Neighboring Faiths: Christianity, Islam, and Judaism in the Middle Ages and Today
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| Rating | : | 4.52 (769 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 022616893X |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 352 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2013-06-26 |
| Language | : | English |
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Exceptional scholarship into the tangled world of Jewish, Christian Dr. Christopher Leighton Exceptional scholarship into the tangled world of Jewish, Christian and Muslim relations. This collection of essays makes for demanding, but very rewarding reading.
There have been countless scripture-based studies of the three religions of the book,” but Nirenberg goes beyond those to pay close attention to how the three religious neighbors loved, tolerated, massacred, and expelled each otherall in the name of Godin periods and places both long ago and far away. In Neighboring Faiths, David Nirenberg examines how Muslims, Christians, and Jews lived with and thought about each other during the Middle Ages and what the medieval past can tell us ab
The identities of Jews, Christians, and Muslims, he argues, are fundamentally enmeshed; how one group thinks about itself cannot be separated from how it thinks about the others. If Nirenberg is right that ideas matter, especially once they have hardened into what he calls 'habits of thought,' our concern about the future relations between Jews, Christians, and Muslims should make us study the ideas they had about themselves and one another in the past.". "It's no surprise that Nirenberg's new book, Neighboring Faiths, isn't a feel-good story about how we can all get along