Reading the Bible in Islamic Context: Qur'anic Conversations

ISBN-13: 9780367410209 / Angielski / Miękka / 2019 / 338 str.

Daniel J. Crowther; Shirin Shafaie; Ida Glaser

Opis

With both Muslim and Christian contributors, the first part 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 part addresses Muslim readings of the Bible and biblical tradition and looks at how Muslims might regard the Bible.

Spis treści

Foreword, Martin Whittingham Synopsis, Danny Crowther  1. Biblical interpretation in Islamic context, Ida Glaser  Part 1: Intertextual Conversations 2. Abraham in narrative worldviews: reflections on doing comparative theology through Christian-Muslim dialogue in Turkey, George Bristow  3. Toward inter-theological hermeneutics: a case study in reading between the Joseph stories, Shirin Shafaie  4. The ‘sin’ of David in the light of Islamic thought, Ali Makhlabi and Larry Ciccarelli  5. David and the single ewe lamb: tracking conversation between two texts (2 Samuel 12:3 and Q38:23) when they are read in their canonical contexts, Carol Walker  6. Facing mirrors: the intertwined golden calf story, Mohammad Ghandehari and Mohsen Feyzbakhsh  Part 2: Questions about Texts 7. The fourth source: Isrā’iliyyāt and the use of the Bible in Muslim scholarship, Wan Mohd Fazrul Azdi Wan Razali, Ahmad Yunus Mohd Noor and Jaffary Awang  8. Constrained by scriptural polemics: Hamiduddin Farahi on the Akedah, Nazirudin Mohd Nasir  9. The culture shock of the Bible, Danny Crowther  10. Islamic tradition and the reception history of the Bible, Martin O’Kane and Talha Bhamji  11. The Morphology of the narrative exegesis of the Qur’an: The case of the cow of the Banū Isrāʾīl (Q2:67-74), Ali Aghaie   Part 3: Analogical Explorations  12. The place of purity in faith, Dwight Swanson  13. Biblical Ruth as a qur’anic Queen of Sheba: scriptural narratives of foreigner assent, Georgina Jardim  14. Reading Paul on idolatry (Romans 1:18-32) alongside the Qur’an: a theology of divine signs, Michael Lodahl  15. Indirection in biblical and qur’anic discourses, and in Bible translation in Islamic contexts, Andy Warren-Rothlin  16. The Gospel of John as a structure for Muslim-Christian understanding, Dan Madigan  17. Three methods for a Muslim reading of the Bible, Shabbir Akhtar