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The Ambiguous Figure of the Neighbor in Jewish, Christian, and Islamic Texts and Receptions

242 Pages 2 B/W Illustrations

by Routledge

242 Pages 2 B/W Illustrations

by Routledge

242 Pages 2 B/W Illustrations

by Routledge

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This book examines an undertheorized topic in the study of religion and sacred texts: the figure of the neighbor. By analyzing and comparing this figure in Jewish, Christian and Islamic texts and receptions, the chapters explore a conceptual shift from "Children of Abraham" to "Ambiguous Neighbors." Through a variety of case studies using diverse methods and material, chapters explore the... Read more

Introduction: The Ambiguous Figure of the Neighbor in Jewish, Christian, and Islamic Texts and Receptions

Marianne Bjelland Kartzow

Part 1: Intersectional Biblical Neighbors

1 The Ambiguous Neighbor in the Hebrew Bible: A Survey of the Language of Neighbourship and the Narrative Function of the Neighbour in Hebrew Bible Texts,

Anne Katrine de Hemmer Gudme

2 When Bethlehemites and Moabites Meet: Ambiguous Neighbors in the Book of Ruth, Kristin Joachimsen

3 Neighbour, Townsperson, and Fellow Creature: The Regulation of Inter-Human Relationships in Palestinian Rabbinic Texts

Catherine Hezser

4 Monsters and Angels: The Function and Evaluation of the Intersectional Neighbors in the Gospels

Marianne Bjelland Kartzow

Part 2: Islamic Neighbors, Near and Far

5 Aw qala: ‘Li-jarihi‘. Some Observations on Brotherhood and Neighborly Love in Islamic Tradition

Oddbjørn Leirvik

6 The Ambiguous jār: Towards a Qurʾanic Neighborhood Ethics

Nora S. Eggen

Part 3 Negotiating the ambiguous neighborhood in peace and war, conflict and coexistence

7 Neighbour in the war: Saviour or murderer? Rethinking neighbourhood in Bosnia

Safet Bektovic

8 The childless woman and her neighbours: Exploring neighbourliness within a rural community in Cameroon

Gladys Ekone Wang

9 Imagining the Everyday Life of Jewish and Christian "Neighbors" in Late Antique Capernaum: Beyond Church and Synagogue—and Back Again

Wally V. Cirafesi

10 Narratives of the suburb as religious neighbourhood: How a local church and mosque in an Oslo suburb negotiate Muslim-Christian neighbourly relations

Anne Hege Grung