Leiden: Brill, Date: 2011. First edition. Octavo. xv, (1), 372pp. Indices. Pictorial buckram with lilac/gray spine lettered in white. A fine but ex-library copy (with minimal markings; i.e. rubber stamps on title page & bottom of text block). The worldview that all human beings belong to one big family has, in the history of religions, never been taken for granted. Moreover, human rights are a modern notion that should not be projected back onto the sacred texts of Judaism, Christianity, and Islam. However, from the Hellenistic period onwards one encounters the idea of human duties towards not only parents, neighbors and fellow citizens but to all human beings. This volume explores the development of this idea from Antiquity to the present time focussing on the "other" as "neighbor, enemy, and infidel", on the interpretation of the Biblical story of Abraham's sacrifice and on ancient and modern ethical and legal implications of the concept of human dignity. (Publisher) Contents: Perceptions of a common humanity.; Models of the relationship between God and human in 'paganism' /; Natale Spineto.; The quest for a rabbinic perception of a common humanity /; Matthias Morgenstern.; 'God created Adam in his likeness' in the Muslim tradition /; Lutz Richter-Bernburg.; Paul's anthropology and its contribution to the formation of humanity in the perspective of Reformation theology /; Hans-Peter Grosshans.; Between the Noahide laws and Israelite-Edomite brotherhood : paradigms of h ...

ISBN10: 9004201653, ISBN13: 9789004201651, [publisher: Brill, Leiden] Hardcover First Edition Octavo. xv, (1), 372pp. Indices. Pictorial buckram with lilac/gray spine lettered in white. A fine but ex-library copy (with minimal markings; i.e. rubber stamps on title page & bottom of text block). The worldview that all human beings belong to one big family has, in the history of religions, never been taken for granted. Moreover, human rights are a modern notion that should not be projected back onto the sacred texts of Judaism, Christianity, and Islam. However, from the Hellenistic period onwards one encounters the idea of human duties towards not only parents, neighbors and fellow citizens but to all human beings. This volume explores the development of this idea from Antiquity to the present time focussing on the "other" as "neighbor, enemy, and infidel", on the interpretation of the Biblical story of Abraham's sacrifice and on ancient and modern ethical and legal implications of the concept of human dignity. (Publisher) Contents: Perceptions of a common humanity.; Models of the relationship between God and human in 'paganism' /; Natale Spineto.; The quest for a rabbinic perception of a common humanity /; Matthias Morgenstern.; 'God created Adam in his likeness' in the Muslim tradition /; Lutz Richter-Bernburg.; Paul's anthropology and its contribution to the formation of humanity in the perspective of Reformation ...

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