Cover -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- Editorial Statement -- Preface -- Introduction -- Chapter 1 -- 'In the Beginning': Rabbinic and Patristic Exegesis of Genesis 1 -- Chapter 2 -- Adam Alone in Paradise. A Jewish-Christian Exegesis and Its Implications for the History of Asceticism -- Chapter 3 -- Will and Grace: Aspects of Judaising in Pelagianism in Light of Rabbinic and Patristic Exegesis of Genesis -- Chapter 4 -- The Christian and the Rabbinic Adam: Genesis Rabbah and Patristic Exegesis of Gen 3 -- Chapter 5 -- Critical Gnostic Interpretations of Genesis -- Chapter 6 -- 'Be You a Lyre For Me': Identity or Manipulation in Eden -- Chapter 7 -- What Did Cain Do Wrong? Jewish and Christian Exegesis of Genesis 4:36 -- Chapter 8 -- Creating Women's Voices: Sarah and Tamar in Some Syriac Narrative Poems -- Chapter 9 -- Genesis 15 in Rabbinic and Patristic Interpretation -- Chapter 10 -- 'And Abraham Had Faith': But In What? Ephrem and the Rabbis on Abraham and God's Blessings -- Chapter 11 -- Abraham's Angels: Jewish and Christian Exegesis of Genesis 1819 -- Chapter 12 -- Keeping it in the Family? Jacob and His Aramean Heritage according to Jewish and Christian Sources -- Chapter 13 -- Early Rabbinic Exegesis of Genesis 38 -- Chapter 14 -- Origen's View of 'Jewish Fables' in Genesis -- Abbreviations -- Index of Ancient Sources -- Index of Subjects