[the chapters] are all solid examples of careful literary-historical, philological scholarship. One might take issue with one or another point, but the collection represents an excellent contribution to the increasingly popular and important scholarship on biblical reception literatures, and one that ventures significantly into the important reception traditions of the Muslim world.
Adam J. Silverstein is Associate Professor of Middle Eastern History at Bar Ilan University. He held a British Academy post-doctoral fellowship at the University of Cambridge, before taking up lectureships in Near and Middle Eastern Studies at the University of Oxford, where he was also a Fellow of Queen's College. Subsequently, Professor Silverstein was Reader in Abrahamic Religions at King's College London. His publications include The Oxford Handbook of the
Abrahamic Religions (2015) and Islamic History: A Very Short Introduction (2010). He is also the series editor for The Oxford Studies in the Abrahamic Religions with Guy G. Stroumsa.