Judaism, Christianity, and Islam: The Classical Texts and Their Interpretation, Volume I
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Abu Bakr
Apostasy
Apostolic Tradition
Arabs
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Book of Deuteronomy
Books of Kings
Books of Samuel
Caliphate
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Christ
Christianity
Church history
Clergy
Crucifixion of Jesus
Davidic line
Deity
Elijah
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Fornication
Gentile
God
God of Abraham
Hebrews
Heresy
Ibn Ishaq
Ibn Khaldun
Idolatry
Irenaeus
Ishmaelites
Islam
Israelites
Jewish Christian
Jews
Judaism
Judea
Judea (Roman province)
Kaaba
Law of Moses
Levite
Maimonides
Martyr
Messiah in Judaism
Mishnah
Muslim
Nativity of Jesus
New Testament
Peace be upon him
Pharisees
Piety
Pope
Presbyter
Prophets and messengers in Islam
Quran
Quraysh
Rabbi
Religion
Religious community
Religious text
Righteousness
Rite
Second Temple
Sermon
Temple in Jerusalem
The Word of the Lord
Theology
Tithe
Torah
Umar
Will of God
Worship
Zechariah (priest)
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- ISBN 9780691020440
- Weight: 652g
- Dimensions: 152 x 235mm
- Publication Date: 21 Oct 1990
- Publisher: Princeton University Press
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Paperback
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Invoking a concept as simple as it is brilliant, F. E. Peters has taken the basic texts of the three related--and competitive--religious systems we call Judaism, Christianity, and Islam and has juxtaposed them in a topical and parallel arrangement according to the issues that most concerned all these "children of Abraham." Through these extensive passages, and the author's skillful connective commentary, the three traditions are shown with their similarities sometimes startlingly underlined and their well-known differences now more profoundly exposed. What emerges from this unique and ambitious work is a panorama of belief, practice, and sensibility that will broaden our understanding of our religious and political roots in a past that is, by these communities' definition, still the present. The hardcover edition of the work is bound in one volume, and in the paperback version the identical material is broken down into three smaller but self-contained books.
The first, "From Covenant to Community," includes texts and comments on the covenant and early history of the Chosen People and their post-Exilic reconstruction; the career and message of the Messiah Jesus and the Prophet Muhammad; the concept of holiness and of a "kingdom of priests"; and, finally, the notions of church and state and the state as a church. Throughout the work we hear an amazing variety of voices, some familiar, some not, all of them central to the primary and secondary canons of their own tradition: alongside the Scriptural voice of God are the words of theologians, priests, visionaries, lawyers, rulers and the ruled. The work ends, as does the same author's now classic Children of Abraham, in what Peters calls the "classical period," that is, before the great movements of modernism and reform that were to transform Judaism, Christianity, and Islam.
F. E. Peters is Professor of Near Eastern Languages and Literatures, History, Hebrew, and Judaic Studies at New York University.
