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Benjamin A Edsall; Joseph Verheyden; Jens Schröter (eds.). Modes of scriptural interpretation in early Judaism and early Christianity. Berlin : De Gruyter, 2026.

Abstract

"The present contributions examine different modes of interpretation within early Jewish and Christian texts, ranging from rewriting to commentary. These interpretive approaches co-exist, operating side by side across the early period, rather than conforming to a developmental scheme. In the end, scriptural interpretation is illuminated as a capacious phenomenon, including material from sectarian Halakhah to Valentinian mythology to Rabbinic heresiological discourse." ---

Contents

Introduction: Prolegomena to modes of scriptural interpretation / Benjamin A. Edsall, Joseph Verheyden, Jens Schröter -- Forms, significance, and limits of exegesis in the halakhic texts from Qumran / Lutz Doering -- Philo of Alexandria, allegorical commentary, and the soul's road to virtue / Courtney J. P. Friesen -- ". . .written for our instruction" (Rom 15.4) : scriptural reasoning and cultural translation in Pauline letters / Kathy Ehrensperger -- Matthew's interpretation of scripture / Paul Foster -- Christianizing Jewish scriptures : Luke-Acts and the re-sacralization of "law and prophets" / Anthony Giambrone -- Failing to communicate : Isa 6:9-10 in the New Testament / Adele Reinhartz -- Tatian's Diatessaron between rewritten scripture and cento : on the origins of the gospel harmony genre / Matthew Crawford -- The Sophia myth of Irenaeus' Grande Notice (Haer. 1.1-9) as a poetic reflection on Jewish and Christian scripture / Johanna Brankaer -- Multiplicity and diversity in the interpretation of Jewish scriptures, according to the Valentinian Tractatus Tripartitus / Jean-Daniel Dubois -- The bat and the rooster : on Jewish-Christian literary interactions in the Babylonian Talmud / Michal Bar-Asher Siegal.