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Shared Stories, Rival Tellings
Robert C. Gregg
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Description for Shared Stories, Rival Tellings
In Shared Stories, Rival Tellings, Robert Gregg performs a comparative investigation of how Jewish, Christian, and Muslim interpreters developed their distinctive and exclusionary understandings of narratives common to their three Holy Books Num Pages: 752 pages, 56 illustrations. BIC Classification: HRAF; HRC; HRH; HRJ. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 168 x 245 x 42. Weight in Grams: 1436.
While existing scholarship informs us about early contact between Christians, Muslims, and Jews, the nature of that interaction, and how it developed over time, is still often misunderstood. Robert Gregg emphasizes that there was both mutual curiosity, since all three religions had ancestral traditions and a commanding God in common, and also wary competitiveness, as each group was compelled to sharpen its identity against the other two. Faced with the overlap of many scriptural stories, they were eager to defend the claim that they alone were God's preferred people. In Shared Stories, Rival Tellings, Gregg performs a comparative ... Read more
While existing scholarship informs us about early contact between Christians, Muslims, and Jews, the nature of that interaction, and how it developed over time, is still often misunderstood. Robert Gregg emphasizes that there was both mutual curiosity, since all three religions had ancestral traditions and a commanding God in common, and also wary competitiveness, as each group was compelled to sharpen its identity against the other two. Faced with the overlap of many scriptural stories, they were eager to defend the claim that they alone were God's preferred people. In Shared Stories, Rival Tellings, Gregg performs a comparative ... Read more
Product Details
Publication date
2015
Publisher
Oxford University Press Inc United States
Number of pages
752
Condition
New
Number of Pages
752
Format
Hardback
Place of Publication
New York, United States
ISBN
9780190231491
SKU
V9780190231491
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About Robert C. Gregg
Robert C. Gregg is Professor in Religious Studies, Emeritus, at Stanford University.
Reviews for Shared Stories, Rival Tellings
Robert Gregg's Shared Stories is a rich comparative study of diverse Jewish, Christian, and Muslim portrayals of important characters in the three religions' scriptures...It provides an excellent introduction to the subject for students or for scholars (in particular those who may be familiar with the exegetical traditions of one of the three monotheistic religions).
John Tolan, Université de Nantes, ... Read more
John Tolan, Université de Nantes, ... Read more