The making of a forefather : Abraham in Islamic and Jewish exegetical narratives / by Shari Lowin.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Lowin, Shari L.

Series:

Islamic history and civilization ; 65.

Islamic history and civilization, 0929-2403 ; 65

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Abraham (Biblical patriarch).

Abraham.

Abraham (Biblical patriarch)--In rabbinical literature.

Abraham (Biblical patriarch)--In the Koran.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (327 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Boston : Brill, 2006.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

This comparative analysis examines the Islamic and Jewish exegetical narratives [ḥadīth/qiṣaṣ al-anbiyā' and midrash aggadah] on the early life of the forefather Abraham. It reveals how the traditions utilized one another's materials in creating and re-creating the patriarch in their own image. Each chapter examines a particular motif in Abraham's development, from the prophecy surrounding his birth to his discovery of God and polemics with pagans to his salvation in the fiery furnace of Chaldea. Indexes of the more salient rabbinic or Islamic texts follow at the end of each chapter. The work is particularly valuable for scholars of rabbinics and Islamicists alike; it challenges earlier scholarship by revealing that the Islamic and Jewish exegetical traditions were not entirely distinct traditions but were intertextually related, mutually giving and receiving ideas.

Contents:

Intro

CONTENTS

TRANSLITERATIONS AND NOTATIONS

ABBREVIATIONS

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

INTRODUCTION

EXCURSUS OVERVIEW OF SCHOLARSHIP ON MUSLIM-JEWISH INTERTEXTUALITY

CHAPTER ONE PROPHECY AND THE PRE-NATAL PATRIARCH

CHAPTER TWO INDEPENDENT INTELLECT OR 'RIGHTLY GUIDED': THE PATRIARCH DISCOVERS GOD

APPENDIX

BT Baba Batra 10a

Pirqei de-Rabbi Eliezer, Ch. 26

God Reveals the Kingdom of Heaven to His Beloved

From "Azkir Gevurot" of Yose ben Yose (c. 4th-5th century CE) (lines 79-86)

CHAPTER THREE ON FINGER-FOOD, WET-NURSES, AND FATE

APPENDIX BT Sotah 11b

CHAPTER FOUR THE FABULOUS FIRE-FIGHTING FROGS OF CHALDEA

Q 21:51-71

BT Sanhedrin 74a

Genesis Rabbah 38:13

CHAPTER FIVE ABRAHAM, IBRÀHÌM, MOSES, AND MUÓAMMAD

APPENDICES

APPENDIX A CUANDO EL REY NIMROD

APPENDIX B ISLAMIC PRIMARY SOURCES

APPENDIX C MIDRASHIC PRIMARY SOURCES

WORKS CITED

INDEX.

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Description based on print version record.

Includes bibliographical references (p. [281]-291) and index.

ISBN:

1-281-39971-X

9786611399719

90-474-1010-6

OCLC:

568171800

Publisher Number:

10.1163/9789047410102 DOI