Table of Contents

List of illustrations
Acknowledgments
Preface

1. The Jewish matrix (1200 BCE-70CE)
2. Jews, gentiles, and Christians (200 BCE-200 CE)
3. Constructing Judaism and Christianity (70 CE-1054 CE)
4. Islam: religion, politics, and the state (600-1258)
5. Medieval interactions (700-1500)
6. Reform and Enlightenment (1500-1900)
7. Modern encounters (1900-2010)

Epilogue: Abrahamic Identities
References
Further Reading
Index

About the Author

Charles L. Cohen is E. Gordon Fox Professor of American Institutions, emeritus, at the University of Wisconsin, Madison. He served as the founding director of the university's Lubar Institute for the Study of the Abrahamic Religions. His scholarship has included work on Puritanism, Mormonism, and various aspects of interreligious relationships. He sits on the Religious Practices Advisory Committee, Department of Corrections, State of Wisconsin.