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How Judaism, Christianity, and Islam have reimagined Abraham in their own imagesJews, Christians, and Muslims supposedly share a common religious heritage in the patriarch Abraham, and the idea tha...
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How Judaism, Christianity, and Islam have reimagined Abraham in their own images

Jews, Christians, and Muslims supposedly share a common religious heritage in the patriarch Abraham, and the idea that he should serve only as a source of unity among the three traditions has become widespread in both scholarly and popular circles. But in Inheriting Abraham, Jon Levenson reveals how the increasingly conventional notion of the three equally "Abrahamic" religions derives from a dangerous misunderstanding of key biblical and Qur'anic texts, fails to do full justice to any of the traditions, and is often biased against Judaism in subtle and pernicious ways.

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Pages: 264
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Imprint: Princeton University Press
Series: Library of Jewish Ideas
Publication Date: 26 October 2014
ISBN: 9780691163550
Format: Paperback
BISACs:

RELIGION / Judaism / History, Judaism, RELIGION / Christianity / History, RELIGION / Islam / History, RELIGION / Comparative Religion, History of religion, Christianity, Islam, Comparative religion

"Best Nonfiction Jewish Book of 2012, Jewish Ideas Daily.com"
Jon D. Levenson is the Albert A. List Professor of Jewish Studies at Harvard University. His many books include Resurrection and the Restoration of Israel: The Ultimate Victory of the God of Life, which won the National Jewish Book Award, and Creation and the Persistence of Evil (Princeton).