Geneses: a comparative study of the historiographies of the rise of Christianity, Rabbinic Judaism, and Islam

Cover; Half Title; Title Page; Copyright Page; Contents; Contributors; Introduction; PART I: Narratives of triumph and defeat; 1. The contours of Abrahamic identity: a Zoroastrian perspective; 2. The twilight of the ancient gods; 3. Simon the god: imagining the other in second-century Christianity;...

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Contributors: Tolan, John Victor 1959- (Editor)
Format: Electronic Book
Language:English
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Published: New York Routledge 2019
In:Year: 2019
Edition:First [edition].
Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains:B Judaism / Christianity / Islam / Rise of / Historiography
Further subjects:B Collection of essays
B LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Communication
B Islam ; Origin
B Ancient / General ; bisacsh / HISTORY
B Judaism ; Origin
B Abrahamic religions ; Historiography
B Islam Origin
B Ancient / Generals / HISTORY
B RELIGION / Reference ; bisacsh
B Essays ; bisacsh / RELIGION
B LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Communication ; bisacsh
B Abrahamic Religions Historiography
B Judaism Origin
B RELIGION / Essays
B Christianity ; Origin
B RELIGION / Reference
B RELIGION / Comparative Religion
B Christianity Origin
B RELIGION / Comparative Religion ; bisacsh
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Parallel Edition:Non-electronic
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Summary:Cover; Half Title; Title Page; Copyright Page; Contents; Contributors; Introduction; PART I: Narratives of triumph and defeat; 1. The contours of Abrahamic identity: a Zoroastrian perspective; 2. The twilight of the ancient gods; 3. Simon the god: imagining the other in second-century Christianity; 4. Contested ground in Gaza: the narrative of triumphalist Christianity; 5. Between Jerome and Augustine of Hippo: some intellectual preoccupations of Late Antiquity; PART II: Forging legal paradigms; 6. What is "Islamic" about geonic depictions of the Oral Torah?
ISBN:1351113313