This volume is concerned with part of the Scholia-Commentary of Church of the East author Theodore bar Koni (fl. end of the 8th cent.), namely the patriarchal narratives in Genesis. A critical edition of the Syriac text is included with annotations, preceded by a thorough introduction dealing with the Berlin manuscript, previous scholarship on Theodore, details on his life, discussion of the commentary style (question-and-answer form rather than running commentary), sources (especially Theodore of Mopsuestia), Bar Koni’s exegetical method, and remarks on his Scholia from the point of view of language and lexicography.