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In Reading the Rabbis Eva De Visscher examines the Hebrew scholarship of Englishman Herbert of Bosham (c.1120-c.1194). Chiefly known as the loyal secretary and hagiographer of Archbishop Thomas Becket and enemy of Henry II, he appears here as an outstanding Hebraist whose linguistic proficiency and engagement with Rabbinic sources, including contemporary teachers, were unique for a northern-European Christian of his time. Two commentaries on the Psalms by Herbert form the focus of scrutiny. In demonstrating influence from Jewish and Christian texts such as Rashi, Hebrew-French glossaries, Hebrew-Latin Psalters, and Victorine scholarship, De Visscher situates Herbert within the context of an increased interest in the revision of Jerome's Latin Bible and literal exegesis, and a heightened Christian awareness of Jewish 'other-ness'.

Christian Hebraists --- Christianity and other religions --- Judaism --- Hébraïsants chrétiens --- Christianisme --- Judaïsme --- History --- Relations --- Christianity --- Histoire --- Herbert, --- Knowledge --- 296*83 --- 27 <420> "04/14" --- 820 "04/14" --- Relatie jodendom: islam --- Kerkgeschiedenis--Engeland--Middeleeuwen --- Engelse literatuur--Middeleeuwen --- 820 "04/14" Engelse literatuur--Middeleeuwen --- 296*83 Relatie jodendom: islam --- Jews --- Religions --- Semites --- Syncretism (Christianity) --- Hebraists, Christian --- Hebraists --- Religion --- Boseham, Herbert von, --- Boseham, Herbertus de, --- Bosehamensis, Herbertus, --- Bosehamensis, Herebertus, --- Bosehamensis, Heribertus, --- Bosham, Herbert of, --- Bosham, Herbert von, --- Bossanhamensis, Herbertus, --- Herbertus, --- Herebertus, --- Heribertus, --- Judaism.

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The term "Abrahamic religions" has gained considerable currency in both scholarly and ecumenical circles as a way of referring to Judaism, Christianity, and Islam. In The Family of Abraham, Carol Bakhos steps back from this convention to ask a frequently overlooked question: What, in fact, is Abrahamic about these three faiths? Exploring diverse stories and interpretations relating to the portrayal of Abraham, she reveals how he is venerated in these different scriptural traditions and how scriptural narratives have been pressed into service for nonreligious purposes. Grounding her study in a close examination of ancient Jewish textual practices, primarily midrash, as well as medieval Muslim Stories of the Prophets and the writings of the early Church Fathers, Bakhos demonstrates that ancient and early-medieval readers often embellished the image of Abraham and his family--Sarah, Hagar, Ishmael, and Isaac. Her analysis dismantles pernicious misrepresentations of Abraham's firstborn son, Ishmael, and provocatively challenges contemporary references to Judaism and Islam as sibling religions. As Bakhos points out, an uncritical adoption of the term "Abrahamic religions" not only blinds us to the diverse interpretations and traditions of Judaism, Christianity, and Islam but also artificially separates these faiths from their historical contexts. In correcting mistaken assumptions about the narrative and theological significance of Abraham, The Family of Abraham sheds new light on key figures of three world religions.

Abrahamic religions --- Religions --- Relations --- Abraham --- Abrahamic religions. --- 296*83 --- 297.116*2 --- Interreligious relations --- Relations among religions --- Relations. --- Relatie jodendom: islam --- Relatie Islam tot Jodendom --- Abraham, --- Abram --- Abramo --- Abū al-Anbiyāʼ Ibrāhīm al-Khalīl --- Abŭraham --- Avraam --- Avraham --- Avram --- Halil-ül-Rahman İbrahim --- Ibrāhīm al-Khalīl --- Ibrahim --- İbrahim, --- Khalīl Allāh --- Nabi Ibrahim --- אברהם --- אברהם אבינו --- إبراهيم الخليل --- 297.116*2 Relatie Islam tot Jodendom --- 296*83 Relatie jodendom: islam --- Religions - Relations --- Abraham - (Biblical patriarch) --- In rabbinical literature. --- In the Qurʼan.

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Christianity, Judaism, and Islam are usually treated as autonomous religions, but in fact across the long course of their histories the three religions have developed in interaction with one another. 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 about how they do so today. 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 other-all in the name of God-in periods and places both long ago and far away. Nirenberg argues that the three religions need to be studied in terms of how each affected the development of the others over time, their proximity of religious and philosophical thought as well as their overlapping geographies, and how the three "neighbors" define-and continue to define-themselves and their place in terms of one another. From dangerous attractions leading to interfaith marriage; to interreligious conflicts leading to segregation, violence, and sometimes extermination; to strategies for bridging the interfaith gap through language, vocabulary, and poetry, Nirenberg aims to understand the intertwined past of the three faiths as a way for their heirs to produce the future-together.

Christian religion --- Islam --- Jewish religion --- anno 500-1499 --- anno 1500-1799 --- anno 1800-1999 --- Religions --- Religious adherents --- Judaism --- Christianity and other religions --- 297.116*1 --- 297.116*2 --- 296*82 --- 296*83 --- Christianity --- Syncretism (Christianity) --- Jews --- Semites --- Mohammedanism --- Muhammadanism --- Muslimism --- Mussulmanism --- Muslims --- Adherents of religions --- Believers, Religious --- Faith, People of --- Members of religions --- People of faith --- People of religion --- Religions, Adherents of --- Religious believers --- Persons --- Comparative religion --- Denominations, Religious --- Religion, Comparative --- Religions, Comparative --- Religious denominations --- World religions --- Civilization --- Gods --- Religion --- Relations --- History --- Relatie Islam tot Christendom --- Relatie Islam tot Jodendom --- Dialoog joden - christenen --- Relatie jodendom: islam --- Christentum. --- Judentum. --- Islam. --- Christianity. --- Interfaith relations. --- Judaism. --- Religious adherents. --- Relations. --- To 1500. --- 296*83 Relatie jodendom: islam --- 296*82 Dialoog joden - christenen --- 297.116*2 Relatie Islam tot Jodendom --- 297.116*1 Relatie Islam tot Christendom