Refiguring Abraham: On the Prophetological Reframing of the Biblical Patriarch in Sūrat al-Anbiyāʾ

IF 0.4 2区 哲学 0 RELIGION
Jake Kildoo
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ABSTRACT This essay illustrates the Qur’an’s theologically creative conversation with Late Antique literature through an analysis of the text’s depiction of Abraham in Sura 21. After a short overview of modern scholarly engagement with the Qur’an’s ‘biblical subtext’ and some subsequent methodological remarks, I examine the ancient and Late Antique Jewish background to the qur’anic story of Abraham in Terah’s idol shop. Here, I elucidate the theological and exegetical concerns prompting these haggadic speculations about the patriarch’s life. In a word, Jewish exegetes employed this story as a way of demonstrating the distinct righteousness of Israel’s lineal forebear. Then, through comparative analysis, I show that the Qur’an takes up and redeploys this motif in the service of articulating its own prophetology, thereby subverting the earlier genealogical framing of this story. Notably, this repackaging of the Abraham-Terah narrative serves a polemical goal. In the last resort, the Qur’an is keen to show that its own followers – not Jews or Christians – are the true heirs of Abraham.
重新塑造亚伯拉罕:论Sūrat al- anbiyal - allah对圣经族长的先知重构
本文通过分析古兰经第21章对亚伯拉罕的描述,阐述了古兰经与古代晚期文学在神学上的创造性对话。在对古兰经的“圣经潜台词”和随后的一些方法论评论进行了简短的概述之后,我研究了古兰经中亚伯拉罕在他拉的偶像商店里的故事的古代和晚期犹太背景。在这里,我阐明了神学和训诂学上的关注,促使这些关于族长生活的模糊猜测。总而言之,犹太的注释家们用这个故事来证明以色列的直系祖先的独特的正义。然后,通过比较分析,我表明,古兰经在阐明自己的预言服务中接受并重新部署了这个主题,从而颠覆了这个故事的早期家谱框架。值得注意的是,这种对亚伯拉罕-他拉叙事的重新包装服务于一个争论的目标。作为最后的手段,《古兰经》热衷于表明,它自己的追随者——不是犹太人或基督徒——才是亚伯拉罕的真正继承人。
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期刊介绍: Islam and Christian-Muslim Relations (ICMR) provides a forum for the academic exploration and discussion of the religious tradition of Islam, and of relations between Islam and other religions. It is edited by members of the Department of Theology and Religion, University of Birmingham, Birmingham, United Kingdom. The editors welcome articles on all aspects of Islam, and particularly on: •the religion and culture of Islam, historical and contemporary •Islam and its relations with other faiths and ideologies •Christian-Muslim relations. Islam and Christian-Muslim Relations is a refereed, academic journal. It publishes articles, documentation and reviews.
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