Invoking a concept as simple as it is brilliant, F. E. Peters
has taken the basic texts of the three related--and
competitive--religious systems we call Judaism, Christianity, and
Islam and has juxtaposed them in a topical and parallel arrangement
according to the issues that most concerned all these "children of
Abraham." Through these extensive passages, and the author's
skillful connective commentary, the three traditions are shown with
their similarities sometimes startlingly underlined and their
well-known differences now more profoundly exposed. What emerges
from this unique and ambitious work is a panorama of belief,
practice, and sensibility that will broaden our understanding of
our religious and political roots in a past that is, by these
communities' definition, still the present. The hardcover edition
of the work is bound in one volume, and in the paperback version
the identical material is broken down into three smaller but
self-contained books. The second, "The Word and the Law and the
People of God," discusses the scriptures of the three faiths in
various contexts, exegetical and legal. Throughout the work we hear
an amazing variety of voices, some familiar, some not, all of them
central to the primary and secondary canons of their own tradition:
alongside the Scriptural voice of God are the words of theologians,
priests, visionaries, lawyers, rulers and the ruled. The work ends,
as does the same author's now classic Children of Abraham, in what
Peters calls the "classical period," that is, before the great
movements of modernism and reform that were to transform Judaism,
Christianity, and Islam.
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