The contributions illuminate the reception of biblical texts themes and figures in patristic
and rabbinic writings from the 2nd to the 8th century. They reveal processes of mutual
demarcation which are sometimes extremely polemical sometimes only implicit and indirectly
accessible. The correct interpretation of Scripture is claimed for one's own we while at the
same time distinguishing it from the others. Nevertheless similarities and mutual positive
references are clearly recognizable. Especially the often so polemical Christian interpretation
is from the beginning rooted in the Jewish tradition and based on it. But also the rabbinic
interpretation shows traces of the controversy with Christianity.In Christian and Jewish Bible
interpretation in late antiquity polemics and demarcation are evident as are similarities and
mutual references.
