Details

Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• Cunningham, Lawrence S

Titel

Religion booknotes

Ist Teil von

• Commonweal, 2008, Vol.135 (1), p.34

Ort / Verlag

New York: Commonweal Foundation

Erscheinungsjahr

2008

Quelle

Literature Online (LION eBooks)

Beschreibungen/Notizen

• F. E. Peters's new study compares the canonical evolution, transmission, production, and language of the sacred books of Jews, Christians, and Muslims. Readers who have some knowledge of biblical history and scholarship will already be familiar with much of the territory Peters surveys. But here that familiar territory borders on a detailed discussion of the Qur'an, and the frontier between these two traditions makes for an illuminating and often surprising adventure of ideas. The book has neither footnotes nor bibliography, but the depth of the author's scholarship is nevertheless evident on every page.