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Shared Stories, Rival Tellings - Early Encounters of Jews, Christians, and Muslims (Hardcover)
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Shared Stories, Rival Tellings - Early Encounters of Jews, Christians, and Muslims (Hardcover)
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While existing scholarship informs us about early contact between
Christians, Muslims, and Jews, the nature of that interaction, and
how it developed over time, is still often misunderstood. Robert
Gregg emphasizes that there was both mutual curiosity, since all
three religions had ancestral traditions and a commanding God in
common, and also wary competitiveness, as each group was compelled
to sharpen its identity against the other two. Faced with the
overlap of many scriptural stories, they were eager to defend the
claim that they alone were God's preferred people. In Shared
Stories, Rival Tellings, Gregg performs a comparative investigation
of how Jewish, Christian, and Muslim interpreters-both writers and
artists-developed their distinctive and exclusionary understandings
of narratives common to their three Holy Books: Cain and Abel, Sara
and Hagar, Joseph and Potiphar's Wife, Jonah and the Whale, and
Mary the Mother of Jesus. Exposed in the process are the major
issues under contention and the social-intellectual forces that
contributed to spirited, creative, and sometimes combative
exchanges between Muslims, Christians and Jews. In illuminating
these historical moments, and their implications for contemporary
relations between these three religions, Gregg argues that
scripture interpreters played an often underappreciated role in
each religion's individual development of thought, spirituality,
and worship, and in the three religions' debates with one
another-and the cultural results of those debates.
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