This volume is a rich and varied collection of studies by major experts in the field of Jewish biblical interpretation. In exemplary studies covering classical, medieval and modern uses of the Bible, the authors address the issues of Jewish attitudes to, and use of, the Bible through the centuries.

Dr. George Brooke has been at the University of Manchester since 1984, first as a lecturer in Intertestemental Literature, and since 1994, as Senior Lecturer. In 1997 he became Professor of Biblical Studies and in 1998 became the Rylands Professor of Biblical Criticism and Exegesis.

• Reading the Bible in the Classical Age


• 1: Bernard S. Jackson: The Original Oral Law


• 2: Nina L. Collins: Who Wanted a Translation of the Pentateuch in Greek?


• 3: Siam Bhayro: Daniel's 'Watchers' in Enochic Exegesis of Genesis 6:1-4


• 4: George J. Brooke: Reading the Plain Meaning of Scripture in the Dead Sea Scrolls


• 5: Niclas Förster: The Exegesis of Homer and Numerology as a Method for Interpreting the Bible in the Writing of Philo of Alexander


• 6: Alexander Samely: Delaying the Progress from Case to Case: Redundancy in the Halakhic Discourse of the Mishnah


• 7: Moshe J. Bernstein: The Aramaic Targumim: The Many Faces of the Jewish Biblical Experience


• Reading the Bible in the Mediaeval Age


• 8: Clive Fierstone: Is YHWH Yireh Jerusalem?


• 9: Philip S. Alexander: Why no Textual Criticism in Rabbinic Midrash? Reflection of the Textual Culture of the Rabbis


• 10: Brian L. Lancaster: The Psychology of Oppositional Thinking in Rabbinic Biblical Commentary


• 11: Raphael Loewe: The Structure of Hymnic Insertions in the Statutory Jewish Liturgy


• 12: Eva Frojmovic: Jewish Ways of Reading the Illuminated Bible


• Reading the Bible in the Modern Age


• 13: Heather A. McKay: 'Eshet Hayil or 'Ishshah Zarah: Jewish Readings of Abigail and Bathesheba, both Ancient and Modern


• 14: Moshe Ish-Horowicz: Theodicy, the Flood and the Holocaust


• 15: Harry Lesser: 'It is Difficult to Understand': Dealing with Morally Difficult Passages in the Hebrew Bible


• 16: Christine M. Pilkington: The Bible in Contemporary Jewish Sermons


• Indexes


• Index of Biblical References


• Index of Classical Sources


• Index of Modern Authors