TY - BOOK ID - 3409032 TI - The book of Genesis in late antiquity : encounters between Jewish and Christian exegesis PY - 2013 VL - 24 SN - 9789004245525 9789004245556 9004245529 9004245553 PB - Leiden ; Boston : Brill, DB - UniCat KW - Bible KW - Criticism, interpretation, etc KW - History KW - 222.2 KW - 221.06 <09> KW - Genesis KW - Oud Testament: exegese--<geschiedenis> KW - Bible. KW - Be-reshit (Book of the Old Testament) KW - Bereshit (Book of the Old Testament) KW - Bytie (Book of the Old Testament) KW - Chʻangsegi (Book of the Old Testament) KW - Genesis (Book of the Old Testament) KW - Sifr al-Takwīn KW - Takwīn (Book of the Old Testament) KW - Criticism, interpretation, etc. KW - -History KW - -Bible. KW - Critique, interprétation, etc. KW - Histoire KW - -222.2 KW - 221.06 <09> Oud Testament: exegese--<geschiedenis> KW - -221.06 <09> KW - RELIGION / Biblical Studies / Old Testament KW - Christianity KW - Judaism KW - History and criticism. KW - Controversial literature UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:3409032 AB - The Book of Genesis in Late Antiquity: Encounters between Jewish and Christian Exegesis 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. The research was funded by an award from the Leverhulme Trust at the Centre for the Study of Jewish-Christian Relations, Cambridge, UK, and the Centre for Advanced Religious and Theological Studies of the Faculty of Divinity, University of Cambridge, UK. ER -