Books
Why we should read Dante as well as Shakespeare
By Peter Hainesworth, reproduced from the OUP Blog Dante can seem overwhelming. T.S. Eliot’s peremptory declaration that ‘Dante and Shakespeare divide the modern world between them: there is no third’ is more likely to be off-putting these days than inspiring…. Read More ›
Is the Bible perfect in all its historical details and ethical teaching?
This book is recommended by John J Collins, Professor of Biblical Exegesis and Interpretation at Yale University who has written the Forward (see extract below). It arrived at my office this afternoon. I immediately jumped to chapter 8 Jesus Was Wrong as… Read More ›
Just delivered to my office. Very juicy.
This volume contains an article recently mentioned on this blog The Hebrew Bible in Islam by Walid A. Saleh. It appears there is much else to devour.
When men are called “God” in the Bible
Surprisingly, there are a number of places in the Jewish Scriptures (aka the Hebrew Bible & Old Testament) where beings other than Yahweh are called divine or “God”. I draw on the extensive discussion of key passages in King and Messiah as Son… Read More ›
“The strongest of all warriors are these two—time and patience.”
Leo Tolstoy, a Russian novelist, died #OnThisDay in 1910
Just arrived in my office..
This is a fascinating book by two world-class scholars at Yale University exploring the divinity of Jesus in the Bible. This work is highly acclaimed by other scholars in the field. I recommend it to Muslims doing Islamic apologetics and… Read More ›
When Someone Asks If You’re Ever Going To Read All Of The Books You Keep Buying
When Someone Asks If You're Ever Going To Read All Of The Books You Keep Buying pic.twitter.com/ZR5G0ZsGUJ — Joël Franusic (@jf) October 4, 2016
“A man who was merely a man and said the sort of things Jesus said would not be a great moral teacher. . . . You can shut him up for a fool, you can spit at him and kill him as a demon or you can fall at his feet and call him Lord and God.”
by J. R. Daniel Kirk These famous words by C. S. Lewis beautifully encapsulate the Christianity of my childhood. They underscore how central Jesus’s divinity has been to the church’s confession of faith for the past sixteen hundred years. And… Read More ›
Review of Chapter 1 in Josh McDowell’s, More than a Carpenter
review by Kermit Zarley Josh McDowell is an evangelical Christian, a public evangelist, and an apologist. For decades, he was a traveling speaker for the para-church organization Campus Crusade for Christ, that ministers mostly to college students. I was involved… Read More ›
“Narratives of Tampering in the Earliest Commentaries on the Qur’an”
Thanks to Richard Zetter for lending me this book this afternoon.
Recommended Reading List: Islam
I have chosen this selection from books I have read over the years. Beginners: Abdel Haleem, trans. The Qurʼan (New York: Oxford UP, 2005). Laurence Brown, The First and Final Commandment, A search for truth in revelation within the Abrahamic religions… Read More ›
Confessions of a bookaholic
I’ve been out and about at a few bookshops this evening. I’m studying usul al-fiqh at the moment and this little book looked rather good so I snapped it up I know the feeling… At first I thought this was… Read More ›
Today I went to the famous Foyles bookshop in Charing Cross Road..
I didn’t buy this but its a translation of Harry Potter into ancient Greek! I already have this book but it’s an essential reference work. The best of its kind. This book documents the diverse and competing Christianities in the early… Read More ›
Problematic/controversial hadiths
Send your hadith questions to Professor Jonathan Brown. Click the screen grab. Jonathan A.C. Brown (born 1977) is an American scholar of Islamic studies. Since 2012, he has been associate professor at Georgetown University’s Edmund A. Walsh School of Foreign… Read More ›
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