Exploring the lively polemics among Jews, Christians, and
Muslims during the Middle Ages, Hava Lazarus-Yafeh analyzes Muslim
critical attitudes toward the Bible, some of which share common
features with both pre-Islamic and early modern European Bible
criticism. Unlike Jews and Christians, Muslims did not accept the
text of the Bible as divine word, believing that it had been
tampered with or falsified. This belief, she maintains, led to a
critical approach to the Bible, which scrutinized its text as well
as its ways of transmission. In their approach Muslim authors drew
on pre-Islamic pagan, Gnostic, and other sectarian writings as well
as on Rabbinic and Christian sources. Elements of this criticism
may have later influenced Western thinkers and helped shape early
modern Bible scholarship. Nevertheless, Muslims also took the Bible
to predict the coming of Muhammad and the rise of Islam. They seem
to have used mainly oral Arabic translations of the Hebrew Bible
and recorded some lost Jewish interpretations. In tracing the
connections between pagan, Islamic, and modern Bible criticism,
Lazarus-Yafeh demonstrates the importance of Muslim mediation
between the ancient world and Europe in a hitherto unknown
field.
Originally published in 1992.
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