The Oxford handbook of the Abrahamic religions /edited by Adam J. Silverstein and Guy G. Stroumsa ; associate editor, Moshe Blidstein.
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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 /R{acute}emi 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-Taw{dotb}h{macr}id): 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 L{uml}ustraeten --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.
xvii, 617 pages ;26 cm.