Muslim Perceptions and Receptions of the Bible: Texts and Studies: 11 - Brossura

Adang, Camilla; Schmidtke, Sabine

 
9781948488204: Muslim Perceptions and Receptions of the Bible: Texts and Studies: 11

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The articles brought together in this volume deal with Muslim perceptions and uses of the Bible in its wider sense, including the Hebrew Bible or Old Testament as well as the New Testament, albeit with an emphasis on the former scripture. While Muslims consider the earlier revelations to the People of the Book to have been altered to some extent by the Jews and the Christians and abrogated by the Qurʾān, God's final dispensation to humankind, the Bible is at the same time venerated in view of its divine origin, and questioning this divine origin is tantamount to unbelief. Muslim scholars approached and used the Bible for a variety of purposes and in different ways. Thus Muslim historians regularly relied on biblical materials as their primary source for the pre-Islamic period when discussing the creation as well as the history of the Israelites and the prophets preceding Mu&;ammad. Authors seeking to polemicize against Jews and Christians were primarily interested in the presumed biblical annunciations of Mu&;ammad and his religion and / or in perceived contradictions and cases of internal abrogation in the Bible. These various concerns resulted from and had an impact on the ways in which Muslim authors accessed the scriptures.

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Camilla Adang is professor of Arabic and Islamic Studies at Tel Aviv University. Sabine Schmidtke is professor of Islamic intellectual history at the Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton.

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