Bringing together scholars from across the world, this publication shows Christians and Muslims – individually or together – reading the canonical Gospels of the New Testament in ‘conversation’ with Islamic texts and contexts.
In the discovery of meaning between text, context and praxis, this volume asks ‘what are the texts doing?’ in contexts as far flung as Indonesia, the Hijaz of early Islam, in Persian poetry of medieval times or modern Sunni interpretation in north America. This second edited volume in the series Reading the Bible in Islamic Context, continues the pioneering venture in contextual and intertextual reading. It shows the richness of cooperative scholarship that results from reading the New Testament in Islamic context, and exploring how the Gospel is understood in various religious traditions.
The Gospels in Islamic Context will be of interest to scholars, students, and practitioners, encouraging them to explore new methods for taking into account intertextual factors as well as the history of Muslim-Christian relations that arises from them. It is a venture in which Muslims and Christians travel side by side and in conversation with each other, although with significantly different perspectives and often different agendas.
Bringing together scholars from across the world, this publication shows Christians and Muslims – individually or together – reading the canonical Gospels of the New Testament in ‘conversation’ with Islamic texts and contexts.
0.Introduction - Introduction: Readers, Texts and Contexts. Part A:
Foundations for Conversation, The injil and the Gospels: Meaning and Status.
1.Good News: Greek euangelion, Arabic injl and Modern Quran and Bible
Translations in Islamic Contexts. 2.What are the Gospels? A Christian
Reflection. 3.Balaaghi and the Canonical Gospels. 4.Authenticating the New
Testament Gospels from a Sunnite Perspective. Part B: Seven Conversations,
1.
Islamic Literature on Jesus: Where are the Canonical Gospels? 5.Biblical
Allusions in Persian Literature: Persian Poets in the Footsteps of the
Christian Tradition. 6.A Colloquy of God with Jesus: New Testament Parallels
in an Early Collection of Sayings of Jesus in Islam.
2. Translation: Words in
Context. 7.The First Gospel in Arabic: The Islamic Context. 8.Kitab Suci
Injil: Its Significance for Reading the Matthean Nativity Story in the
Indonesian Islamic Context.
3. Birth Narratives: A Shared Story? 9.The Virgin
Mary's Birth and Early Life in Three Narratives: New Testament, Qur'an, and
Biblical Apocrypha. 10.Redeeming Zechariah: Silence as Mercy in Luke 1 and Q3
and Q19.
4. Signs: A Shared Category? 11.Miracles as Signs? Revisiting Jesus
Gospel Miracles in the Light of Medieval Muslim Critique. 12.Signs of God in
the Quran and the Gospel of John: Persuading the Audience to Believe.
5.
Barzakh and Paradise: A Shared Concept? 13.The Quran and the Parable of the
Rich Man and Lazarus: Crossing Over Barriers. 14.Today You will Be with Me
in Paradise Reading Luke 23:43 in Islamic Contexts.
6. Reading in Context.
15.Respecting Mary: Woman, Mother or Inconsequential? Reconsidering John 2:4
in the Context of Islam. 16.Chapter Sixteen Contesting the Meaning of the
Sheep and the Goats: Variations on Contemporary Indonesian Christians
Readings of Matthew 25:31
46. 7. Reading the Sermon on the Mount. 17.By whose
Authority? Sayyid Ahmad Khan (d. 1898) and the Authors of the Christian New
Testament. 18.The Sermon on the Mount Reading Group.
Georgina L. Jardim is a Research Associate of the Centre for Muslim-Christian Studies Oxford and Lecturer at the University of Gloucestershire, UK.
Ida Glaser is the founder of the Center for Muslim and Christian Studies Houston, USA as well as International Academic Coordinator of the Centre for Muslim-Christian Studies Oxford, UK.
Shirin Shafaie is an associate research fellow and member of the Reading the Bible in the Context of Islam project at the Centre for Muslim-Christian Studies in Oxford.
