By David Nirenberg
There were numerous scripture-based reports of the 3 “religions of the book,” yet Nirenberg is going past these to pay shut realization to how the 3 non secular buddies enjoyed, tolerated, massacred, and expelled every one other—all within the identify of God—in classes and locations either in the past and much away. Nirenberg argues that the 3 religions must be studied by way of how each one affected the advance of the others through the years, their proximity of non secular and philosophical suggestion in addition to their overlapping geographies, and the way the 3 “neighbors” define—and proceed to define—themselves and their position by way of each other. From risky points of interest resulting in interfaith marriage; to interreligious conflicts resulting in segregation, violence, and infrequently extermination; to techniques for bridging the interfaith hole via language, vocabulary, and poetry, Nirenberg goals to appreciate the intertwined previous of the 3 faiths as a fashion for his or her heirs to supply the future—together.
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