‎Contents

‎List of Figures

‎Chapter 1. Hebrew Texts in Jewish, Christian and Muslim Surroundings (Spronk and van Staalduine-Sulman)

‎Part 1. Hebrew Texts in Jewish Surroundings

‎Chapter 2. Converted Demons: Fallen Angels Who Repented (de Moor)

‎Chapter 3. Jephthah and Saul: An Intertextual Reading of Judges 11:29–40 in Comparison with Rabbinic Exegesis (Spronk)

‎Chapter 4. Two Women, One God and the Reader: Theology in Four Recensions of Hannah’s Song (1Samuel 2:1–10) (van Staalduine-Sulman)

‎Chapter 5. Between Hermeneutics and Rhetorics: The Parable of the Slave Who Buys a Rotten Fish in Exegetical and Homiletical Midrashim (Teugels)

‎Chapter 6. The Beauty of Sarah in Rabbinic Literature (Kadari)

‎Chapter 7. David’s Strengths and Weaknesses in the Targum of the Psalms (Lorein)

‎Chapter 8. From ‘Writtenness’ to ‘Spokenness’: Martin Buber and His Forgotten Contemporaries on Colometry (Hoogewoud)

‎Chapter 9. Imitating Dutch Protestants: Jewish Educational Literature on the Biblical History from the 19th and the First Half of the 20th Century (Houtman)

‎Part 2. Hebrew Texts in Muslim and Christian Surroundings

‎Chapter 10. Jewish Influences upon Islamic Storytelling: The Example of David and Bathsheba (Poorthuis)

‎Chapter 11. Elazar ben Jacob of Baghdad in Jewish Liturgy (van Bekkum)

‎Chapter 12. Midrash Bereshit Rabbah in Christian Bindings: A Newly Discovered Medieval Ashkenazic Manuscript Fragment from Jena (Lehnardt)

‎Chapter 13. Martin Luther—Precursor of Modern Antisemitism? (Kirn)

‎Chapter 14. ‘You are Constantly Looking over My Shoulder’: The Influence of the Relationship between Franz Rosenzweig and Margrit Rosenstock-Huessy on the Gritlianum and on The Star of Redemption II 2 (Sysling)

‎Chapter 15. Local Leadership in the Galilee: ʿAbd Allāh Salman Saleh Khayr (1906–1971) (van Klinken)

‎Part 3. Hebrew Texts in Jewish and Christian Surroundings

‎Chapter 16. Finding Pearls: Matthew 13:45–46 and Rabbinic Literature (Ottenheijm)

‎Chapter 17. ‘You Christians are being Led Astray!’ Some Notes on the Dialogue of Athanasius and Zacchaeus (van der Horst)

‎Chapter 18. ‘Stay Here with the Ass’: A Comparing Exegetical Study between Cyril’s Fifth Festal Letter and Rabbinic Exegesis in Babylonian Talmud and Genesis Rabbah 56:1–2 (Mock)

‎Chapter 19. The Voice of Community: Jewish and Christian Traditions Coping with an Absurd Commandment (Deut 21:18–21) (Mulder)

‎Chapter 20. Noachide Laws: A Viable Option as an Alternative for Full Conversion to Judaism? (Schoon)

‎Part 4. Hebrew Texts in Jewish, Christian and Muslim Surroundings

‎Chapter 21. A Queen of Many Colours (Misset-van de Weg)

‎Index of Sources