Made available in DSpace on 2016-07-27T13:49:00Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Claude Valentin Rene Detienne.pdf: 6137168 bytes, checksum: a08610a90e81c490c0dba1ec489d10e5 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2006-08-30The objective of the present dissertation was to compare a Jewish commentary (Midrash Rabbah) and two Syriac commentaries (Ephrem s commentary and an anonymous one) on the book of Exodus, especially on Ex 2,23-3,15. The study revealed some similarities that could be explained by a Jewish origin of some Syriac exegetical elements. But on the whole the Syriac commentaries are very different from the Jewish one. The Syriac exegetes, in the line of the Antiochene litteralist and historicist exegetical tradition, seldom show the same richne...