Overview
This comparative analysis examines the Islamic and Jewish exegetical narratives [hadith/qisas al-anbiya' and midrash aggadah] on the early life of the forefather Abraham. It reveals how the traditions utilized one another's materials in creating and re-creating the patriarch in their own image. Each chapter examines a particular motif in Abraham's development, from the prophecy surrounding his birth to his discovery of God and polemics with pagans to his salvation in the fiery furnace of Chaldea. Indexes of the more salient rabbinic or Islamic texts follow at the end of each chapter. The work is particularly valuable for scholars of rabbinics and Islamicists alike; it challenges earlier scholarship by revealing that the Islamic and Jewish exegetical traditions were not entirely distinct traditions but were intertextually related, mutually giving and receiving ideas.
Full Product Details
Author: Shari Lowin
Publisher: Brill
Imprint: Brill
Volume: 65
Dimensions:
Width: 16.70cm
, Height: 2.50cm
, Length: 24.20cm
Weight: 0.711kg
ISBN: 9789004152267
ISBN 10: 9004152261
Pages: 312
Publication Date: 05 October 2006
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Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active
Availability: In Print
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Reviews
This is a valuable book, and not only because of its careful and cogent reading. Lowin also discussed traditional and current theories of intertextuality in her introduction. Reuven Firestone in Journal of Jewish Studies 60.1 (2009). ...ein gelungenes Werk, das sowohl dem Spezialisten wie auch dem Laien empfohlen sei. Alphons Teipen in Sehepunkte 9.7-8 (2009). ...une source desormais incontournable de l'etude de la prophetologie en islam. Pierre Lory in BCAI 23 (2009). The essay is very important especially for the chronological reconstruction of the mutual borrowings and the accurate analysis of how certain motifs travelled from Judaism to Islam and then back [...]. Rosanna Budelli in Islamochristiana 38 (2012).
'...this book is a most fascinating demonstration of the lively existence of a popular private cult alongside the official civic worship of gods and Emperor.' Edgar C. Polome, Journal of Indo-European Studies, 1995. 'Le livre de Peter F. Dorcey se caracterise par son erudition et une collecte quasi exhaustive des documents antiques concernant le dieu Silvanus ...Qui desire faire desormais une recherche sur Silvanus ne peut se passer de cette reference ...l'ouvrage de Peter F. Dorcy reste [...] un instrument de travail incomparable.' Daniel Toulec, L'Antiquite, 1995.
Author Information
Shari L. Lowin, Ph.D. (2002) in Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations, University of Chicago, is Assistant Professor of Religious Studies at Stonehill College. She researches and publishes on topics relating to intertextual Islamic-Jewish studies, focusing mainly on classical exegesis.
