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Encounters of the Children of Abraham from Ancient to Modern Times: 1
Author(s): Antii Laato (Author), Pekka Lindqvist (Author)
- Publisher: BRILL
- Publication Date: 31 May 2012
- Language: English
- Print length: 340 pages
- ISBN-10: 9004187286
- ISBN-13: 9789004187283
Book Description
The 16 contributions to this volume, written by scholars from various fields of religious studies, lead the reader to comprehend the plurality of interreligious encounters, hostile yet also peaceful, between the Children of Abraham, i.e. Judaism, Christianity and Islam.
Editorial Reviews
About the Author
Antti Laato, Dr.Theol. (1988) in Old Testament Exegetics, Åbo Akademi University, Finland, is Professor of Old Testament Exegetics and Judaic Studies at Åbo Akademi University. He has published extensively on the Old Testament, as well as Jewish Messianic beliefs. He is co-editor of Theodicy in the World of the Bible (Brill 2003) and main editor of the series Studies in the Rewritten Bible (Eisenbauns). Pekka Lindqvist, Dr. Theol. (2006) in Judaic Studies, Åbo Akademi University, Finland, is a teacher and post-doctoral research fellow in Exegetics and Judaic Studies at Åbo Akademi University. He has published a monograph Sin at Sinai(/i> (Eisenbrauns 2008) and is currently working on a text book in Finnish on early Jewish texts.
