{"product_id":"the-book-of-genesis-in-late-antiquity-encounters-between-jewish-and-christian-exegesis-9789004245525","title":"The Book of Genesis in Late Antiquity: Encounters Between Jewish and Christian Exegesis","description":"\u003cp\u003e • Author(s): Emmanouela Grypeou | Helen Spurling\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher: Brill\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher Imprint: Brill\u003cbr\u003e • BISAC: Christianity - General\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Book of Genesis in Late Antiquity: Encounters between Jewish and Christian Exegesis\u003c\/i\u003e examines the relationship between rabbinic and Christian exegetical writings of Late Antiquity in the Eastern Roman Empire and Mesopotamia.\u003cbr\u003e 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.\u003cbr\u003e 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.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e 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.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Brill","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":47890984042647,"sku":"9789004245525","price":21952.0,"currency_code":"INR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0666\/3471\/1191\/files\/9789004245525.webp?v=1781181927","url":"https:\/\/atlanticbooks.com\/products\/the-book-of-genesis-in-late-antiquity-encounters-between-jewish-and-christian-exegesis-9789004245525","provider":"Atlantic Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}