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The Construction of Christian and Jewish Identities in Late Ancient Bible Interpretation

Agnethe Siquans, Agnethe Siquans, Thomas R. Karmann, Susanne Plietzsch, Hans-Ulrich Weidemann

• Publisher: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht
• Year: 2021
• Print ISBN:
  9783525522196
• eBook ISBN:
  9783647522197
• Edition: 1
• Topic: Theology & Religion
• Subtopic: Ancient History

Patristic and rabbinic biblical interpretations are significant contributions to the identity construction of late antique Christian and Jewish groups. The contributions in this conference volume illuminate the reception of biblical texts, themes and figures in patristic and rabbinic writings from the 2nd to the 8th century. They reveal processes of mutual demarcation, which are sometimes extremely polemical, sometimes only implicit and indirectly accessible. The correct interpretation of Scripture is claimed for one's own "we", while at the same time distinguishing it from the "others". Nevertheless, similarities and mutual positive references are clearly recognizable. Especially the often so polemical Christian interpretation is from the beginning rooted in the Jewish tradition and based on it. But also the rabbinic interpretation shows traces of the controversy with Christianity.

Table of contents

• Title Page
• Copyright
• Table of Contents
• Preface “Ancient Scriptural Interpretation” – Vorwort „Antike Schriftauslegung“
• Preface – Vorwort
• Agnethe Siquans (Vienna): The Construction of Christian and Jewish Identities in Late Ancient Bible Interpretation. Introduction
• Marc Hirshman (Hebrew University Jerusalem): The Development of Tannaitic Aggadic Midrash and Its Relationship to Christian Readings of the Bible 
• Harald Buchinger (Universität Regensburg): Exegese des Exodus und Konstruktion christlicher Identität bei Origenes
• Agnethe Siquans (University of Vienna): The Construction of Christian and Jewish Identities in Interpretations of Exodus 1 – 2
• Bas ter Haar Romeny (University of Amsterdam): Marking Boundaries in Antiochene Exegesis
• Predrag Bukovec (KU Linz): Auslegung in Abgrenzung. Antijüdische Bibelexegese bei Aphrahat dem Persischen Weisen
• Günter Stemberger (University of Vienna): Is (rabbinic) Judaism a Mosaic Religion? The Place of Moses in Israel’s Foundation Story
• Constanza Cordoni (University of Utrecht): Identity and Sense of Place in Rabbinic Literature. The Case of the Land of Israel 
• Elisabeth Birnbaum (Wien): Hieronymus und die Anderen. Rhetorik und Polemik im Koheletkommentar
• Anneliese Felber (Universität Graz): Maria – Figuration des „Gottesvolkes“? Überlegungen zur christlichen Identitätskonstruktion
• Gerhard Langer (Universität Wien): Mirjam in rabbinischen Midrasch-Texten. Eine Gegenfigur zu Maria?
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