- The Oxford Handbook of the Abrahamic Religions
- Dedication
- List of Contributors
- Introduction
- Abraham and Authenticity
- Yet Another Abraham
- Abrahamic Experiments in History
- Three Rings or Three Impostors? The Comparative Approach to the Abrahamic Religions and its Origins
- The Abrahamic Religions as a Modern Concept
- The Concept of the Abrahamic Religions, Problems and Pitfalls
- Islamo-Christian Civilization
- The Abrahamic Religions in the Mediterranean
- Justice
- Jews and Muslims in Christian Law and History
- Beyond Exclusivism in the Middle Ages: On the Three Rings, the Three Impostors, and the Discourse of Multiplicity
- Historical-Critical Readings of the Abrahamic Scriptures
- Interpreters of Scripture
- The Finality of Prophecy
- Apocalypticism, Millenarianism, and Messianism
- The Abrahamic Religions and the Classical Tradition
- Confessing Monotheism in Arabic (at-Tawḥīd): The One God of Abraham and his Apologists
- Philosophy and Theology
- Science and Creation: The Medieval Heritage
- Mysticism in the Abrahamic Religions
- Political Thought
- Religious Dualism and the Abrahamic Religions
- Prayer
- Purity and Defilement
- Dietary Law
- Life-Cycle Rites of Passage
- The Cult of Saints and Pilgrimage
- Religions of Love: Judaism, Christianity, Islam
- Religion and Politics in the Age of Fundamentalisms
- Jewish and Other Abrahamic Philosophic Arguments for Abrahamic Studies
- Christian Perspectives: Settings, Theology, Practices, and Challenges
- Islamic Perspectives
- Index
Abstract and Keywords
The modern concept of the Abrahamic religions has roots in Christian theology, the academic study of the Near East, and the study of Islam. In the nineteenth century, Protestant theologians built on the idea of the ‘Abrahamic covenant’ in developing the idea of a spiritual connection among Judaism, Christianity, and Islam. At the same time, students of the Near East understood the three religious traditions as sharing a common genealogical bond. Such recognition was enhanced by Islam’s own sense of the religion of Abraham, which was communicated to a broader public by western Islamicists. Although the concept of the Abrahamic religions does not preclude the privileging of one religion over the others, it has provided both scholars and laypeople with a useful way of exploring the common ground of the three faiths.
Keywords: Covenant, Judaeo-Christian, supersessionism, monotheism, dispensationalism, premillennialism, Joseph Pomeroy Widney, Louis Massignon
Mark Silk, Professor of Religion in Public Life and Director of the Leonard E. Greenberg Center for the Study of Religion in Public Life at Trinity College in Hartford, Connecticut
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- The Oxford Handbook of the Abrahamic Religions
- Dedication
- List of Contributors
- Introduction
- Abraham and Authenticity
- Yet Another Abraham
- Abrahamic Experiments in History
- Three Rings or Three Impostors? The Comparative Approach to the Abrahamic Religions and its Origins
- The Abrahamic Religions as a Modern Concept
- The Concept of the Abrahamic Religions, Problems and Pitfalls
- Islamo-Christian Civilization
- The Abrahamic Religions in the Mediterranean
- Justice
- Jews and Muslims in Christian Law and History
- Beyond Exclusivism in the Middle Ages: On the Three Rings, the Three Impostors, and the Discourse of Multiplicity
- Historical-Critical Readings of the Abrahamic Scriptures
- Interpreters of Scripture
- The Finality of Prophecy
- Apocalypticism, Millenarianism, and Messianism
- The Abrahamic Religions and the Classical Tradition
- Confessing Monotheism in Arabic (at-Tawḥīd): The One God of Abraham and his Apologists
- Philosophy and Theology
- Science and Creation: The Medieval Heritage
- Mysticism in the Abrahamic Religions
- Political Thought
- Religious Dualism and the Abrahamic Religions
- Prayer
- Purity and Defilement
- Dietary Law
- Life-Cycle Rites of Passage
- The Cult of Saints and Pilgrimage
- Religions of Love: Judaism, Christianity, Islam
- Religion and Politics in the Age of Fundamentalisms
- Jewish and Other Abrahamic Philosophic Arguments for Abrahamic Studies
- Christian Perspectives: Settings, Theology, Practices, and Challenges
- Islamic Perspectives
- Index