Judaism, Christianity, and Islam: The Classical Texts and Their Interpretation, Volume III
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Al-Masih ad-Dajjal
Apophatic theology
Ark of the Covenant
Asceticism
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Book of Exodus
Book of Ezekiel
Book of Leviticus
Book of Revelation
Books of Kings
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Christian monasticism
Christian mortalism
Christian mysticism
Christian theology
Christianity
Christianity and Judaism
Church Fathers
Conservative Judaism
Deuterocanonical books
Ecumenical council
Elijah
Elisha ben Abuyah
Epistle to the Hebrews
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Eternal life (Christianity)
Eucharist
Ezekiel
God
Holy of Holies
Holy Spirit (Christianity)
Ibn Khaldun
Ibrahim ibn Adham
Imamah (Shia doctrine)
Incarnation (Christianity)
Islam
Israelites
Jesus Prayer
Jewish Christian
Jewish mysticism
John Chrysostom
John the Baptist
Judaism
Judeo-Christian
Justification (theology)
Kabbalah
Maimonides
Mansur Al-Hallaj
Meccan Revelations
Melchizedek
Messiah
Mishneh Torah
Muslim
Names of God in Islam
New Testament apocrypha
Old Testament
Origins of Christianity
Patriarchs (Bible)
Philosophy
Prophets and messengers in Islam
Quran
Religion
Religious law
Religious text
Rule of Faith
Shia Islam
Sin offering
State church of the Roman Empire
Sufism
The Sufis
Theodicy
Theology
Worship
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- ISBN 9780691020556
- Weight: 652g
- Dimensions: 152 x 235mm
- Publication Date: 15 Aug 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 third, "The Works of the Spirit," focuses on spirituality and worship and contains material on monasticism, theology, mysticism, and the "End Time."
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.
