{"product_id":"the-monotheists-jews-christians-and-muslims-in-conflict-and-competition-volume-1-the-peoples-of-god-9780691123721","title":"The Monotheists  Jews Christians and Muslims in","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe world's three great monotheistic religions have spent most of their historical careers in conflict or competition with each other. This book is a comprehensive and approachable comparative introduction to these religions. It tells the story of the foundation and formation of the three monotheistic communities, of their historical presence.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWinner of the 2003 Award for Best Professional\/Scholarly Book in Religion, Association of American Publishers One of Choice's Outstanding Academic Titles for 2004 \"[A] titanic undertaking... The Monotheists is not exceptional for [its] detachment alone, or for its erudition, or even for its originality. It is exceptional because Peters has created a new genre for it.\"--Jack Miles, Los Angeles Times \"Historian Peters has long been an astute and objective chronicler of the history and beliefs of the three great monotheistic religions--Judaism, Christianity and Islam. In this sprawling, majestic and elegant narrative, he offers the best study we presently have of the ways, words and wisdom of these religions [with] straightforward prose and evenhanded examination... Peters's magnificent book is the new place to turn for a first-rate historical introduction to these three religions.\"--Publishers Weekly (starred review) \"There is no more informative, accessible and comprehensive guide to the beliefs and practices of the three great monotheistic religions than these two volumes... Peters has a great story to tell, and he tells it very well. He writes with extraordinary clarity and evenhandedness... He treats thousands of complex and sensitive topics with meticulous learning without offending or proselytizing. Moreover, he manages to keep the three narratives--Judaism, Christianity and Islam--going at once, and allows readers both to appreciate the distinctive character of each and to see how their stories have very frequently intertwined.\"--Daniel J. Harrington, America \"Peters has done it again. With these two volumes he has created an excellent and timely resource for understanding the similarities and differences between the three monotheistic traditions of the West.\"--Choice\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePreface xv  Introduction xix  1. THE COVENANT: FROM ISRAELITE TO JEW 1  A Prologue on Earth 1  The Quran's Account of Early Humanity 1  History Begins 2  Faith and Act 3  A Holy Land 4  Hagar and Ishmael 5  Ishmaelites and Arabs 6  Abraham in Mecca 8  Hebron 8  Isaac and the Covenant 9  Claims and Counterclaims 10  Jacob's Dream at Bethel 11  The Name(s) and Nature of God 12  The Builder Kings 14  The Temple as Haram 15  The Sanctity of Jerusalem 17  A Troubled Legacy 22  The Samaritan Schism 23  The Voice of the Prophets 23  A Harsh Theodicy and an Uncertain Future 24  Judaea and Ioudaioi 26  The Passage of Power and Prestige 27  Second Temple Sectarianism 29  Words and the Word of Wisdom 33  A Cure for Transcendence? 34  The Harvest of Hellenism 35  Jews in Diaspora 37  The Word of God 39  Personification and Hypostatization 40  Satan from Prince of Darkness to Desert Demon 41  Apocalypticism: Unveiling the End 42  A Message of Hope 43  Second Temple Messianism 44  The Son of Man 44  2. THE GOOD NEWS OF JESUS 47  The Dossier on Jesus 47  The Historical Jesus and the Christ of History 48  The Gospels 49  Luke and History 50  Jesus: A Life 52  Born Again 53  The Ministry 53  The Last Days 55  The End and the Beginning 57  Jesus the Messiah 58  Jesus in the Quran 58  The Jewish and the Muslim Jesus 61  The Kingdom 63  After the Crucifixion 63  Saul\/Paul 64  Paul's Jesus 65  The Resurrection 66  Christology 68  Ebionites and Docetists 68  The Apostle of the Gentiles 7  Paul and Judaism 72  Jewish Christianity 73  Judaizers 75  Paul: Jerusalem to Rome 76  The Great War and Its Aftermath 77  Earthly Messiahs 79  Later Jewish Messiahs 8  Sabbatai Zvi 81  3. MUHAMMAD THE PROPHET OF GOD 83  The Muhammad of History 84  When God Speaks 84  Hagiography and History 85  Mecca and Its Gods 85  The Meccan Haram 86  The Kaaba 88  Muhammad: A Life 89  The Message of Islam 9  Sacred History 91  The Bible and the Quran 92  The Opposition 93  The \"Satanic Verses\" 94  Muhammad's Night Journey and Ascension 95  Boycott 96  The Hegira 97  Medina 98  The Medina Accords 99  Muhammad and the Jews 100  The Religion of Abraham 102  The Master of Medina (624-628) 103  The Practice of Islam 105  Muhammad and the Jews (continued) 106  The Lord of Arabia (628-632) 107  Muhammad and the Jews (concluded) 108  The Wives and Children of the Prophet 109  The Opening of Mecca 111  Problems before and after Tabuk 113  The Last Years (631-632) 114  Muhammad and Jesus: Some Points of Comparison 116  The Career of Mecca 118  4. A KINGDOM OF PRIESTS 120  Identity Markers 121  In and Out 122  Kinship and Covenant 122  \"Be You Holy As I Am Holy\" 123  What Is a Jew? 124  Conversion and Clientage 125  Becoming a Christian 126  \"Jew and Greek\" 127  Religious Tolerance: The Romans on Jews and Christians 128  The World Turns Christian 130  Religious Tolerance: Christians on Pagans and Jews 131  The Need of Baptism, and of the Church 132  Augustine and the Donatists 133  Consensual and Coerced Conversion 135  The Jews of Western Christendom 137  The Talmud on Trial 139  Christians, Muslims, and Jews in Spain 140  The Christian War on Islam: Peter the Venerable and Ramon Lull 142  What of the Infidels? 145  Muslims, Christians ... and Other Christians in the Balkans 147  Naming the Others 150  The Making of a Muslim 151  An Arab, and Arabic, Islam 152  Islam and the Associators: The Hindu Case 154  5. ORTHODOXY AND HERESY 157  In Search of Jewish Orthodoxy 157  Exclusion and Banishment 158  The Separation of the Christians 160  Easter 162  Defining the Truth 163  Reaching for Orthodoxy: The Fundamental Principles of Jewish and Muslim Belief 165  Heresy in the Early Churches 167  Gnosticism 169  The Rule of Faith 171  Heresy, Witchcraft, and Reform 172  The Church of the Saints: The Cathars 175  The Albigensian Crusade 176  The Holy War against Heresy 177  The Secular Tribunal 178  Sleeping with the Enemy 179  The Spanish Inquisition 181  Who Possesses the Truth? 183  Papal Heresy 185  The Umma Divided: Sects and Sectarianism in Early Islam 186  Heresiography and Comparative Religion 187  Innovation and Heresy 188  Taking the Measure of Early Islamic Sectarians 189  Defining the Umma: The Sunni View of Islam 191  Sunnis and Shiites 192  The Zindiq Inquisition 194  The Enemy Within: Ibn Taymiyya 194  Fundamentalists as the Faithful Remnant 196  Catholic Judaism 197  Shades of Black: Orthodox Judaism 198  6. COMMUNITY AND AUTHORITY 202  A People Called Israel 202  A Kingdom Called Israel 203  After the Exile 204  Zionism 205  A New Political Order 206  Patriarch and Exilarch 207  The Geonim 208  Ashkenazi and Sephardic Jews 209  The Christian Ekklesia 210  Bishops and Priests 211  Hierarchy and Structure 213  Councils of Bishops, Local and Ecumenical 215  The Laity 215  The Primacy of Rome 217  Western and Eastern Christianity and Christendom 219  The Competition for Souls 220  Pope, Patriarch, and the Bulgarian Church 221  The Parting of the Ways, East and West 223  A Misbegotten Crusade 224  Church Reunion 225  A Papal Crisis: Celestine and Boniface 226  The Popes without Rome: Avignon 228  The Great Western Schism 229  Pisa and Constance 230  Conciliarism 231  The Papacy under Attack: Marsiglio of Padua and William of Ockham 232  The Voice of the Council: Haec sancta and Frequens 233  The Emperor and the Pope 234  \"Better the Turban of the Turk ...\" 235  Moscow, the Third Rome 236  Reformation and Counter-Reformation 237  The Radical Reformation: The Anabaptists 238  The Confessional Churches 239  7. CHURCH AND STATE: POPES, PATRIARCHS, AND EMPERORS 240  The Jewish Experience: From State to Church 240  \"Render to Caesar ...\" 243  The Christians and the Empire 245  The Persecutions 245  Constantine 247  The Contest Begins: Ambrose and the Emperor 248  The City of God and the City of Man 249  \"Two There Are ...\" 251  How the Pope Became a Prince 252  The College of Cardinals and the Roman Curia 254  How the Prince Became a Priest 255  Rome Redivivus: The Holy Roman Empire 257  The Two Swords: Gregory VII and Henry IV 258  The Papacy versus Frederick II 259  The Reformation as Political Event 261  Luther and the Princes 263  Calvin's Two Kingdoms 264  Church and State in the Counter-Reformation 265  The Papal States 265  8. THE CHURCH AS THE STATE: THE ISLAMIC COMMUNITY 268  The Umma 268  Holy War: The Islamic Case 269  War and Religion: The Jewish and Christian Cases 272  Dhimma and Dhimmis 273  Muslim Dhimmis in Christian Spain 275  Conversion by Levy: The Devshirme 276  The Millet System 277  The Caliphate 278  The Powers of the Caliph (and Others) 279  Tensions in the Community 280  Ali ibn Abi Talib (601-661) 281  The Succession 282  The Umayyads (r.661-750) 283  The Holy Family: Ahl al-Bayt 284  The Abbasids (r.750-1258) 285  From Alidism to Shiism 287  The Shiite Imamate 287  Sunnis and Shiites 289  The Hidden Imam 290  Political Ismailism: The Fatimids 291  Apocalyptic Ismailism--The Qarmatians 294  The Sultanate 295  The Ottomans and a Universal Caliphate 296  The End of the Caliphate 298  Iran as a Shiite State 299  The Shiite Ulama and the State 301  The Islamic Republic of Iran 302  An Early Modern Christian Theocracy: Reform Geneva 303  END THOUGHTS 307  Civics and Civility 308  Capital and Other Crimes 309  Making Jews 310  Making Christians 310  Making Muslims 311  A Crucial Difference 312  Index 313","brand":"Princeton University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49403739111767,"sku":"9780691123721","price":31.5,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780691123721.jpg?v=1730484405","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/the-monotheists-jews-christians-and-muslims-in-conflict-and-competition-volume-1-the-peoples-of-god-9780691123721","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}