Exegetical Crossroads

Understanding Scripture in Judaism, Christianity and Islam in the Pre-Modern Orient

Georges Tamer, Regina Grundmann, Assaad Elias Kattan, Karl Pinggéra

• Publisher: De Gruyter
• Year: 2017
• eBook ISBN: 9783110562934
• Edition: 1
• Topic: Theology & Religion
• Subtopic: European Medieval History

The art of interpreting Holy Scriptures flourished throughout the culturally heterogeneous pre-modern Orient among Jews, Christians and Muslims. Different ways of interpretation developed within each religion not without considering the others. How were the interactions and how productive were they for the further development of these traditions? Have there been blurred spaces of scholarly activity that transcended sectarian borders? What was the role played by mutual influences in profiling the own tradition against the others? These and other related questions are critically treated in the present volume.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Title Page
• Copyright
• Table of Contents
• Exegetical Crossroads
• “A Wandering Aramean was My Father”
• Jesus, the Wondrous Infant, at the Exegetical Crossroads of Christian Late Antiquity and Early Islam
• The Letters of the East Syrian Patriarch Timothy I
• Scripture Interpreting the Church’s Story
• Use and Interpretation of Scriptural Proof-Texts in Christian–Muslim Apologetic Literature in Arabic
• “Min al-‘aql wa-laysa min al-kutub”
• The Lyre of Exegesis
• “Christ has subjected us to the harsh yoke of the Arabs”
• From Rabbinic Homilies to Geonic Doctrinal Exegesis
• “Hidden Transcripts” in Late Midrash Made Visible
• Theological Deadlocks in the Muslim-Christian Exegetical Discourse of the Medieval Orient
• Two Types of Inner-Qur’ānic Interpretation
• Moses, Son of Pharaoh
• Unity and Coherence in the Qur’ān
• Qur’ānic Exegesis as an Exclusive Art – Diving for the Starting Point of Ṣūfī Tafsīr
• Ibn Kammūna’s Knowledge of, and Attitude toward, the Qur’ān
• Bibliography
• Authors
• The Editors
• Index