Publisher's description:
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.

Table of contents:
Introduction
IN PARADISE: ADAM FROM CREATION TO RESURRECTION
Rabbinic Traditions
Paradise Lost and Paradise Regained: The Christian Approach
The Exegetical Encounter
CAIN AND ABEL
Rabbinic Traditions
The Christian Tradition
The Exegetical Encounter
THE FLOOD STORY
Rabbinic Traditions
The Christian Tradition
The Exegetical Encounter
ABRAHAM AND MELCHIZEDEK
Rabbinic Traditions
The Christian Tradition
The Exegetical Encounter
HAGAR AND ISHMAEL
The Rabbinic Traditions
The Christian Tradition
The Exegetical Encounter
JACOB'S LADDER
Rabbinic Traditions
The Christian Tradition
The Exegetical Encounter
JOSEPH AND POTIPHAR
Rabbinic Traditions
The Christian Approach
The Exegetical Encounter
THE BLESSING ON JUDAH
Rabbinic Traditions
Jacob's Blessing on Judah: The Christian Approach
The Exegetical Encounter
CONCLUSIONS