Jews, Christians, and Muslims all have a standard trust within the sanctity of a center holy scripture, and statement on scripture (exegesis) used to be on the center of all 3 traditions within the center a while. even as, since it handled matters similar to the character of the canon, the bounds of applicable interpretation, and the that means of salvation historical past from the viewpoint of religion, exegesis used to be elaborated within the center a while alongside the faultlines of interconfessional disputation and polemical clash. This number of 13 essays by way of world-renowned students of Judaism, Christianity, and Islam explores the character of exegesis in the course of the excessive and particularly the past due center a while as a discourse of cross-cultural and interreligious clash, paying specific consciousness to the commentaries of students within the western and southern Mediterranean from Iberia and Italy to Morocco and Egypt.
Unlike different comparative stories of faith, this assortment isn't a chronological heritage or an encyclopedic consultant. in its place, it provides essays in 4 conceptual clusters ("Writing at the Borders of Islam," "Jewish-Christian Conflict," "The highbrow task of the Dominican Order," and "Gender") that discover medieval exegesis as a automobile for the expression of communal or non secular id, one who displays shared or competing notions of sacred heritage and sacred textual content. This well timed ebook will entice students and lay readers alike and should be crucial examining for college students of comparative faith, historians charting the background of non secular clash within the medieval Mediterranean, and all these drawn to the intersection of Jewish,
Christian, and Muslim ideals and practices.
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