Inheriting Abraham

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Inheriting Abraham

The Legacy of the Patriarch in Judaism, Christianity, and Islam

Comparative religion History of religion Judaism Christianity Islam

Author: Jon D. Levenson

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Collection: Library of Jewish Ideas

Language: English

Published by: Princeton University Press

Published on: 30th September 2012

Format: LCP-protected ePub

Size: 882 Kb

ISBN: 9781400844616


How Judaism, Christianity, and Islam have reimagined Abraham in their own images

Jews, Christians, and Muslims supposedly share a common religious heritage in the patriarch Abraham, and the idea that he should serve only as a source of unity among the three traditions has become widespread in both scholarly and popular circles. But in Inheriting Abraham, Jon Levenson reveals how the increasingly conventional notion of the three equally "Abrahamic" religions derives from a dangerous misunderstanding of key biblical and Qur''anic texts, fails to do full justice to any of the traditions, and is often biased against Judaism in subtle and pernicious ways.

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