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The monotheists : Jews, Christians, and Muslims in conflict and competition.
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ISBN: 1282157299 9786612157295 1400825717 0691114609 0691114617 069112373X 0691123721 9786612158353 128215835X 1400825709 9781400825714 9780691123738 9781400825707 9781282158351 9781282157293 Year: 2003 Publisher: Princeton, N.J. ; Woodstock : Princeton University Press,

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The world's three great monotheistic religions have spent most of their historical careers in conflict or competition with each other. And yet in fact they sprung from the same spiritual roots and have been nurtured in the same historical soil. This book--an extraordinarily comprehensive and approachable comparative introduction to these religions--seeks not so much to demonstrate the truth of this thesis as to illustrate it. Frank Peters, one of the world's foremost experts on the monotheistic faiths, takes Judaism, Christianity, and Islam, and after briefly tracing the roots of each, places them side by side to show both their similarities and their differences. Volume I, The Peoples of God, tells the story of the foundation and formation of the three monotheistic communities, of their visible, historical presence. Volume II, The Words and Will of God, is devoted to their inner life, the spirit that animates and regulates them. Peters takes us to where these religions live: their scriptures, laws, institutions, and intentions; how each seeks to worship God and achieve salvation; and how they deal with their own (orthodox and heterodox) and with others (the goyim, the pagans, the infidels). Throughout, he measures--but never judges--one religion against the other. The prose is supple, the method rigorous. This is a remarkably cohesive, informative, and accessible narrative reflecting a lifetime of study by a single recognized authority in all three fields. The Monotheists is a magisterial comparison, for students and general readers as well as scholars, of the parties to one of the most troubling issues of today--the fierce, sometimes productive and often destructive, competition among the world's monotheists, the siblings called Jews, Christians, and Muslims.

God of Abraham
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ISBN: 1280443499 0195359461 1423738837 9781423738831 9780195359466 9780195083125 0195083121 9781280443497 0195083121 0197739350 Year: 1996 Publisher: New York : Oxford University Press,

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Drawing on a wealth of traditional and philosophical material, mainly from Jewish sources, this treatise shows how human values illuminate the idea of God, which in turn sheds light on our value concerns.


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Uit Abraham geboren : Jodendom, Christendom, Islam en hun vertakkingen
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ISBN: 9072100298 Year: 1990 Publisher: Turnhout : Brepols,

Contre les gentils
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ISSN: 01847155 12754226 ISBN: 9782251014555 2251010149 9782251014456 9782251014807 9782251014906 2251014454 9782251010144 225101490X 2251014551 2251014802 Year: 1982 Volume: 255, 385, 396, 419, 430 Publisher: Paris: Les Belles Lettres,


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Greek Gods Abroad : Names, Natures, and Transformations
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ISBN: 9780520293946 0520293940 9780520967250 0520967259 Year: 2017 Volume: 72 Publisher: Berkeley, CA : University of California Press,

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From even before the time of Alexander the Great, the Greek gods spread throughout the Mediterranean, carried by settlers and largely adopted by the indigenous populations. By the third century b.c., gods bearing Greek names were worshipped everywhere from Spain to Afghanistan, with the resulting religious systems a variable blend of Greek and indigenous elements. Greek Gods Abroad examines the interaction between Greek religion and the cultures of the eastern Mediterranean with which it came into contact. Robert Parker shows how Greek conventions for naming gods were extended and adapted and provides bold new insights into religious and psychological values across the Mediterranean. The result is a rich portrait of ancient polytheism as it was practiced over 600 years of history.

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