique 68/2 (2012)