From Rabbinic Homilies to Geonic Doctrinal Exegesis

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter I
2. Table of Contents V
3. Exegetical Crossroads 1
4. “A Wandering Aramean was My Father” 9
5. Jesus, the Wondrous Infant, at the Exegetical Crossroads of Christian Late Antiquity and Early Islam 27
6. The Letters of the East Syrian Patriarch Timothy I 47
7. Scripture Interpreting the Church’s Story 61
8. Use and Interpretation of Scriptural Proof-Texts in Christian–Muslim Apologetic Literature in Arabic 73
9. “Min al-‘aql wa-laysa min al-kutub” 95
10. The Lyre of Exegesis 119
11. “Christ has subjected us to the harsh yoke of the Arabs” 145
12. From Rabbinic Homilies to Geonic Doctrinal Exegesis 163
13. “Hidden Transcripts” in Late Midrash Made Visible 199
14. Theological Deadlocks in the Muslim-Christian Exegetical Discourse of the Medieval Orient 243
15. Two Types of Inner-Qur’ānic Interpretation 253
16. Moses, Son of Pharaoh 289
17. Unity and Coherence in the Qur’ān 303
18. Qur’ānic Exegesis as an Exclusive Art – Diving for the Starting Point of Ṣūfī Tafsīr 319
19. Ibn Kammūna’s Knowledge of, and Attitude toward, the Qur’ān 329
20. Bibliography 339
21. Authors 379
22. The Editors 381
23. Index of used verses from the Bible, the Qur’ān and Apocrypha 383
24. Index 391