Inheriting Abraham: The Legacy of the Patriarch in Judaism, Christianity, and Islam (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9780691155692)

How Judaism, Christianity, and Islam have reimagined Abraham in their own images

Jews, Christians, and Muslims supposedly share a common religious heritage in the patriarch Abraham, and the idea that he should serve only as a source of unity among the three traditions has become widespread in both scholarly and popular circles. But in Inheriting Abraham, Jon Levenson reveals how the increasingly conventional notion of the three equally "Abrahamic" religions derives from a dangerous misunderstanding of key biblical and Qur'anic texts, fails to do full justice to any of the traditions, and is often biased against Judaism in subtle and pernicious ways.

Author: Jon D. Levenson
ISBN-10: 0691155690
ISBN-13: 9780691155692
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Language: English
Published: 09/30/2012
Pages: 264
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 1.20lbs
Size: 9.20h x 6.20w x 1.10d

Review Citation(s):
Christian Century 10/17/2012 pg. 54
Chronicle of Higher Education 10/19/2012 pg. 16
Publishers Weekly 10/15/2012 pg. 20
Choice 03/01/2013
New York Review of Books 05/23/2013 pg. 38