The Golden Calf Between Bible And Qur An

Author : Michael E. Pregill
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 514 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2020-06-12
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780198852421

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The Golden Calf Between Bible and Qur'an by Michael E. Pregill Pdf

This book explores the story of the Israelites' worship of the Golden Calf in its Jewish, Christian, and Muslim contexts, from ancient Israel to the emergence of Islam. It focuses in particular on the Qur'an's presentation of the narrative and its background in Jewish and Christian retellings of the episode from Late Antiquity. Across the centuries, the interpretation of the Calf episode underwent major changes reflecting the varying cultural, religious, and ideological contexts in which various communities used the story to legitimate their own tradition, challenge the claims of others, and delineate the boundaries between self and other. The book contributes to the ongoing reevaluation of the relationship between Bible and Qur'an, arguing for the necessity of understanding the Qur'an and Islamic interpretations of the history and narratives of ancient Israel as part of the broader biblical tradition. The Calf narrative in the Qur'an, central to the qur'anic conception of the legacy of Israel and the status of the Jews of its own time, reflects a profound engagement with the biblical account in Exodus, as well as being informed by exegetical and parascriptural traditions in circulation in the Qur'an's milieu in Late Antiquity. The book also addresses the issue of Western approaches to the Qur'an, arguing that the historical reliance of scholars and translators on classical Muslim exegesis of scripture has led to misleading conclusions about the meaning of qur'anic episodes.

Author : Eric F. Mason,Edmondo F. Lupieri
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 349 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2018-10-16
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9789004386860

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Golden Calf Traditions in Early Judaism, Christianity, and Islam by Eric F. Mason,Edmondo F. Lupieri Pdf

The seventeen studies in Golden Calf Traditions in Early Judaism, Christianity, and Islam explore the biblical origins of the golden calf story and its reception—whether explicit or implicit, negative or positive, or clearly and consciously avoided—in early Jewish, Christian, and Islamic literature.

Author : Daniel J Crowther,Shirin Shafaie,Ida Glaser,Shabbir Akhtar
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 367 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2017-11-08
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781351605045

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Reading the Bible in Islamic Context by Daniel J Crowther,Shirin Shafaie,Ida Glaser,Shabbir Akhtar Pdf

In the current political and social climate, there is increasing demand for a deeper understanding of Muslims, the Qur’an and Islam, as well as a keen demand among Muslim scholars to explore ways of engaging with Christians theologically, culturally, and socially. This book explores the ways in which an awareness of Islam and the Qur’an can change the way in which the Bible is read. The contributors come from both Muslim and Christian backgrounds, bring various levels of commitment to the Qur’an and the Bible as Scripture, and often have significantly different perspectives. The first section of the book contains chapters that compare the report of an event in the Bible with a report of the same event in the Qur’an. The second section addresses Muslim readings of the Bible and biblical tradition and looks at how Muslims might regard the Bible - Can they recognise it as Scripture? If so, what does that mean, and how does it relate to the Qur’an as Scripture? Similarly, how might Christian readers regard the Qur’an? The final section explores different analogies for understanding the Bible in relation to the Qur’an. The book concludes with a reflection upon the particular challenges that await Muslim scholars who seek to respond to Jewish and Christian understandings of the Jewish and Christian scriptures. A pioneering venture into intertextual reading, this book has important implications for relationships between Christians and Muslims. It will be of significant value to scholars of both Biblical and Qur’anic Studies, as well as any Muslim seeking to deepen their understanding of the Bible, and any Christian looking to transform the way in which they read the Bible.

Author : Timothy Ward
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 356 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 0199244383

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Word and Supplement by Timothy Ward Pdf

What are Christians saying when they call the Bible the Word of God? How is that statement to be understood in relation to postmodernity's suspicion of meaning? Word and Supplement tackles these questions by bringing the post-modern theory of Derrida (from whom the idea of "supplement" is borrowed), Barth, Fish, Gadamer, and many others into critical dialogue with the often-neglected doctrine of the sufficiency of Scripture.

Author : Kaltner, John,Frechette, Christopher G.
Publisher : Paulist Press
Page : 231 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2020
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781587687723

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How the Qur'an Interprets the Bible by Kaltner, John,Frechette, Christopher G. Pdf

The Bible and the Qur’an are arguably the most frequently cited and most misunderstood books in history. This book treats an important element of their commonality by exploring how the Qur’an offers new interpretations of some of the characters and stories it shares with the Bible.

Author : Adam J. Silverstein
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2018-10-25
Category : Bibles
ISBN : 9780192517746

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Veiling Esther, Unveiling Her Story by Adam J. Silverstein Pdf

Veiling Esther, Unveiling Her Story: The Reception of a Biblical Book in Islamic Lands examines the ways in which the Biblical Book of Esther was read, understood, and used in Muslim lands, from ancient to modern times. It focuses on case studies covering works from various periods and regions of the Muslim world, including the Qur'an, pre-modern historical chronicles and literary works, the writings of a nineteenth-century Shia feminist, a twentieth-century Iranian encyclopaedia, and others. These case studies demonstrate that Muslim sources contain valuable materials on Esther, which shed light both on the Esther story itself and on the Muslim peoples and cultures that received it. Adam J. Silverstein argues that Muslim sources preserve important pre-Islamic materials on Esther that have not survived elsewhere, some of which offer answers to ancient questions about Esther, such as the meaning of Haman's epithet in the Greek versions of the story, the reason why Mordecai refused to prostrate before Haman, and the literary context of the 'plot of the eunuchs' to kill the Persian king. Throughout the book, Silverstein shows how each author's cultural and religious background influenced his or her understanding and retelling of the Esther story. In particular, he highlights that Persian Muslims (and Jews) were often forced to reconcile or choose between the conflicting historical narratives provided by their religious and cultural heritages respectively.

Author : George Archer,Maria M. Dakake,Daniel A. Madigan
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 672 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2021-09-30
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781134635481

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The Routledge Companion to the Qur'an by George Archer,Maria M. Dakake,Daniel A. Madigan Pdf

The Routledge Companion to the Qur’an offers an impressive and comprehensive overview of the formative scripture of Islam. Including a wide number of scholarly approaches to the Qur’an by both established authorities and emergent voices, the 40 chapters in this volume represent the latest word on the academic understanding of the Muslim scripture. The Qur’an is spoken of in scholarship across disciplines; it is the beating heart of a living community of believers; it is a work of beauty and a basis for art and culture; it is a profoundly significant historical artifact; and it is a mysterious survivor from the Late Ancient Arabic-speaking world. This Handbook accompanies the reader into the many worlds that the Qur’an lives in, from its ancient settings, to its internal drama, and through the 1,400 years of discussion and debate about its meaning. Bringing diverse approaches to the Qur’an together in one volume The Routledge Companion to the Qur’an represents the vibrancy of the field of Qur’anic Studies today. This Handbook is essential reading for students and researchers in religious studies and Islamic studies. It will also be very useful for those in related fields, such as area studies, sociology, anthropology, and history.

Author : Elisha Russ-Fishbane
Publisher : Oxford Studies in the Abrahami
Page : 286 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2015
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780198728764

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Judaism, Sufism, and the Pietists of Medieval Egypt by Elisha Russ-Fishbane Pdf

Addresses the rise and inner life of the Egyptian pietist movement in the first half of the thirteenth century, calling attention to the Sufi subtext of Jewish pietism without reducing its spiritual synthesis and religious renewal to a set of political calculations.--

Author : James Bryant Reeves
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 297 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2020-07-09
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781108874816

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Godless Fictions in the Eighteenth Century by James Bryant Reeves Pdf

Although there were no self-avowed British atheists before the 1780s, authors including Jonathan Swift, Alexander Pope, Sarah Fielding, Phebe Gibbes, and William Cowper worried extensively about atheism's dystopian possibilities, and routinely represented atheists as being beyond the pale of human sympathy. Challenging traditional formulations of secularization that equate modernity with unbelief, Reeves reveals how reactions against atheism rather helped sustain various forms of religious belief throughout the Age of Enlightenment. He demonstrates that hostility to unbelief likewise produced various forms of religious ecumenicalism, with authors depicting non-Christian theists from around Britain's emerging empire as sympathetic allies in the fight against irreligion. Godless Fictions in the Eighteenth Century traces a literary history of atheism in eighteenth-century Britain for the first time, revealing a relationship between atheism and secularization far more fraught than has previously been supposed.

Author : Uri Rubin
Publisher : Darwin Press, Incorporated
Page : 344 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : History
ISBN : UOM:39015050262990

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Between Bible and Qurʼān by Uri Rubin Pdf

Author : Brannon M. Wheeler
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 236 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2013-01-11
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781136128905

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Moses in the Qur'an and Islamic Exegesis by Brannon M. Wheeler Pdf

Relating the Muslim understanding of Moses in the Qur'an to the Epic of Gilgamesh, Alexander Romances, Aramaic Targums, Rabbinic Bible exegesis, and folklore from the ancient and medieval Mediterranean, this book shows how Muslim scholars authorize and identify themselves through allusions to the Bible and Jewish tradition. Exegesis of Qur'an 18:60-82 shows how Muslim exegetes engage Biblical theology through interpretation of the ancient Israelites, their prophets, and their Torah. This Muslim use of a scripture shared with Jews and Christians suggests fresh perspectives for the history of religions, Biblical studies, cultural studies, and Jewish-Arabic studies.

Author : Christian Thrue Djurslev
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 356 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2019-12-12
Category : History
ISBN : 9781350120402

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Alexander the Great in the Early Christian Tradition by Christian Thrue Djurslev Pdf

What has Alexander the Great to do with Jesus Christ? Or the legendary king's conquest of the Persian Empire (335–23 BCE) to do with the prophecies of the Old Testament? In many ways, the early Christian writings on Alexander and his legacy provide a lens through which it is possible to view the shaping of the literature and thought of the early church in the Greek East and the Latin West. This book articulates that fascinating discourse for the first time by focusing on the early Christian use of Alexander. Delving into an impressively deep pool of patristic literature written between 130–313 CE, Christian Thrue Djurslev offers original interpretations of various important authors, from the learned lawyer Tertullian to the 'Christian Cicero' Lactantius, and from the apologist Tatian to the first church historian Eusebius. He demonstrates that the early Christian adaptations of the Alexandrian myths created a new tradition that has continued to develop and expand ever since. This innovative work of reception studies is important reading for all scholars of Alexander the Great and early church history.

Author : Youn Ho Chung
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2010-05-06
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780567212313

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The Sin of the Calf by Youn Ho Chung Pdf

The relationship of the biblical tradition to golden calf worship seems to be entirely negative. In the Torah and the Book of Kings, harsh criticism is wielded against the golden calf the Israelites made in the wilderness (Exod 32; Deut 9:7-10:11) and the calves erected by Jeroboam ben Nebat (1 Kgs 12:26-33) at Dan and Bethel during his reign over the Northern Kingdom of Israel. Hence, the question arises as to whether Jeroboam in truth set up the golden calves in order to buck the postulates of the Israelite religion of his time; that is, was Jeroboam's golden calf really meant to lure Israel into worship of other gods or idolatry? The research into the background and factors which motivated negative attitudes towards the Golden Calf will provide an insight as to when prohibition of images in the Israelite religion became crystallized and how it was indispensable in proclamation of the monotheism of YHWH.

Author : Israel Salanter
Publisher : Targum Press
Page : 616 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Religion
ISBN : STANFORD:36105118015721

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Ohr Yisrael by Israel Salanter Pdf

A glowing treasure now available to the English-speaking public! The trail-blazing work of Rav Yisrael Salanter, and his disciple, Rav Yitzchak Blazer illuminate the darkness of our generation with wisdom and insight. This classic Mussar work focuses on attaining closeness with G-d and on ethical introspection. This volume is a compendium of four classics of ethical thought: The Gates of Light, The Light of Israel, Paths of Light, and Stars of Light. This extraordinary book, translated into lucid, flowing English, will enable all who read it to reach a new spiritual dimension. Contains English text only.

Author : Oxford Society of Historical Theology
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 166 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2016-08-29
Category : History
ISBN : 1373954612

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NT IN THE APOSTOLIC FATHERS by Oxford Society of Historical Theology Pdf