The Voice, the Word, the Books: The Sacred Scripture of the Jews, Christians, and Muslims - Hardcover

Peters, F. E.

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0691131120 ISBN 13: 9780691131122

Verlag: PRINCETON UNIV PR, 2007

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Jews, Christians, and Muslims all believe that their Scriptures preserve God's words to humanity, and that those words were spoken uniquely to them. In The Voice, the Word, the Books, F. E. Peters leads readers on an extraordinary journey through centuries of written tradition to uncover the human fingerprints on the Hebrew Bible, the New Testament, and the Quran, sacred texts that have enriched millions of lives.


Bringing the latest Biblical and Quranic scholarship to a general audience, Peters explains how these three powerfully influential books passed from God's mouth, so to speak, to become the Scriptures that we possess today. He reveals new insights into their origins, contents, canonization, and the important roles they have played in the lives of their communities. He explores how they evolved through time from oral to written texts, who composed them and who wrote them, as well as the theological commonalities and points of disagreement among their adherents. Writing in the comparative style for which he is renowned, Peters charts the transmission of faith from the spoken word to the printed page, from the revelations on Sinai and Mount Hira to Mamluk ateliers in Cairo and Gutenberg's press in Mainz.


Peters is an acknowledged expert who has written extensively on these three great world religions, each of them an inheritor of the faith of Abraham. Published in conjunction with an exhibit at the British Library, this illustrated book includes beautiful images of the rare editions on exhibit and constitutes Peters's most ambitious and illuminating examination yet of the sacred texts that so inform civilization both East and West.

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F. E. Peters is Professor of Middle Eastern and Islamic Studies at New York University. His books include The Children of Abraham: Judaism, Christianity, Islam: A New Edition and the forthcoming The Creation of the Quran: The Making of Muslim Scripture (both Princeton).

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"The Voice, the Word, the Books is an important new work on the authoritative texts of the Abrahamic religious traditions. It amounts to a comparative study of the three major Western faiths by looking through a window--in this case the window of scripture. Frank Peters is preeminently qualified to write such a work."--Richard C. Martin, Emory University

"This is a thorough and rich book, the remarkable work by one of the great authorities of our time on the three Abrahamic monotheistic religions. It examines scripture--Jewish, Christian, and Muslim--from every conceivable angle. It is written in Peters's engaging prose and accessible to any intelligent reader."--Mark R. Cohen, Princeton University

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"The Voice, the Word, the Books is an important new work on the authoritative texts of the Abrahamic religious traditions. It amounts to a comparative study of the three major Western faiths by looking through a window--in this case the window of scripture. Frank Peters is preeminently qualified to write such a work."--Richard C. Martin, Emory University

"This is a thorough and rich book, the remarkable work by one of the great authorities of our time on the three Abrahamic monotheistic religions. It examines scripture--Jewish, Christian, and Muslim--from every conceivable angle. It is written in Peters's engaging prose and accessible to any intelligent reader."--Mark R. Cohen, Princeton University

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THE VOICE, THE WORD, THE BOOKS

The Sacred Scripture of the Jews, Christians, and MuslimsBy F. E. Peters

PRINCETON UNIVERSITY PRESS

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Contents

Introduction. The Voice from Sinai........................................................1Chapter 1. Sacred Words, Sacred Book......................................................5"Thus Spake Yahweh": What Is the Bible?...................................................7"Then the Lord Said": What Is the New Testament?..........................................17"Recite! in the Name of God": What Is the Quran?..........................................28Chapter 2. Book Shaping: The Making of a Canon............................................38From Biblia to Book: The Making of the Bible..............................................41The Making of a "New" Testament...........................................................51The "Old" and the "New" in the Covenant...................................................61The Collection of the Quran...............................................................67Chapter 3. Reciters, Rhapsodes, and Scribes: How the Bible Reached Us.....................80The Matter of Authorship..................................................................81The Higher Criticism of the Bible.........................................................83Composing and Performing..................................................................85The Scribes...............................................................................87From Recitation to Writing................................................................88Authors behind the Authors................................................................90Enter J, E, and Company...................................................................92The Writing Begins........................................................................94Jeremiah..................................................................................95Who "Wrote" the Books?....................................................................96Writing in Scripture......................................................................98The Levites...............................................................................100The Masoretes.............................................................................101Chapter 4. The Reporters: The Good News and How We Got It.................................105Jesus: The Setting........................................................................105The Gospels...............................................................................106Extracting Q..............................................................................107Dating the Gospels........................................................................108John......................................................................................109The Gospels as Documents..................................................................109From Aramaic to Greek.....................................................................110New Approaches............................................................................111Community Authorship......................................................................113Paul and the Rest.........................................................................114The Apocryphal Gospels....................................................................115Thomas and His Twin.......................................................................117Chapter 5. The Poet in Performance: The Composition of the Quran..........................120The Revelations...........................................................................120Biography and the Quran...................................................................122Approaching the Quran.....................................................................126The Cultural Environment..................................................................127Writing and the Quran.....................................................................128Writing in Arabia.........................................................................130Oral Poetry and the Quran.................................................................132Muhammad, Poet and Performer..............................................................133The Bible in the Quran....................................................................135The Mantic Seer...........................................................................137The Oral Performance......................................................................139A Change in Style.........................................................................140The Writing Down of the Quran.............................................................141Other Possibilities.......................................................................143Uthman or Later?..........................................................................147In Sum....................................................................................150Chapter 6. The Book in Mortal Hands.......................................................152The Word Made Flesh: Books and Bookmaking in the Ancient World............................152Scrolls and Books.........................................................................153Searching the Scriptures..................................................................155From Notebooks to Books...................................................................157The Christians Adopt the Codex............................................................159Toward a Standard Edition?................................................................160The Shape of the Page: Chapter and Verse..................................................164Dividing the Text.........................................................................164Marking the Text..........................................................................167Suras and Ayas............................................................................169The Sacramental Text......................................................................172Sefer Torah: Torahs and Their Arks........................................................174Washing Their Hands of the Christians.....................................................180A Matter of Etiquette: The Book in Our Hands..............................................182Chapter 7. In Other Words.................................................................189The Loss of God's Tongue..................................................................190Targums and Methurgemans..................................................................192Scripture for the Hellenized: The Septuagint..............................................195Origen: Multitasking the Bible............................................................198From Old Latin to the Vulgate.............................................................200Hebraica Veritas and the Latin West.......................................................203The Polyglot..............................................................................208Enter the Humanists.......................................................................210Translating the Untranslatable Quran......................................................214Chapter 8. Picturing the Word.............................................................219The Rabbis and the Second...

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• Verlag: PRINCETON UNIV PR
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2007
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 0691131120
• ISBN 13: 9780691131122
• Einband: Gebundene Ausgabe
• Anzahl der Seiten: 292
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