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By analysing, first, the typology and plausible date of the Jesus texts contained in the Qur’ān (which implies moving far beyond both the habitual chronology of the Qur’ān and the common thematic division of the passages in question) and by examining, in the second place, the Qur’ān’s earliest Christology via-à-vis its later (and indeed much better known) Muhamadan kerygma, the present study answers these crucial questions and, thereby, sheds new light on the Qur’ān’s original sectarian milieu and pre-canonical development.
Product Details
| ISBN-13: | 9783110597646 |
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| Publisher: | De Gruyter |
| Publication date: | 11/19/2018 |
| Series: | Judaism, Christianity, and Islam - Tension, Transmission, Transformation , #5 |
| Pages: | 194 |
| Product dimensions: | 6.10(w) x 9.06(h) x (d) |
| Age Range: | 18 Years |
About the Author
Carlos A. Segovia, Saint Louis University, Madrid Campus, Spain.
Table of Contents
Preface IX
Abbreviations XVII
1 Introduction: Traditional Views and New Insights on the Quranic Jesus 1
Descriptive vs. Anti-Christian Theological Texts? 1
The Study of the Quranic JESUS between the 1830s and Now 2
From Carl Friedrich Gerock to Denise Masson's Ecumenical Reading of the Qur'an 2
Robert Charles Zaehner and the "Nestorian" Matrix of the Qur'an's Christology 4
Henri Michaud and the Hypothesis of a Jewish-Christian Influence on the Qur'an 7
Geoffrey Parrinder's Theological Approach to the Quranic Jesus 9
From Ali Merad to Heikki Räisänen's Historical Interpretation 11
Giuseppe Rizzardi, Claus Schedl, and Günther Risse 15
Neal Robinson'S Comparative Study on Christ in Islam and Christianity 16
Addendum. Investigations on the Emergence of Islam and 7th-Century Near-East Christianity 17
Purpose and Argument of this Book, with a Note on the Notion of "Symptomatic Reading" 20
Three Preliminary Notions: Polyphony, Periphery, Hypertextuality 20
Introducing the Argument of the BOOK AND Its Parts 23
2 Jesus in the Quranic Corpus: Texts and Contexts 26
Distribution of the Relevant Passages 26
The Texts, with a Brief Commentary 27
Surat al-Baqara (Q 2, "The Cow") 27
No. 1: Q 2:87 27
No.2: Q 2:136 28
No. 3: Q 2:253 29
Surat A 'Imran (Q 3, "The House of 'Imran") 29
No. 4: Q 3:33-63 29
No. 5: Q 3:84 36
Surat al-Nisa' (Q 4, "Women") 36
No. 6: Q 4:155-9 36
No. 7: Q 4:163 37
No. 8: Q 4:171-2 38
Surat at-Ma'ida (Q 5, "The Table") 39
No. 9: Q 5:17 39
No. 10: Q 5:46 39
No. 11: Q 5:72-5 40
No. l2: Q 5:78 41
No. 13: Q 5:110-18 41
Surat al-An 'am (Q 6, "Livestock") 44
No. 14: Q 6:84-7 44
Surat al-Tawba (Q 9, "Repentance") 44
No. 15: Q 9:30-1 44
Surat Maryam (Q 19, "Mary") 45
No. 16: Q 19:2-36 45
Surat al-Anbiyya' (Q 21, "The Prophets") 48
No 17: Q 21:91 48
Surat al-Mu'minun (Q 23, "The Believers") 49
No. 18: Q 23:50 49
Surat al-Ahzab (Q 33, "The Factions") 50
No.19: Q 33:7-8 50
Surat al-Šura (Q. 42, "Consultation") 50
No. 20: Q 42:13 50
Surat al-Zuhruf (Q 43, "Ornaments") 51
No. 21: Q 43:57-64 51
Surat al-Hadid (Q 57, "Iron") 52
No. 22: Q 57:25-7 52
Surat al-Saff (Q. 61, "The Lines") 53
No. 23: Q 61:6 53
No. 24: Q 61:14 53
Surat al-Tahrim (Q 66, "The Forbidding") 54
No. 25: Q 66:12 54
3 Reassessing the Typology, Date, and Ideology of the Jesus Passages - and Their Setting 55
Towards a New Classification, Formal and Thematic 55
Formal Division 55
Thematic Division 55
Deciphering the Date of the Jesus Passages 58
Overlooked Texts in Defence of Jesus (and Mary) against the Jews 58
The Vindication of the Quranic Prophet in Q 3:84 58
The Parallel Vindication of the Jesus in Q 2:136 60
Anti-Jewish Rhetoric, Anti-Christian Texts, and the Date of the Jesus Passages 63
Their Setting and the Chronology of the Corpus 68
Ideological Stages, Redactional Layers, and Historical Periods 68
The P1 Jesus Passages as a Response to mid-7th-century Jewish Writings like Sefer Z&reveipa;rubbabel and Sefer Tôl&reveipa;dôt Yešû 75
The P2 Jesus Passages and the Making of a New Religious identity 85
Transition 87
4 Moving Backwards: A Peripheral South-Arabian Christology? 89
The Withdrawal from Byzantium's Political and Religious Control in 6th-Century Yemen - and the Arabian Peninsula 89
The Making of a Christian Yemen in the 6th Century 89
Reflections on Abr&reveipa;ha's Enigmatic Christology 91
Peripheral Christianity and Formative Islam 96
East Syria and Iraq, or Christianity beyond the Limes of the Byzantine Empire 101
Monks, Bishops, and the Plausible Anti-Chalcedonian Setting of Q 9:31, 34 104
Misunderstood Terms and Redactional Layers in Q 9:30-1 104
Pro-Chalcedonian Bishops and Anti-Chalcedonian Monks? 110
The Philological Crux in v. 9:31a - and v. 9:30 113
Five Hypotheses in Search of Q9:31's Vorlage 114
5 From the Qur'an's Early Christology to the Elaboration of the Muhamadan Kerygma 118
A Sketch of the Early Qur'an Christology (Q 75-107) 118
Introducing a Systematically Overlooked but Crucial Topic 118
A Heavenly Messenger that Speaks Directly to Mankind and Refers to God as "He" - but Who Is One with God 119
Excursus 1: Traces of an Angelomorphic Christology? 125
Introducing the Human alongside the Divine (Q 17, 68, 73-4, 81, 87, 88) 129
The Need of a Human Messenger - Almost Absent from the Earliest Quranic Layers 129
The Exaltation of the Human Messenger 132
Substituting the Heavenly Messenger by a Human Messenger: The Beginnings of the Muhamadan Kerygma (Q 53, 55, 69) 136
A Dual Farewell to the Heavenly Messenger 136
Re-imagining Jesus as a New John the Baptist 140
Excursus 2: Contesting the Exclusiveness of the Muhamadan Kerygma, or Reimagining Proto-Shite Christology vis-à-vis the Making of a Tribal- and Supra-Tribal Religion 140
Afterword 144
Bibliography 151
Index of Ancient Sources 166
Index of Ancient and Modern Authors 180