Oxford Studies in the Abrahamic Religions – serie
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The Making of the Abrahamic Religions in Late Antiquity
Häftad, 2017
620 kr
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This book presents how ancient Christianity must be understood from the viewpoint of the history of religions in late antiquity. The continuation of biblical prophecy runs like a thread from Jesus through Mani to Muhammad. And yet this thread, arguably the single most important characteristic of …
Goy
Israel's Multiple Others and the Birth of the Gentile
Häftad, 2020
502 kr
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Goy: Israel's Others and the Birth of the Gentile traces the development of the term and category of the goy from the Bible to rabbinic literature. Adi Ophir and Ishay Rosen-Zvi show that the category of the goy was born much later than scholars assume; in fact not before the first century CE. They …
Law Beyond Israel
From the Bible to the Qur'an
Inbunden, 2022
1611 kr
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The Hebrew Bible formulates two sets of law: one for the Israelites and one for the gentile “residents” living in the Holy Land. Law Beyond Israel: From the Bible to the Qur'an argues that these biblical laws for non-Israelites form the historical basis of qur'anic law. This volume corroborates its …
Female Power and Religious Change in the Medieval Near East
Inbunden, 2023
1540 kr
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Female Power and Religious Change in the Medieval Near East engages with two levels of scholarly discussion that are all too often dealt with separately in modern scholarship: the Islamization of the Near East and the place of women in pre-modern Near Eastern societies. It outlines how these two …
Goy
Israel's Multiple Others and the Birth of the Gentile
Inbunden, 2018
1754 kr
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Goy: Israel's Others and the Birth of the Gentile traces the development of the term and category of the goy from the Bible to rabbinic literature. Adi Ophir and Ishay Rosen-Zvi show that the category of the goy was born much later than scholars assume; in fact not before the first century CE. They …
Islam and its Past
Jahiliyya, Late Antiquity, and the Qur'an
Inbunden, 2017
1540 kr
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Islam and its Past: Jāhiliyya, Late Antiquity, and the Qur'an brings together scholars from various disciplines and fields to consider Islamic revelation, with particular focus on the Qur'an. The collection provides a wide-ranging survey of the development and current state of Qur'anic studies in …
Purity, Community, and Ritual in Early Christian Literature
Inbunden, 2017
2119 kr
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Purity, Community, and Ritual in Early Christian Literature investigates the meaning of purity, purification, defilement, and disgust for Christian writers, readers, and listeners from the first to third centuries. Anthropological and sociological works over the past decades have demonstrated how …
Veiling Esther, Unveiling Her Story
The Reception of a Biblical Book in Islamic Lands
Inbunden, 2018
1469 kr
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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 Golden Calf between Bible and Qur'an
Scripture, Polemic, and Exegesis from Late Antiquity to Islam
Inbunden, 2020
2253 kr
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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 …
Dreams and Divination from Byzantium to Baghdad, 400-1000 CE
Av Bronwen Neil
Inbunden, 2021
1828 kr
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Why did dreams matter to Jews, Byzantine Christians, and Muslims in the first millennium? Dreams and Divination from Byzantium to Baghdad, 400 - 1000 CE shows how the ability to interpret dreams universally attracted power and influence in the first millennium. In a time when prophetic dreams were …
Wisdom in the Qur'an
Law and Morality from the Bible to Late Antiquity
Inbunden, 2026
1490 kr
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This work is the first detailed study of what the Qur'an means by 'wisdom.' It argues that the Qur'an, when it uses the term, is engaging with biblical wisdom discourse as it had been interpreted and understood in late antiquity. Biblical wisdom texts are a category of books in the Hebrew Bible and …
Dynamics of Monotheism in Late Antiquity
Av Stroumsa
Inbunden, 2025
1205 kr
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From early Christianity to the emergence of Islam, the long late antiquity denotes a truly revolutionary period in the history of religions. In many ways, religious ritual patterns and theological worldviews were then radically transformed throughout the Near East and the Mediterranean. In …
History and Revelation in the Qur'an
The Second Coming of Scripture
Inbunden, 2027
1576 kr
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Scholars have often claimed that the Qur'an presents history as essentially static: a sequence of similar cycles of punishment featuring interchangeable prophets and identical revelations, with the Qur'an as the final instance. This study offers a fundamentally different account. In Goudarzi's …
