03010cam a2200289Ia 4500 20230110150225.0 120522s2011 enkm sb a001 0ceng d 0199747466 (hardback : alk. paper) 9780199747467 (hardback : alk. paper) 9786612792731 (ER-O/L-OSO)vtls000063237 (OCoLC)692271470 BT301.3 .P43 2011 Peters, F. E. (Francis E.) Jesus and Muhammad : parallel tracks, parallel lives / F. E. Peters. Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2011. (xxiii, 214 p.) 22 cm. Includes bibliographical references and index. Introduction. Clearing the ground. The art of portraiture ; The long quests ; History and revelation ; Saints and their lives ; In the eyes of the believers ; Polemic and history ; Two foreign countries ; Parallel tracks, parallel lives -- The Settings. Jesus and first-century Palestine ; The context for Muhammad ; The prophets in place -- Opening the Files. The dossier on Jesus ; The dossier on Muhammad ; The New Testament and the Quran -- The Critic at work : coming of age. Jesus' infancy narratives ; The "infancy gospel of Islam" ; Where do we stand? -- The Living Voice. Jesus speaks ; Muhammad speaks, or sings ; Q and the Hadith -- The message : Jesus in Galilee. The shape of the gospels ; John the Baptist and Jesus ; The twelve ; Spreading the good news ; An itinerant preacher ; What was the good news? ; The kingdom ; Messiahs and the Messiah ; Signs and wonders ; A Jewish teacher ; The man and the message -- The message : Muhammad at Mecca. A preliminary exercise ; The man Muhammad ; The call to prophecy ; An experience of the unseen world ; A heavenly journey ; Identification, validation ; Muhammad's public preaching ; The Muslims pray ; Growing pressures ; The Satanic Verses ; Threats of the judgment ; The seal of the prophets ; Identifying the prophet ; Two prophetic reformers ; The plot against Muhammad ; A resort to violence ; The migration ; Two versions of the good news -- Act two : tragedy and Triumph. Jesus in Jerusalem ; Muhammad at Medina ; Politics and piety -- A new dawn : the aftermath, the legacy. Jesus, the aftermath ; Muhammad, the legacy ; Portraits from life -- Epilogue : spreading the word. Without the Lord ; How the message spread ; Making Christians ; Without the prophet ; The missionary impulse ; Conversion and assimilation ; Making Muslims. Available to OhioLINK libraries. Jesus and Muhammad are two of the best known and revered figures in history, each with a billion or more global followers. Here, Peters offers a clear and compelling analysis of the parallel lives of Jesus and Muhammad. Jesus Christ Biography. Muhammad, Prophet, d. 632 Biography. Christianity and other religions Islam. Islam Relations Christianity. lcc 60352 60352 0 0 lcc 0 0 AJMM AJM AJM 2023-01-10 0 0286669 2023-01-10 00:00:00 1 2023-01-10 BK VIRTUAITEM