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Medieval Exegesis and Religious Difference - Commentary, Conflict, and Community in the Premodern Mediterranean (Hardcover)
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Medieval Exegesis and Religious Difference - Commentary, Conflict, and Community in the Premodern Mediterranean (Hardcover)
Series: Bordering Religions: Concepts, Conflicts, and Conversations
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Jews, Christians, and Muslims all have a common belief in the
sanctity of a core holy scripture, and commentary on scripture
(exegesis) was at the heart of all three traditions in the Middle
Ages. At the same time, because it dealt with issues such as the
nature of the canon, the limits of acceptable interpretation, and
the meaning of salvation history from the perspective of faith,
exegesis was elaborated in the Middle Ages along the faultlines of
interconfessional disputation and polemical conflict. This
collection of thirteen essays by world-renowned scholars of
Judaism, Christianity, and Islam explores the nature of exegesis
during the High and especially the Late Middle Ages as a discourse
of cross-cultural and interreligious conflict, paying particular
attention to the commentaries of scholars in the western and
southern Mediterranean from Iberia and Italy to Morocco and Egypt.
Unlike other comparative studies of religion, this collection is
not a chronological history or an encyclopedic guide. Instead, it
presents essays in four conceptual clusters ("Writing on the
Borders of Islam," "Jewish-Christian Conflict," "The Intellectual
Activity of the Dominican Order," and "Gender") that explore
medieval exegesis as a vehicle for the expression of communal or
religious identity, one that reflects shared or competing notions
of sacred history and sacred text. This timely book will appeal to
scholars and lay readers alike and will be essential reading for
students of comparative religion, historians charting the history
of religious conflict in the medieval Mediterranean, and all those
interested in the intersection of Jewish, Christian, and Muslim
beliefs and practices.
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