Table of Contents

Introduction: From Qumran to Qur'an: The Religious Worlds of Late Antiquity
Part I: Transformations of Religion in Late Antiquity
1: The End of Sacrifice
2: Patterns of Rationalization
Part II: The True Prophet
3: False Prophets of Early Christianity
4: False Prophet and False Messiah
5: Seal of the Prophets
Part III: Religious Communities and God's Law
6: Religious Dynamics between Jews and Christians
7: God's Rule in Late Antiquity
Part IV: The Way to Mecca
8: Jewish-Christians and Islamic Origins
9: Christian Memories and Dreams of Jerusalem
10: Barbarians or Heretics?
Envoi: Athens, Jerusalem, Mecca: praeparatio coranica

About the Author

Guy G. Stroumsa is Professor Emeritus of the Study of the Abrahamic Religions at the University of Oxford and Martin Buber Professor of Comparative Religion Emeritus at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. He obtained his PhD from Harvard in 1978. Professor Stroumsa received a Doctor Honoris Causa from the University of Zurich in 2004, an Alexander von Humboldt Research Award in 2008, and a Chevalier dans l'Ordre du Mérite in 2012. He is a member of the
Israel Academy of Sciences and Humanities.

Reviews

For those who need to be persuaded that Christianity, Judaism and Islam are helpfully grouped together and analysed as Abrahamic religions, Stroumsa provides a most compelling and subtle collection of evidence. This volume is highly recommended for those wanting to probe questions of method and content surrounding Islamic origins and the mutation of religiosity in Late Antiquity.
*Damian Howard, Islam and Christian-Muslim Relations*