The Life of Theodore of Edessa was most likely composed in Greek in the eleventh-century and soon after translated to Arabic. It includes three major rewritings of biblical characters who are re-located in a ninth-century storyworld under Muslim dominion: Joseph and Potiphar's wife (cf Griffith 1994), Job and his wife, and what appears to be Elymas, the Jewish sorcerer in Acts 13. The first and the last rewritings incorporate inter-religious debates. I will suggest that the method used by the hagiographer may best be described as flannelgraphic: biblical characters are moved around on various geographical scens, where unexpected meetings and twists in the story take place and where biblical and contemporary themes and issues come into contact.