Judaism, Christianity, and Islam, Vol. 2: The Word and the Law and the People of God - Softcover

Peters, Francis Edward

Softcover

ISBN 10: 069102054X ISBN 13: 9780691020549

Publisher: Princeton University Press, 1990

Synopsis

Invoking a concept as simple as it is brilliant, F. E. Peters has taken the basic texts of the three related--and competitive--religious systems we call Judaism, Christianity, and Islam and has juxtaposed them in a topical and parallel arrangement according to the issues that most concerned all these "children of Abraham." Through these extensive passages, and the author's skillful connective commentary, the three traditions are shown with their similarities sometimes startlingly underlined and their well-known differences now more profoundly exposed. What emerges from this unique and ambitious work is a panorama of belief, practice, and sensibility that will broaden our understanding of our religious and political roots in a past that is, by these communities' definition, still the present. The hardcover edition of the work is bound in one volume, and in the paperback version the identical material is broken down into three smaller but self-contained books. The second, "The Word and the Law and the People of God," discusses the scriptures of the three faiths in various contexts, exegetical and legal. Throughout the work we hear an amazing variety of voices, some familiar, some not, all of them central to the primary and secondary canons of their own tradition: alongside the Scriptural voice of God are the words of theologians, priests, visionaries, lawyers, rulers and the ruled. The work ends, as does the same author's now classic Children of Abraham, in what Peters calls the "classical period," that is, before the great movements of modernism and reform that were to transform Judaism, Christianity, and Islam.

About this title

From the Back Cover:

Taking the basic texts of the three related - and competitive - religious system we call Judaism, Christianity, and Islam, F.E. Peters has juxtaposed extensive passages from the texts, along with his own skillful connective commentary, in a topical and parallel arrangement according to the issues that most concerned all these 'children of Abraham.'

About the Author:

F. E. Peters is Professor of Near Eastern Languages and Literatures, History, Hebrew, and Judaic Studies at New York University.

About this edition

• Publisher: Princeton University Press
• Publication date: 1990
• ISBN 10: 069102054X
• ISBN 13: 9780691020549
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 2
• Number of pages: 424