Contents List of Figures xi i Hebrew Texts in Jewish, Christian and Muslim Surroundings 1 Klaas Spronk and Eveline van Staalduine-Sulman PART 1 Hebrew Texts inJewish Surroundings 2 Converted Demons: Fallen Angels Who Repented 9 Johannes C. de Moor 3 Jephthah and Saul: An Intertextual Reading of Judges 11:29-40 in Comparison with Rabbinic Exegesis 23 Klaas Spronk 4 Two Women, One God and the Reader: Theology in Four Recensions of Hannah's Song (1 Samuel 2:1-10) 36 Eveline van Staaldulne-Sulman 5 Between Hermeneutics and Rhetorics: The Parable of the Slave Who Buys a Rotten Fish in Exegetical and Homiletical Midrashim 50 Lieve Teugels 6 The Beauty of Sarah in Rabbinic Literature 65 TamarKadarl 7 David's Strengths and Weaknesses in the Targum of the Psalms 83 GeertW. Loreln 8 From 'Writtenness' to 'Spokenness': Martin Buber and His Forgotten Contemporaries on Colometry 104 EJ. Hoogewoud 9 Imitating Dutch Protestants: Jewish Educational Literature on the Biblical History from the 19th and the First Half of the 20th Century 115 CeesHoutman