Crisis, Call, and Leadership in the Abrahamic Traditions
Over three years of study and fellowship, sixteen Muslim, Jewish, and Christian scholars sought to answer one question: “Do our three scriptures unite or divide us?” They offer their answers in this book: sixteen essays on how certain ways of reading scripture may draw us apart and other ways may draw us, together, into the source that each tradition calls peace. Reading scriptural sources in the classical and medieval traditions, the authors examine how each tradition addresses the “other”...
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Over three years of study and fellowship, sixteen Muslim, Jewish, and Christian scholars sought to answer one question: “Do our three scriptures unite or divide us?” They offer their answers in this book: sixteen essays on how certain ways of reading scripture may draw us apart and other ways may draw us, together, into the source that each tradition calls peace. Reading scriptural sources in the classical and medieval traditions, the authors examine how each tradition addresses the “other” within its tradition and without, how all three traditions attend to poverty as a societal and spiritual condition, and what it means to read scripture while facing the challenges of modernity. Ochs and Johnson have assembled a unique approach to inter-religious scholarship and a rare look at scriptural study as a pathway to peace.
1 Introduction: Crisis and the Call to Leadership in the Abrahamic Traditions William Stacy Johnson Peter Ochs 1Part I Communal Identity and the Other Introduction: The Other Within and the Other Without William Stacy Johnson 112 The Sign of Jonah: A Christian Perspective on the Relation of the Abrahamic Faiths R. Kendall Soulen 153 Hagar and Esau: From Others to Sisters and Brothers Steven Kepnes 314 Qur'an and the Image of the "Other": The Good, the Bad, the Ugly Mekdi Aminrazavi 475 "These Are the Generations": Reasoning with Rabbi Samuel ben Meier Michael A. Signer 596 Three Voices, One Response: Here I Am: A Reformed Christian Perspective on Abraham's Dilemma William Stacy Johnson 71Part II Spirituality and Social Responsibility: Poverty and Charity Introduction: The Cry of the Poor Kevin L. Hughes 897 The Poor Are Always with You Kevin L. Hughes 938 Hearing the Cry of the Poor Aryeh Cohen 1099 The Tests of Poverty: Qur'anic Perspectives Timothy J. Gianotti 12310 In the Bosom of Abraham: Saint Bonaventure, Lazarus, and the Houses of Hospitality Ann W. Astell 13911 Charity and the Good Life: On Islamic Prophetic Ethics Mohammad Azadpur 15312 Laive, loue, and lewete: The Kenotic Vision of Traditional Christian Political Theology R.R. Reno 169Part III Abrahamic Traditions and Modernity Introduction: The Scriptural Traditions and Modernity: The Unhappy Relations between Traditions and Modern Historical Consciousness Maria Massi Dakake 18713 Human Contention and Divine Argument: Faith and Truth in the Qur'anic Story of Abraham Maria Massi Dakake 19114 Abraham in the Image ofJob: A Model for Postcritical Readings of Scripture Elizabeth Shanks Alexander 20915 Moses and the Mountain of Knowledge Robert IV. Jenson 22316 Moses in the Sea: Reading Scripture as Liturgical Performance Peter Ochs 23117 Transfigured Exegesis C. Clifton Black 243Contributors 259Index of Scriptural Sources and Commentaries 263Index of Modern Authors 271Subject Index 273
