Idea of Semitic Monotheism - The Rise and Fall of a Scholarly Myth

This work focuses on a central issue in the modern study of religion. It emphasizes the new dualistic taxonomy of religions had major consequences and sheds new light on the roots of European attitudes to Jews and Muslims in the twentieth century, up to the present day

List of contents

• Introduction: The Study of Religion and the Spirit of Orientalism


• 1: Varieties of Monotheism and the Three Rings


• 2: The Enlightenment's Paradigm Shift and the Three Impostors


• 3: Aryans, Semites, and Jewish Scholars


• 4: Cultural Transfers and Philologia orientalis


• 5: Semitic Monotheism: Renan on Judaism and Islam


• 6: A Jesus of White Marble or a Jesus in the Flesh?


• 7: Secular Scholarship in France: Catholics, Protestants, and Jews


• 8: From the Quarrel of Monotheism to the Babel-Bibel Controversy


• 9: Semitic Religion and Sacrificial Ritual


• 10: Sacrifice Compared: Israel and India


• Conclusion: Comparing Monotheisms


• Bibliography

About the author

Guy G. Stroumsa is Martin Buber Professor Emeritus of Comparative Religion at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, and Professor Emeritus of the Study of the Abrahamic Religions at the University of Oxford. His publications include The Making of the Abrahamic Religions in Late Antiquity (2015), The Oxford Handbook of the Abrahamic Religions (co-edited with Adam J. Silverstein, 2015), and Self and Self-Transformations in the History of Religions (co-edited with David Shulmam; 2002). He is also a series editor of the Oxford Studies in the Abrahamic Religions series, with Adam J. Silverstein.

Summary

This work focuses on a central issue in the modern study of religion. It emphasizes the new dualistic taxonomy of religions had major consequences and sheds new light on the roots of European attitudes to Jews and Muslims in the twentieth century, up to the present day

Product details

• Authors: Guy G. Stroumsa, Guy G. (Professor Emeritus of Comparativ Stroumsa, Stroumsa Guy G.
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 20.05.2021
• EAN: 9780192898685
• ISBN: 978-0-19-289868-5
• No. of pages: 320
• Subjects: Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Religion: general, reference works; Islam, Modern history to 20th century: c 1700 to c 1900, HISTORY / Modern / General, RELIGION / History, comparative religion, RELIGION / Comparative Religion, Christianity, c 1500 onwards to present day, History of Religion, Judaism, Religious intolerance, persecution and conflict, Religious intolerance, persecution & conflict, History and Archaeology