One God, Three Faiths: Judaism, Christianity, and Islam

ONE GOD, THREE FAITHS: TAUGHT BY F.E. PETERS Judaism, Christianity, and Islam 6 ONE GOD, THREE FAITHS: ...

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Course Syllabus JUDAISM, CHRISTIANITY ANDISLAM: Introductory Remarks .......................................................... ...

About Your Professor — F.E.Peters F.E. Peters is Professor of History, Religion and Middle Eastern Studies at New York Universit ...

Introduction In everything that follows, “Bible” always means the Hebrew or Jewish Bible. The Christian Scriptures will always b ...

LECTURE ONE Lecture 1 - “In the Beginning ...” Introduction: The biblical (and quranic) account of Creation and of the fundament ...

B. Abraham and the Covenant The history proper of the three great monotheistic communities of Jews, Christians and Muslims begin ...

Ishmael, The First Heir a. Abraham and his wife Sarah were bar- ren. In fact, Sarah was beyond normal child-bearing years. So, ...

Why do Jews and Christians say “God” and Muslims “Allah”? Are they dif- ferent deities? Why did He choose Abraham? Why did He p ...

LECTURE TWO Lecture 2 - The Israelite Experience Introduction: How the descendants of Abraham grew into a tribal people, Israel; ...

Jacob, called Israel after a divine manifestation, has twelve sons whose descendants constitute the Twelve Tribes of Israel. Th ...

e. The Torah portion of the Bible (the “Penteuch” or “Five Pieces”) ends with the death of Moses. The books follow- ing this fro ...

FORGREATERUNDERSTANDING How did these wandering Hebrews become a people, with a land, and with kings? What is the role of Moses ...

Though at his death, aged 137 (Gen. 25:17), Ishmael disappears from the Bible, he remained in the consciousness of the Jews. We ...

and refraining from pork. True, the Ishmaelite Arabs had been corrupt- ed by their long association with the pagans who surround ...

Lecture 3 - From Israelite to Jew Introduction: We now trace the trajectory of the Jews in the crucial era after their Exile, an ...

b. Alexander the Great drove the Persian armies out of their conquests and even their homeland in the 330s BCE and the Middle Ea ...

LECTURE THREE Model of the Second Temple © Todd Bolen THE SECOND TEMPLE IN JERUSALEM The first Jerusalem Temple, the grandiose s ...

Apocalyptic Despair and Messianic Expectation a. In the light of events in the world of this time, Second Temple (after the Exi ...

How did the Israelites become Jews? What is different after the Exile? What was the special challenge of Hellenism to Judaism? ...