F. E. Peters, a scholar without peer in the comparative study of Judaism, Christianity, and Islam, revisits his pioneering work after twenty-five years. Peters has rethought and thoroughly rewritten his classic The Children of Abraham for a new generation of readers - at a time when the understandin[...]
The world's three great monotheistic religions have spent most of their historical careers in conflict or competition with each other. And yet in fact they sprung from the same spiritual roots and have been nurtured in the same historical soil. This book - an extraordinarily comprehensive and approa[...]
F.E. Peters, a scholar without peer in the comparative study of Judaism, Christianity, and Islam, revisits his pioneering work after twenty-five years. Peters has rethought and thoroughly rewritten his classic "The Children of Abraham" for a new generation of readers-at a time when the understanding[...]
Combining the convenience of a dictionary with the depth of a history of philosophy, this reference book fills a great need and should prove exceedingly useful to all students and scholars of classics, philosophy, theology and linguistics. The book defines and translates key terms used by pre-Christ[...]