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Other Authors: Silverstein, Adam J. (Editor), Stroumsa, Guy G. (Editor), Blidstein, Moshe, 1982- (Editor)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Oxford, United Kingdom ; New York, NY : Oxford University Press, 2015.
Edition:First edition.
Series:Oxford handbooks.
Subjects:
Abrahamic religions.
Table of Contents:
  • Part I. The concept of the Abrahamic religions. Abraham and authenticity / Reuven Firestone
  • Yet another Abraham / Gil Anidjar
  • Abrahamic experiments in history / Adam J. Silverstein
  • Three rings or three impostors? The comparative approach to the Abrahamic religions and its origins / Guy G. Stroumsa
  • The Abrahamic religions as a modern concept / Mark Silk
  • The concept of the Abrahamic religions, problems and pitfalls / Rémi Brague
  • Part II. Communities. Islamo-Christian civilization / Richard W. Bulliet
  • The Abrahamic religions in the Mediterranean / David Abulafia
  • Justice / Uriel Simonsohn
  • Jews and Muslims in Christian law and history / John Tolan
  • Beyond exclusivism in the Middle Ages: on the three rings, the three impostors, and the discourse of multiplicity / Dorothea Weltecke
  • part III. Scripture and hermeneutics. Historical-critical readings of the Abrahamic scriptures / Nicolai Sinai
  • Interpreters of scripture / Carol Bakhos
  • The finality of prophecy / David S. Powers
  • Apocalypticism, millenarianism, and messianism / Lutz Greisiger
  • part IV. Religious thought. The Abrahamic religions and the classical tradition / Peter E. Pormann
  • Confessing monotheism in Arabic (at-Tawḥīd): the one God of Abraham and his apologists / Sidney H. Griffith
  • Philosophy and theology / Carlos Fraenkel
  • Science and creation: the medieval heritage / William E. Carroll
  • Mysticism in the Abrahamic religions / Moshe Idel
  • Political thought / Antony Black
  • Religious dualism and the Abrahamic religions / Yuri Stoyanov
  • part V. Rituals and ethics. Prayer / Clemens Leonhard and Martin Lüstraeten
  • Purity and defilement / Moshe Blidstein
  • Dietary law / David M. Freidenreich
  • Life-cycle rites of passage / Harvey E. Goldberg
  • The cult of saints and pilgrimage / Yousef Meri
  • Religions of love: Judaism, Christianity, Islam / David Nirenberg and Leonardo Capezzone
  • Religion and politics in the age of fundamentalisms / Malise Ruthven
  • part VI. Epilogues. Jewish and other Abrahamic philosophic arguments for Abrahamic studies / Peter Ochs
  • Christian perspectives: settings, theology, practices, and challenges / David F. Ford
  • Islamic perspectives / Tariq Ramadan.