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The Quranic Jesus : a new interpretation /

Back cover: This study reassesses the too-often oversimplified, in fact multilayered and polyvalent Christology of the Qur'ān against the intersecting of competing peripheral Christianities, anti-Jewish Christian polemics, and the making of a new Arab state in the 7th-century Near East. Additi...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Segovia, Carlos A., 1970- (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Berlin ; Boston : De Gruyter, [2019]
Colección:Judaism, Christianity, and Islam - tension, transmission, transformation ; volume 5.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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  • Introduction: traditional views and new insights on the Quranic Jesus
  • Descriptive vs. anti-christian theological texts?
  • The study of the Quranic Jesus between the 1830s and now
  • From Carl Friedrich Gerock to Denise Masson's ecumenical reading of the Qur'an
  • Robert Charles Zaehner and the "nestorian" matrix of the Qur'an's Christology
  • Henri Michaud and the hypothesis of a Jewish-Christian influence on the Qur'an
  • Geoffrey Parrinder's theological approach to the Quranic Jesus
  • From Ali Merad to Heikki Räisänen's historical interpretation
  • Guiseppe Rizzardi, Claus Schedl, and Günther Risse
  • Neal Robinson's comparative study on Christ in Islam and Christianity
  • Addendum. investigations on the emergennce of Islam and 7th-century
  • Purpose and argument of this book, with a note on the notion of "symptomatic reading"
  • Three preliminary notions: polyphony, periphery, hypertextuality
  • Introducing the argument of the book and its parts
  • Jesus in the Quranic corpus: texts and contexts
  • Distribution of the relevant passages
  • The texts, with a brief commentary
  • Sūrat al-Baqara (Q 2, "the cow")
  • Sūrat āl Imrān (Q 3, "the house of 'imrān")
  • Sūrat al-Nisā' (Q 4, "women")
  • Sūrat āl-Mā'ida (Q 5, "the table")
  • Sūrat al-An'ām (Q 6, "Livestock")
  • Sūrat al-Tawba (Q 9, "Repentance")
  • Sūrat Maryam (Q 19, "Mary")
  • Sūrat al-Anbiyya' (Q 21, "The Prophets")
  • Sūrat al-Mu'minūn (Q 23, "The Believers")
  • Sūrat al-Aḥzāb (Q 33, "The Factions")
  • Sūrat al-Šūrā (Q 42, "Consultation")
  • Sūrat al-Zuḥruf (Q 43, "Ornaments")
  • Sūrat al-Ḥadīd (Q 57, "Iron")
  • Sūrat al-Ṣaff (Q 61, "The Lines")
  • Sūrat al-Taḥrīm (Q 66, "The Forbidding")
  • Reassessing the typology, date, and ideology of the Jesus passages-and their setting
  • Towards a new classification, formal and thematic
  • Formal division
  • Thematic division
  • Deciphering the date of the Jesus passages
  • Overlooked texts in defence of Jesus (and Mary) against the Jews
  • The vindication of the Quranic prophet in Q 3:84
  • The parallel vindication of the Jesus in Q 2:136
  • Anti-jewish rhetoric, anti-christian texts, and the date of the Jesus passages
  • Their setting and the chronology of the corpus
  • Ideological stages, redactional layers, and historical periods
  • The P1 Jesus passages and the making of a new religious identity
  • Transition
  • Moving backwards: a peripheral south-Arabian Christology?
  • The withdrawal from Byzantium's political and religious control in 6th-century Yemen- and the Arabian Peninsula
  • The making of a Christian Yemen in the 6th century
  • Reflections on Abreha's enigmatic Christology
  • Peripheral Christianity and formative Islam
  • East Syria and Iraq, or Christianity beyond the limes of the Byzantine Empire
  • Monks, bishops, and the plausible anti-Chalcedonian setting of Q 9:31, 34
  • Misunderstood terms and redactional layers in Q 9:30-1
  • Pro-Chalcedonian bishops and anti-Chalcedonian monks?
  • The philological crux in v. 9:31a-and v. 9:30
  • Five hypotheses in search of Q 9:31's vorlage
  • From the Qur'an's early Christology to the elaboration of the Muhamadan Kerygma
  • A sketch of the early Qur'an Christology (Q 75-107)
  • Introducing a systematically overlooked but crucial topic
  • A heavenly messenger that speaks directly to mankind and refers to God as "He"
  • but who is one with God
  • Excursus 1: traces of an angelomorphic Christology?
  • Introducing the human alongside the divine (Q 17, 68, 73-4, 81, 87, 88)
  • The need of a human messenger-almost absent from the earliest Quranic layers
  • The exaltation of the human messenger
  • Substituting the heavenly messenger by a human messenger: the beginnings of the Muhamadan Kerygma (Q 53, 55, 69)
  • A dual farewell to the heavenly messenger
  • Re-imagining Jesus as a new John the Baptist
  • Excursus 2: contesting the exclusiveness of the Muhamadan Kerygma, or reimagining proto-shite Christology vis-a-vis the making of a tribal- and supra-tribal religion
  • Afterword
  • Bibliography
  • Index of ancient sources
  • Index of ancient and modern authors.