Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Preface vii
4. Introduction: On Comparative Biblical Exegesis–Interpretation, Influence, Appropriation 1
5. 1. Interpreting Torah Traditions in Psalm 105 20
6. 2. Cain: Son of God or Son of Satan? 37
7. 3. Manumission and Transformation in Jewish and Roman Law 51
8. 4. Lessons from Jerome’s Jewish Teachers: Exegesis and Cultural Interaction in Late Antique Palestine 66
9. 5. Ancient Jewish Interpretation of the Song of Songs in a Comparative Context 87
10. 6. Patriarchy, Primogeniture, and Polemic in the Exegetical Traditions of Judaism and Islam 108
11. 7. May Karaites Eat Chicken? Indeterminacy in Sectarian Halakhic Exegesis 124
12. 8. Early Islamic Exegesis as Legal Theory: How Qur’anic Wisdom (Hikma) Became the Sunna of the Prophet 139
13. 9. Interpreting Scripture in and through Liturgy: Exegesis of Mass Propers in the Middle Ages 161
14. 10. Exegesis and Polemic in Rashbam’s Commentary on the Song of Songs 182
15. 11. Literal versus Carnal: George of Siena’s Christian Reading of Jewish Exegesis 196
16. 12. Christian and Jewish Iconographies of Job in Fifteenth-Century Italy 214
17. Notes 237
18. List of Contributors 327
19. Index of Persons 329
20. Index of Sources 333