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020 _a0199747466 (hardback : alk. paper)
020 _a9780199747467 (hardback : alk. paper)
024 8 _a9786612792731
035 _a(ER-O/L-OSO)vtls000063237
035 _a(OCoLC)692271470
050 4 _aBT301.3
_b.P43 2011
100 1 _aPeters, F. E.
_q(Francis E.)
245 1 0 _aJesus and Muhammad :
_bparallel tracks, parallel lives /
_cF. E. Peters.
260 _aOxford ;
_aNew York :
_bOxford University Press,
_c2011.
300 _a(xxiii, 214 p.)
_c22 cm.
504 _aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
505 0 _aIntroduction. 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.
506 _aAvailable to OhioLINK libraries.
520 8 _aJesus 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.
600 0 0 _aJesus Christ
_vBiography.
600 0 0 _aMuhammad,
_cProphet,
_dd. 632
_vBiography.
650 0 _aChristianity and other religions
_xIslam.
650 0 _aIslam
_xRelations
_xChristianity.
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