The making of a forefather : Abraham in Islamic and Jewish exegetical narratives / by Shari Lowin.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 281-291) and index.

TRANSLITERATIONS AND NOTATIONS -- ABBREVIATIONS -- ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS -- INTRODUCTION -- EXCURSUS: OVERVIEW OF SCHOLARSHIP ON MUSLIM-JEWISH INTERTEXTUALITY -- CHAPTER ONE: PROPHECY AND THE PRE-NATAL PATRIARCH -- CHAPTER TWO: INDEPENDENT INTELLECT OR "RIGHTLY GUIDED" : THE PATRIARCH DISCOVERS GOD -- APPENDIX -- BT Baba Batra 10a -- Pirqei de-Rabbi Eliezer, Chapter 26 -- The Kingdom of Heaven: Genesis 15:1-7, Qur'an 6:74-78 -- From "Azkir Gevurot" of Yose ben Yose (c. 4th-5th century CE) (lines 79-86) -- CHAPTER THREE: ON FINGER-FOOD, WET-NURSES, AND FATE -- APPENDIX BT Sotah 11b -- CHAPTER FOUR: THE FABULOUS FIRE-FIGHTING FROGS OF CHALDEA -- APPENDIX -- Qurʼan 21:51-71 -- BT Sanhedrin 74a -- Genesis Rabbah 38:13 -- CHAPTER FIVE: ABRAHAM, IBRAHIM, MOSES, AND MUHAMMAD -- APPENDICES -- APPENDIX A: CUANDO EL REY NIMROD -- APPENDIX B: ISLAMIC PRIMARY SOURCES -- APPENDIX C: MIDRASHIC PRIMARY SOURCES -- WORKS CITED -- INDEX.

This comparative analysis examines the Islamic and Jewish exegetical narratives ["hadith/isas al-anbiya" and "midrash aggadah"] on the early life of the forefather Abraham. It reveals how the traditions utilized one another's materials in creating and re-creating the patriarch in their own image. Each chapter examines a particular motif in Abraham's development, from the prophecy surrounding his birth to his discovery of God and polemics with pagans to his salvation in the fiery furnace of Chaldea. Indexes of the more salient rabbinic or Islamic texts follow at the end of each chapter. The work is particularly valuable for scholars of rabbinics and Islamicists alike; it challenges earlier scholarship by revealing that the Islamic and Jewish exegetical traditions were not entirely distinct traditions but were intertextually related, mutually giving and receiving ideas.

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