Author: Grypeou, Emmanouela & Helen Spurling.
Title: The book of Genesis in late antiquity. Encounters between Jewish and Christian exegesis.
Description: Leiden & Boston, Brill, 2013. X,537 pp. Orig. hardcover (boards). 8vo. (Jewish and Christian perspectives series, Vol. 24). [ISBN: 978-90-04-24552-5]. - As new.This work 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. - - Publisher's retail price: € 178,76.

Keywords: Judaïca Theology Chrisianity Judaïca Theologie Christendom