The art of interpreting Holy Scriptures flourished throughout the culturally heterogeneous pre-modern Orient among Jews, Christians and Muslims. Different ways of interpretation developed within each religion not without considering the others. How were the interactions and how productive were they for the further development of these traditions? Have there been blurred spaces of scholarly activity that transcended sectarian borders? What was the role played by mutual influences in profiling the own tradition against the others? These and other related questions are critically treated in the present volume.

• Table of Contents 6
• Exegetical Crossroads 10
• “A Wandering Aramean was My Father” 18
• Jesus, the Wondrous Infant, at the Exegetical Crossroads of Christian Late Antiquity and Early Islam 36
• The Letters of the East Syrian Patriarch Timothy I 56
• Scripture Interpreting the Church’s Story 70
• Use and Interpretation of Scriptural Proof-Texts in Christian–Muslim Apologetic Literature in Arabic 82
• “Min al-‘aql wa-laysa min al-kutub” 104
• The Lyre of Exegesis 128
• “Christ has subjected us to the harsh yoke of the Arabs” 154
• From Rabbinic Homilies to Geonic Doctrinal Exegesis 172
• “Hidden Transcripts” in Late Midrash Made Visible 208
• Theological Deadlocks in the Muslim-Christian Exegetical Discourse of the Medieval Orient 252
• Two Types of Inner-Qur’ānic Interpretation 262
• Moses, Son of Pharaoh 298