Table of Contents

Preface
List of Contributors
Part I: The Concept of the Abrahamic Religions
1: Reuven Firestone: Abraham and Authenticity
2: Adam Silverstein: Abrahamic Experiments in History
3: Guy G. Stroumsa: Three Rings or Three Impostors? The Comparative Approach to the Abrahamic Religions and its Origins
4: Mark Silk: The Abrahamic Religions as a Modern Concept
5: Rémi Brague: Philosophical Perspectives
6: Gil Anidjar: Yet Another Abraham
Part II: Communities
7: Richard Bulliet: Islamo-Christian Civilization
8: David Abulafia: The Abrahamic Religions in the Mediterranean
9: Uriel Simonsohn: Justice
10: John Tolan: Jews and Muslims in Christian Law and History
11: Dorothea Weltecke: Beyond Exclusivism in the Middle Ages: On the Three Rings, the Three Impostors, and the Discourse of Multiplicity
Part III: Scripture and Hermeneutics
12: Nicolai Sinai: Historical-Critical Readings of the Abrahamic Scriptures
13: Carol Bakhos: Interpreters of Scripture
14: David Powers: The Finality of Prophecy
15: Lutz Greisiger: Apocalypticism, Millenarianism, and Messianism
16: Yuri Stoyanov: Religious Dualism and the Abrahamic Religions
Part IV: Religious Thought
17: Peter E. Pormann: The Abrahamic Religions and the Classical Tradition
18: Sidney Griffith: Confessing Monotheism in Arabic (at-Taw.h=Id): The One God of Abraham and His Apologists
19: Carlos Fraenkel: Philosophy and Theology
20: William E. Carroll: Science and Creation: The Mediaeval Heritage
21: Moshe Idel: Mysticism in the Abrahamic Religions
22: Anthony Black: Political Thought
Part V: Rituals and Ethics
23: Prayer: Clemens Leonhard and Martin Lstraeten
24: Moshe Blidstein: Purity and Defilement
25: David Freidenreich: Dietary Law
26: Harvey E. Goldberg: Life-Cycle Rites of Passage
27: Yousef Meri: The Cult of Saints and Pilgrimage
28: David Nirenberg: Religions of Love: Judaism, Christianity, Islam
29: Malise Ruthven: Religion and Politics in the Age of Fundamentalisms
Part VI: Epilogues
30: Peter Ochs: Jewish and other Abrahamic Philosophic Arguments for Abrahamic Studies
31: David F. Ford: Christian Perspectives: Settings, Theology, Practices, and Challenges
32: Tariq Ramadan: Islamic Perspectives

About the Author

Adam J. Silverstein, Associate Professor of Middle Eastern Studies, Bar Ilan University, Guy G. Stroumsa, Martin Buber Professor Emeritus of Comparative Religion, Hebrew University of Jerusalem and Professor Emeritus of the Study of the Abrahamic Religions, University of Oxford, Moshe Blidstein, Fellow, The Martin Buber Society of Fellows in the Humanities, Hebrew University, Jerusalem

Adam J. Silverstein is Professor of Middle Eastern Studies at Bar-Ilan University, Israel. His research interests include the history of the Middle East from late Antiquity to the Middle Ages, especially the relationships between Abrahamic Religions. His publications include Postal Systems in the Pre-Modern Islamic World (2010) and slamic History: A Very Short Introduction (2010).

Guy G. Stroumsa is Professor Emeritus of the Study of the Abrahamic Religions at 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 Merite in 2012. He is a member of the Israel Academy of Sciences and Humanities. He is the author of The Making of the Abrahamic Religions in Late Antiquity (2015).

Moshe Blidstein is Postdoctoral fellow at the Martin Buber Society of Fellows at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. He is the author of Purity, Community, and Ritual in Early Christian Literature (2017).

Reviews

Those interested in interfaith movements and the relationship between Islam, Christianity, and Judaism will find much to benefit in reading The Oxford Handbook of The Abrahamic Religions
*Jamin Hübner, Reading Religion*

The Handbook is a useful tool for students and scholars alike that gives a comprehensive insight into the current state of research as well as the desiderata in the field of Abrahamic studies.
*Dennis Halft, Trier University, Medieval Encounters*

a valuable resource for any library whose readers wish to engage in serious study of the relationship between the three faiths.
*Tom Wilson, Anvil*