Abraham's Family
A Network of Meaning in Judaism, Christianity, and Islam
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Beschreibung
This volume presents a scholarly journey through the centuries on what many religious and ethnic groups have understood as "Abraham's Family". Abraham's family is brought in as a network of meaning to express opposition, antithesis or common ground within and between different religious movements.
Abraham, whom the apostle Paul calls the "father of us all" (Rom 4:16), was a central figure in Judaism from the outset and came to be important in Christianity and Islam. The Abraham tradition is an issue of narrative and counter-narrative, memory and counter-memory. Moreover, Abraham's family is brought in as a network of meaning to express opposition, antithesis or common ground within and between different religious movements. The contributions to this volume discuss the presentation and reception of Abraham's family in Judaism, Christianity, and Islam. The topics cover Hebrew Bible/Old Testament, Second Temple writings, New Testament, Rabbinic literature, Greek, Latin and Syriac church fathers, as well as Jewish medieval interpretation and a twelfth-century Arabic travel report of a pilgrimage to Mecca.
Autor*in
Lukas Bormann
Geboren 1962; 1993 Promotion; 2000 Habilitation; Lehrstühle an den Universitäten Erlangen-Nürnberg, Bayreuth und Braunschweig; Professor für Neues Testament an der Philipps-Universität Marburg.
Themen in »Abraham's Family«
reception of the Bible Abrahamic religions history of religion Patriarchs memory reception history of the Bible