These twelve learned essays are the result of the col­lab­o­ra­tion of schol­ars at the Uni­ver­si­ty of Pennsylvania’s Cen­ter for Advanced Juda­ic Stud­ies seek­ing to under­stand the cul­tur­al exchanges that take place in the his­to­ry of scrip­tur­al inter­pre­ta­tion (exe­ge­sis). They trace ancient and medieval exe­ge­sis by com­par­ing the con­texts of Jew­ish, Chris­t­ian, and Islam­ic scrip­tur­al inter­pre­ta­tions in order to under­stand the inter­pre­ta­tions that devel­op in each of them. Each essay relates its sub­ject to oth­er con­tem­po­rary tra­di­tions of inter­pre­ta­tion with­in the larg­er cul­tur­al con­text. The inter­ac­tion includes polem­i­cal devel­op­ments, but also appro­pri­a­tion of the tools and meth­ods of their rivals. Top­ics include late bib­li­cal and ear­ly post­bib­li­cal com­po­si­tions, rab­binic legal and homilet­i­cal inter­pre­ta­tions, Jerome and oth­er ear­ly Chris­t­ian exegetes, Islam­ic exe­ge­sis in both the Qur’an and ear­ly Mus­lim tra­di­tion, and bib­li­cal inter­pre­ta­tion in ear­ly mod­ern illus­tra­tions of bib­li­cal scenes. Indexes.