Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. CONTENTS ix
3. Acknowledgments xi
4. Note on Transliteration and References xiii
5. Introduction 1
6. Part I. Strategies of Reading on the Borders of Islam
7. 1 The Father of Many Nations: Abraham in al- Andalus 29
8. 2 Ibn al- Maḥrūmah’s Notes on Ibn Kammūnah’s Examination of the Three Religions: The Issue of the Abrogation of Mosaic Law 40
9. 3 Al- Biqāʿī Seen through Reuchlin: Reflections on the Islamic Relationship with the Bible 58
10. Part II. Dominicans and Their Disputations
11. 4 Two Dominicans, a Lost Manuscript, and Medieval Christian Thought on Islam 71
12. 5 The Anti- Muslim Discourse of Alfonso Buenhombre 87
13. 6 Reconstructing Medieval Jewish– Christian Disputations 101
14. Part III. Authority and Scripture between Jewish and Christian Readers
15. 7 Reconstructing Thirteenth- Century Jewish– Christian Polemic: From Paris 1240 to Barcelona 1263 and Back Again 115
16. 8 A Christianized Sephardic Critique of Rashi’s Peshaṭ in Pablo de Santa María’s Additiones ad Postillam Nicolai de Lyra 128
17. 9 Jewish and Christian Interpretations in Arragel’s Biblical Glosses 142
18. Part IV. Exegesis and Gender: Vocabularies of Difference
19. 10 Between Epic Entertainment and Polemical Exegesis: Jesus as Antihero in Toledot Yeshu 155
20. 11 Sons of God, Daughters of Man, and the Formation of Human Society in Nahmanides’s Exegesis 171
21. 12 Late Medieval Readings of the Strange Woman in Proverbs 187
22. 13 Exegesis as Autobiography: The Case of Guillaume de Bourges 200
23. Notes 217
24. Bibliography 287
25. List of Contributors 319
26. Index 323