Jewish biblical interpretation and cultural exchange : comparative exegesis in context / edited by Natalie B. Dohrmann and David Stern.
Biblical interpretation is not simply study of the Bible's meaning. This volume focuses on signal moments in the histories of scriptural interpretation of Judaism, Christianity, and Islam from the ancient period to the early modern, and shows how deeply intertwined these religions have always b...
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Table of Contents:
- Interpreting Torah traditions in Psalm 105 / Adele Berlin
- Cain : son of God or son of Satan? / Israel Knohl
- Manumission and transformation in Jewish and Roman law / Natalie B. Dohrmann
- Lessons from Jerome's Jewish teachers : exegesis and cultural interaction in late antique Palestine / Megan Hale Williams
- Ancient Jewish interpretation of the Song of Songs in a comparative context / David Stern
- Patriarchy, primogeniture, and polemic in the exegetical traditions of Judaism and Islam / Reuven Firestone
- May Karaites eat chicken? indeterminacy in Sectarian Halakhic exegesis / Daniel Frank
- Early Islamic exegesis as legal theory : how Qur'anic wisdom (ḥikma) became the sunna of the prophet / Joseph E. Lowry
- Interpreting Scripture in and through liturgy : exegesis of mass propers in the Middle Ages / Daniel Sheerin
- Exegesis and polemic in Rashbam's commentary on the Song of Songs / Sara Japhet
- Literal versus carnal : George of Siena's Christian reading of Jewish exegesis / Deeana Copeland Klepper
- Christian and Jewish iconographies of Job in fifteenth-century Italy / Fabrizio Lelli.