encounters between Jewish and Christian exegesis /
First Statement of Responsibility
by Emmanouela Grypeou and Helen Spurling.
PROJECTED PUBLICATION DATE
Date
1302
Date
1302
Date
1302.
PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION
Specific Material Designation and Extent of Item
x, 537 pages ;
Dimensions
24 cm.
SERIES
Series Title
Jewish and Christian perspectives series ;
Volume Designation
v. 24.
INTERNAL BIBLIOGRAPHIES/INDEXES NOTE
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
CONTENTS NOTE
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In paradise : Adam from creation to resurrection -- Cain and Abel -- The flood story -- Abraham and Melchizedek -- Hagar and Ishmael -- Jacob's ladder -- Joseph and Potiphar -- The blessing on Judah.
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SUMMARY OR ABSTRACT
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This book examines the relationship between rabbinic and Christian exegetical writings of Late Antiquity in the Eastern Roman Empire and Mesopotamia. The volume identifies and analyses evidence of potential 'encounters' between rabbinic and Christian interpretations of the book of Genesis. Each chapter investigates exegesis of a different episode of Genesis, including the Paradise Story, Cain and Abel, the Flood Story, Abraham and Melchizedek, Hagar and Ishmael, Jacob's Ladder, Joseph and Potiphar and the Blessing on Judah. The book discusses a wide range of Jewish and Christian literature, including primarily rabbinic and patristic traditions, but also apocrypha, pseudepigrapha, Philo and Josephus. The volume sheds light on the history of the relationship between Jews and Christians in Late Antiquity, and brings together two scholars (of Rabbinics and of Eastern Christianity) in a truly collaborative work.
TITLE USED AS SUBJECT
Bible., Genesis-- Criticism, interpretation, etc.-- History-- Early church, ca. 30-600.