This volume contains the papers of the second meeting of the
international scholarly network "The Hermeneutic of Judaism,
Christianity and Islam," held in Aix-en-Provence (September 25-27,
2008). Drawing on Gérard Genette's theory of the five different types of
"transtextuality" (Palimpsestes, Paris 1982) - intertextuality,
paratextuality, metatextuality, hypertextuality, and architextuality - ,
the volume discusses the practices of metatextuality as diverse as
commentaries, hypomnemata, pesharim, targumim, Talmud,
allegoresis, glosses, scholia, catenae,
questions-and-responses (erotapocriseis), prophetic extracts,
hypotheses, homilies, integumenta and involucra, Keys to
Dreams, translations, and transliterations in the ancient Mediterranean
and Near Eastern cultures. Presented with an introduction designed to
expand and re-contextualize this issue, the eighteen communications
discuss common strategies of metatextuality in Greek and Jewish culture
as well as its various manifestations in the Septuagint and other Jewish
texts, in the literature of the Ancient Near East and Egypt, in the
Greco-Roman world, and in the late antique and medieval literature.