Introduction: Intersecting encounters with scriptures in three faiths / Mordechai Z. Cohen -- The emergence of biblical interpretation in antiquity / James L. Kugel -- Disclosing the mystery: the hermeneutics of typology in Syriac exegesis / Sidney H. Griffith -- "We have made it an Arabic Qur'an": the permissibility of translating scripture in Islam in contrast with Judaism and Christianity / Meir M. Bar-Asher -- The unmoved mover begins to move: literary and artistic renderings of the Christian Bible / Piero Boitani -- Deconstructing the dual Torah: a Jewish response to the Muslim model of scripture / Meira Polliack -- The literal sense of Christian scripture: redefinition and revolution / Jon Whitman -- Figuring the letter: making sense of Sensus litteralis in late-medieval Christian exegesis / Alastair J. Minnis -- Conceptions of the literal sense (ẓāhir, ḥaqiqa) in Muslim interpretive thought / Robert M. Gleave -- Emergence of the rule of peshat in medieval Jewish Biblical exegesis / Mordechai Z. Cohen -- Poetry and commentary in the medieval school of Rheims: reading Virgil, reading David / A. B. Kraebel -- On the figurative (majāz) in Muslim interpretation and legal hermeneutics / Wolfhart P. Heinrichs -- Words of eloquence: rhetoric and poetics in Jewish Bible exegesis in its Muslim and Christian contexts / Mordechai Z. Cohen -- Classical rhetoric and medieval scriptural interpretation in the Latin West / Rita Copeland -- Robert Lowth's biblical poetics and romantic theory / Stephen Prickett -- From Scripture to literature: modern ways of reading the Bible / Adele Berlin.