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Author Lowin, Shari L.

Title The making of a forefather : Abraham in Islamic and Jewish exegetical narratives / by Shari Lowin
Published Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2006

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Description 1 online resource (xvi, 308 pages)
Series Islamic history and civilization. Studies and texts, 0929-2403 ; v. 65
Islamic history and civilization ; v. 65. 0929-2403
Contents TRANSLITERATIONS AND NOTATIONS -- ABBREVIATIONS -- ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS -- INTRODUCTION -- EXCURSUS: OVERVIEW OF SCHOLARSHIP ON MUSLIM-JEWISH INTERTEXTUALITY -- CHAPTER ONE: PROPHECY AND THE PRE-NATAL PATRIARCH -- CHAPTER TWO: INDEPENDENT INTELLECT OR "RIGHTLY GUIDED" : THE PATRIARCH DISCOVERS GOD -- APPENDIX -- BT Baba Batra 10a -- Pirqei de-Rabbi Eliezer, Chapter 26 -- The Kingdom of Heaven: Genesis 15:1-7, Qur'an 6:74-78 -- From "Azkir Gevurot" of Yose ben Yose (c. 4th-5th century CE) (lines 79-86) -- CHAPTER THREE: ON FINGER-FOOD, WET-NURSES, AND FATE -- APPENDIX BT Sotah 11b -- CHAPTER FOUR: THE FABULOUS FIRE-FIGHTING FROGS OF CHALDEA -- APPENDIX -- Qurʼan 21:51-71 -- BT Sanhedrin 74a -- Genesis Rabbah 38:13 -- CHAPTER FIVE: ABRAHAM, IBRAHIM, MOSES, AND MUHAMMAD -- APPENDICES -- APPENDIX A: CUANDO EL REY NIMROD -- APPENDIX B: ISLAMIC PRIMARY SOURCES -- APPENDIX C: MIDRASHIC PRIMARY SOURCES -- WORKS CITED -- INDEX
Summary This comparative analysis examines the Islamic and Jewish exegetical narratives ["hadith/isas 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
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 281-291) and index
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Subject Abraham (Biblical patriarch)
Abraham (Biblical patriarch) -- In rabbinical literature.
Abraham (Biblical patriarch) -- In the Qurʼan.
Abraham (Biblical patriarch)
Abraham Biblische Person
SUBJECT Koran gnd
Subject RELIGION -- Islam -- Theology.
Abraham (Biblical patriarch) in rabbinical literature
Abraham (Biblical patriarch) in the Qurʼan
Rabbinische Literatur
Islam.
Rabbijnse literatuur.
Exegese.
Form Electronic book
LC no. 2006045840
ISBN 9789047410102
9047410106
6611399712
9786611399719