What is it about?
The study deals with Jewish and Christian reception of the Book of Genesis and how the concepts "universalism" and "particularism" are used in Noah, Abraham and Jacob stories before the rise of Islam. As a synthesis of its discussed topics, the volume is a useful resource to understand early development of universalistic and particularistic ideas which became central theological topics in the three Abrahamic religions.
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Why is it important?
This volume detects the rhetorical rationality of universalistic-inclusive and particularistic-exclusive modes of reasoning in early Jewish, Christian and rabbinic writings which were then developed further in the Qur’an and early Islamic writings.
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Contributing to this volume was a great opportunity for me to delve deeper into how the book of Isaiah in the Hebrew Bible / Old Testament perceives Abraham as an ancestor, both from a universalistic and a particularistic perspective.
Stefan Green
Abo Akademi
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This page is a summary of: Introduction, April 2025, De Gruyter,
DOI: 10.1163/9789004728127_002.
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