Bible and Qur'an

by Reeves, John C.

• ISBN13: 9781589830646
• ISBN10: 1589830644
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2003-11-01
• Publisher: Society of Biblical Literature

Summary

The Bible and the Qur'an share a common discourse based on stories and legends associated with certain paradigmatic characters like Noah, Abraham, and Moses. Yet most biblical scholars are unfamiliar with the rich contents of Islamicate scriptural lore. The nine essays in the present volume, all from scholars who center their research on the intersections of Jewish, Christian, and Islamic literary traditions, explore various aspects of the textual and behavioral connections discernible among these three major religious communities. The book will appeal to students and scholars of Bible and biblical lore, particularly in diverse exegetical contexts; Biblicists interested in the reception history of Bible within the Islamicate cultural sphere; specialists in ancient and medieval Jewish literary history and folklore; scholars of eastern Christian history and literature; Islamicists with an interest in the Jewish and/or Christian textual and exegetical elements visible in early and medieval Islam. "The Qur'an and the Bible: Some Modern Studies of Their Relationship

Table of Contents

Preface	vii
Abbreviations	xi
The Qur'ãn and the Bible: Some Modern Studies of Their Relationship
Reuven Firestone	1	(22)
A Prolegomenon to the Relation of the Qur'ãn and the Bible
Vernon K. Robbins and Gordon D. Newby	23	(20)
Some Explorations of the Intertwining of Bible and Qur'ãn
John C. Reeves	43	(18)
Israel and the Torah of Muhammad
Brannon M. Wheeler	61	(26)
On the Early Life of Abraham: Biblical and Qur'ãnic Intertextuality and the Anticipation of Muhammad
Brian M. Hauglid	87	(20)
The Prediction and Prefiguration of Muhammad
Jane Dammen McAulffe	107	(26)
The Gospel, the Qur'ãn, and the Presentation of Jesus in al-Ya'qúbi's Ta'rikh
Sidney H. Griffith	133	(28)
Abraham's Test: Islamic Male Circumcision As Anti/Ante-Covenantal Practice
Kathryn Kueny	161	(22)
Depaganizing Death: Aspects of Mourning in Rabbinic Judaism and Early Islam
Fred Astren	183	(18)
Bibliography	201	(18)
Index to Citations of Bible, Jewish and Christian Parascriptural Sources, and Qurãn	219	(18)
Index of Scriptural/Parascriptural Characters	237	(2)
Index of Postscriptural Traditional Commentators and Tradents	239	(2)
Index of Modern Authors	241