Interpreting Scriptures in Judaism, Christianity and Islam

Introduction: intersecting encounters with scriptures in three faiths Mordechai Z. Cohen; Part I. Scriptural Texts in Changing Contexts: 1. The emergence of biblical interpretation in antiquity James Kugel; 2. Disclosing the mystery: hermeneutics of typology in Syriac exegesis Sidney Griffith; 3. 'We have made it an Arabic Qur'an': the permissibility of translating scripture in Islam in contrast with Judaism and Christianity Meir Bar-Asher; 4. The unmoved mover begins to move: literary and artistic renderings of the Christian Bible Piero Boitani; 5. Deconstructing the dual Torah: a Jewish response to the Muslim model of scripture Meira Polliack; Part II. Conceptions of the Literal Sense: 6. The literal sense of Christian scripture: redefinition and revolution Jon Whitman; 7. Figuring the letter: making sense of 'sensus litteralis' in late-medieval Christian exegesis Alastair Minnis; 8. Conceptions of the literal sense (ẓāhir, ḥaqīqa) in Muslim interpretive thought Robert Gleave; 9. Emergence of the rule of peshat in Jewish Bible exegesis Mordechai Z. Cohen; Part III. Rhetoric and the Poetics of Reading: 10. Reading Virgil, reading David: poetry and commentary in the medieval school of Rheims A. B. Kraebel; 11. On the figurative (majāz) in Muslim interpretation and legal hermeneutics Wolfhart Heinrichs; 12. Words of eloquence: rhetoric and poetics in Jewish peshat exegesis in its Muslim and Christian contexts Mordechai Z. Cohen; 13. Classical rhetoric and scriptural interpretation in the Latin West Rita Copeland; 14. Robert Lowth's biblical poetics and Romantic theory Stephen Prickett; 15. From scripture to literature: modern ways of reading the Bible Adele Berlin.