Contents -- List of Contributors -- List of Publications -- Preface -- PART ONE: THE BIBLE AS IT WAS -- The Conversion of Abraham to Judaism, Christianity, and Islam -- The Alleged "Hidden Light" -- Golden Calf Stories: The Relationship of Exodus 32 and Deuteronomy 9-10 -- Plumbing the Depths: Genre Ambiguity and Theological Creativity in the Interpretation of Psalm 130 -- [Hebrew omitted] and the Evaluation of Qohelet's Wisdom in Qoh 12:13 or "The 'A is so, and What's More, B' Theology of Ecclesiastes" -- The Symbolic Significance of Writing in Ancient Judaism -- PART TWO: TRADITIONS OF THE BIBLE IN SECOND TEMPLE JUDAISM -- Seven Mysteries of Knowledge: Qumran E/Sotericism Recovered -- The Contribution of the Qumran Discoveries to the History of Early Biblical Interpretation -- Myth, History, and Mystery in the Copper Scroll -- The Concept of Covenant in the Qumran Scrolls and Rabbinic Literature -- Open and Closed Eyes in the Animal Apocalypse (1 Enoch 85-90) -- Before the Fall: The Earliest Interpretations of Adam and Eve -- The Democratization of Kingship in Wisdom of Solomon -- PART THREE: THE INTERPRETIVE LIFE OF BIBLICAL TEXTS FROM EARLY JUDAISM TO THE PRESENT -- Two Powers in Heaven -- or, The Making of a Heresy -- Iterated Quotation Formulae in Talmudic Narrative and Exegesis -- Moses and the Commandments: Can Hermeneutics, History, and Rhetoric Be Disentangled? -- The Alphabet of Ben Sira and the Early History of Parody in Jewish Literature -- Does Rashi's Torah Commentary Respond to Christianity? A Comparison of Rashi with Rashbam and Bekhor Shor -- Rashi and Ibn Ezra on the Hitpael: Peshat in the Medieval Disputes of Hebrew Grammar -- Paradise Lost and Traditional Exegesis -- A Nazi New Testament Professor Reads His Bible: The Strange Case of Gerhard Kittel -- The Hermeneutical Significance of Emmanuel Levinas's Talmudic Readings.

Index of Sources -- Hebrew Bible -- Ancient Near Eastern Literature -- Second Temple Literature -- Targum -- Philo of Alexandria -- Flavius Josephus -- New Testament -- Greek and Latin Authors -- Early and Medieval Christian Literature -- Ancient and Medieval Rabbinic Literature -- Islamic Literature -- Renaissance Literature -- Modern Literature -- Index of Authors -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- X -- Y -- Z.