Jews and Syriac Christians : intersections across the first millennium / edited by Aaron Michael Butts and Simcha Gross.

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Syriac monastic motifs in the Babylonian Talmud : the ḥeruta story reconsidered (b. Qiddushin 81b) / Michal Bar-Asher Siegal -- Syriac anti-Judaism : polemic and internal critique / Adam H. Becker -- Bound and banned : Aphrahaṭ and excommunication in the Sasanian empire / Bar Belinitzky and Yakir Paz -- Jewish observance of the Sabbath in Bardaiṣin's Book of the laws of countries / Shaye J.D. Cohen -- Jewish Christians and the Qurʼān : the transit of religious lore in late antique Arabia / Sidney H. Griffith -- A long overdue farewell : the purported Jewish origins of Syriac Christianity / Simcha Gross -- Exilarch and catholicos : a paradigm for the commonalities of the Jewish and Christian experience under the Sasanians / Geoffrey Herman -- Contextualizing late antique rabbinic narratives / Richard Kalmin -- Syriac fathers on Jerusalem / Naomi Koltun-Fromm -- Staring down a laundress : reading hagiographic literature from Syria-Mesopotamia alongside rabbinic writings / Sergey Minov -- Versions and perversions of Genesis : Jacob of Edessa, Saadia Gaon, and the falsification of biblical history / Yonatan Moss -- Hebrew and Syriac liturgical poetry : a comparative outlook / Ophir Münz-Manor -- Syriac Christian sources and the Babylonian Talmud / Jeffery L. Rubenstein -- Judaeo-Syriac : Syriac texts in Jewish square script / Christian Stadel -- Anti-Jewish rhetoric and Christian identity in Aphrahaṭ's demonstrations / J. Edward Walters -- The anonymous Mēmrā on the Maccabees : Jewish pseudepigraphon or late antique festal poem? / Robin Darling Young.