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Information

Publisher

University of Pennsylvania Press

Year

2013

ISBN

9780812209457

Topic

Theology & Religion

Subtopic

Biblical Criticism & Interpretation

Cover
Contents
Preface
Introduction: On Comparative Biblical Exegesis—Interpretation, Influence, Appropriation
1. Interpreting Torah Traditions in Psalm 105
2. Cain: Son of God or Son of Satan?
3. Manumission and Transformation in Jewish and Roman Law
4. Lessons from Jerome’s Jewish Teachers: Exegesis and Cultural Interaction in Late Antique Palestine
5. Ancient Jewish Interpretation of the Song of Songs in a Comparative Context
6. Patriarchy, Primogeniture, and Polemic in the Exegetical Traditions of Judaism and Islam
7. May Karaites Eat Chicken? Indeterminacy in Sectarian Halakhic Exegesis
8. Early Islamic Exegesis as Legal Theory: How Qur’anic Wisdom (Ḥikma) Became the Sunna of the Prophet
9. Interpreting Scripture in and through Liturgy: Exegesis of Mass Propers in the Middle Ages
10. Exegesis and Polemic in Rashbam’s Commentary on the Song of Songs
11. Literal versus Carnal: George of Siena’s Christian Reading of Jewish Exegesis
12. Christian and Jewish Iconographies of Job in Fifteenth-Century Italy
Notes
List of Contributors
Index of Persons
Index of Sources