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Law Beyond Israel

From the Bible to the Qur'an
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The Hebrew Bible formulates two sets of law: one for the Israelites and one for the gentile “residents” living in the Holy Land. Law Beyond Israel: From the Bible to the Qur'an argues that these biblical laws for non-Israelites form the historical basis of qur'anic law. This volume corroborates its central claim by assessing laws for gentiles in late antique Jewish and especially in Christian legal discourse, pointing to previously underappreciated legal continuity from the Hebrew Bible to the New Testament and from late antique Christianity to nascent Islam. This volume first sketches the legal obligations that the Hebrew Bible imposes on gentiles, on humanity more broadly and, more specifically, on the non-Israelite residents of the Holy Land. It then traces these laws through Second Temple Judaism to the early Jesus movement, illustrating how the biblical laws for residents inform those formulated in Acts of the Apostles. Building on this legal continuity, the study employs detailed historical and literary analyses of legal narratives in order to make three propositions. Firstly, rabbinic laws for gentiles, the so-called Noahide Laws, while offering a more lenient interpretation than the one we find in Acts, are equally based on the biblical laws for gentiles. Secondly, Christians generally appreciated and even expanded the gentile laws of Acts. Thirdly, the Qur'an reinvents Arabian religious practice by formulating its own distinctive approach to the biblical laws for gentiles, in close continuity with - and at times in critical distance from - late antique Jewish and especially Christian gentile law.

Author Biography:

Holger M. Zellentin is a scholar of Late Antiquity, with a focus on Talmudic and Qur'anic studies. The present volume is the product of a British Academy Mid-Career Fellowship and a Philip Leverhulme Prize; among other recognitions, Professor Zellentin has won an ERC Consolidator Grant, The Quran as a Source for Late Antiquity. He currently chairs the board of directors of the International Qur'anic Studies Association and has previously served on the steering committee of the British Association for Jewish Studies. After faculty appointments in Berkeley, Nottingham, and Cambridge, he joined the University of Tübingen in 2019.
Release date Australia
September 5th, 2022
Audience
  • Professional & Vocational
Illustrations
1 black and white map
Pages
366
Dimensions
160x241x21
ISBN-13
9780199675579
Product ID
35971879

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