Princeton University Press 1990 Trade paperback New Discusses the scriptures of the three faiths in various contexts, exegetical and legal. Num Pages: 424 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: HRA; HRLK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 235 x 155 x 26. Weight in Grams: 714. 1990. Paperback.....We ship daily from our Bookshop.

ISBN10: 069102054X, ISBN13: 9780691020549, [publisher: Princeton University Press] Softcover nach der Bestellung gedruckt Neuware - Printed after ordering - Invoking a concept as simple as it is brilliant, F. E. Peters has taken the basic texts of the three related--and competitive--religious systems we call Judaism, Christianity, and Islam and has juxtaposed them in a topical and parallel arrangement according to the issues that most concerned all these 'children of Abraham.' Through these extensive passages, and the author's skillful connective commentary, the three traditions are shown with their similarities sometimes startlingly underlined and their well-known differences now more profoundly exposed. What emerges from this unique and ambitious work is a panorama of belief, practice, and sensibility that will broaden our understanding of our religious and political roots in a past that is, by these communities' definition, still the present. The hardcover edition of the work is bound in one volume, and in the paperback version the identical material is broken down into three smaller but self-contained books. The second, 'The Word and the Law and the People of God,' discusses the scriptures of the three faiths in various contexts, exegetical and legal. Throughout the work we hear an amazing variety of voices, some familiar, some not, all of them central to the primary and secondary canons of their own tradition: alongside the ...
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ISBN10: 069102054X, ISBN13: 9780691020549, [publisher: Princeton University Press, New Jersey] Softcover Paperback. Invoking a concept as simple as it is brilliant, F. E. Peters has taken the basic texts of the three related--and competitive--religious systems we call Judaism, Christianity, and Islam and has juxtaposed them in a topical and parallel arrangement according to the issues that most concerned all these "children of Abraham." Through these extensive passages, and the author's skillful connective commentary, the three traditions are shown with their similarities sometimes startlingly underlined and their well-known differences now more profoundly exposed. What emerges from this unique and ambitious work is a panorama of belief, practice, and sensibility that will broaden our understanding of our religious and political roots in a past that is, by these communities' definition, still the present. The hardcover edition of the work is bound in one volume, and in the paperback version the identical material is broken down into three smaller but self-contained books. The second, "The Word and the Law and the People of God," discusses the scriptures of the three faiths in various contexts, exegetical and legal.Throughout the work we hear an amazing variety of voices, some familiar, some not, all of them central to the primary and secondary canons of their own tradition: alongside the Scriptural voice of God are the words of ...

Princeton University Press. Good. Date: 1990. Paperback. 069102054X . Foxing to exterior edge of pages. - Good overall condition. General wear. No major blemishes. No writing. . 1990. Princeton University Press ISBN 069102054X 9780691020549 [US]

ISBN10: 069102054X, ISBN13: 9780691020549, [publisher: Princeton University Press 1992-07-01, Princeton] Softcover Language: ENG
[London, United Kingdom] [Publication Year: 1992]

Princeton Princeton University Press 1990 Trade paperback New in new dust jacket.