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The Oxford Handbook of the Abrahamic Religions includes authoritative yet accessible studies on a wide variety of topics dealing comparatively with Judaism, Christianity, and Islam, as well as with the interactions between the adherents of these religions throughout history. The comparative study of the Abrahamic Religions has been undertaken for many centuries. More often than not, these studies reflected a polemical rather than an ecumenical approach to the topic. Since the nineteenth century, the comparative study of the Abrahamic Religions has not been pursued either intensively or systematically, and it is only recently that the comparative study of Judaism, Christianity, and Islam has received more serious attention. This volume contributes to the emergence and development of the comparative study of the Abrahamic religions, a discipline which is now in its formative stages.
This Handbook includes both critical and supportive perspectives on the very concept of the Abrahamic religions and discussions on the role of the figure of Abraham in these religions. It features 32 essays, by the foremost scholars in the field, on the historical interactions between Abrahamic communities; on Holy Scriptures and their interpretation; on conceptions of religious history; on various topics and strands of religious thought, such as monotheism and mysticism; on rituals of prayer, purity, and sainthood, on love in the three religions and on fundamentalism. The volume concludes with three epilogues written by three influential figures in the Christian, Jewish, and Muslim communities, to provide a broader perspective on the comparative study of the Abrahamic religions. This ground-breaking work introduces readers to the challenges and rewards of studying these three religions together.
Contents
Preface
List of Contributors
Part I: The Concept of the Abrahamic Religions
1: Reuven Firestone: Abraham and Authenticity
2: Adam Silverstein: Abrahamic Experiments in History
3: Guy G. Stroumsa: Three Rings or Three Impostors? The Comparative Approach to the Abrahamic Religions and its Origins
4: Mark Silk: The Abrahamic Religions as a Modern Concept
5: Rémi Brague: Philosophical Perspectives
6: Gil Anidjar: Yet Another Abraham
Part II: Communities
7: Richard Bulliet: Islamo-Christian Civilization
8: David Abulafia: The Abrahamic Religions in the Mediterranean
9: Uriel Simonsohn: Justice
10: John Tolan: Jews and Muslims in Christian Law and History
11: Dorothea Weltecke: Beyond Exclusivism in the Middle Ages: On the Three Rings, the Three Impostors, and the Discourse of Multiplicity
Part III: Scripture and Hermeneutics
12: Nicolai Sinai: Historical-Critical Readings of the Abrahamic Scriptures
13: Carol Bakhos: Interpreters of Scripture
14: David Powers: The Finality of Prophecy
15: Lutz Greisiger: Apocalypticism, Millenarianism, and Messianism
16: Yuri Stoyanov: Religious Dualism and the Abrahamic Religions
Part IV: Religious Thought
17: Peter E. Pormann: The Abrahamic Religions and the Classical Tradition
18: Sidney Griffith: Confessing Monotheism in Arabic (at-Tawḥīd): The One God of Abraham and His Apologists
19: Carlos Fraenkel: Philosophy and Theology
20: William E. Carroll: Science and Creation: The Mediaeval Heritage
21: Moshe Idel: Mysticism in the Abrahamic Religions
22: Anthony Black: Political Thought
Part V: Rituals and Ethics
23: Prayer: Clemens Leonhard and Martin Lüstraeten
24: Moshe Blidstein: Purity and Defilement
25: David Freidenreich: Dietary Law
26: Harvey E. Goldberg: Life-Cycle Rites of Passage
27: Yousef Meri: The Cult of Saints and Pilgrimage
28: David Nirenberg: Religions of Love: Judaism, Christianity, Islam
29: Malise Ruthven: Religion and Politics in the Age of Fundamentalisms
Part VI: Epilogues
30: Peter Ochs: Jewish and other Abrahamic Philosophic Arguments for Abrahamic Studies
31: David F. Ford: Christian Perspectives: Settings, Theology, Practices, and Challenges
32: Tariq Ramadan: Islamic Perspectives
