The quest for a common humanity human dignity and otherness in the religious traditions of the Mediterranean /
The worldview that all human beings belong to one big family has, in the history of religions, never been taken for granted. Moreover, human rights are a modern notion that should not be projected back onto the sacred texts of Judaism, Christianity, and Islam. However, from the Hellenistic period on...
Format: eBook
Language: English
Published:
Leiden ; Boston :
Brill,
2011.
Series:
Numen Book Series
134.
Numen Book Series Online, ISBN: 9789004380837.
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Call Number: BL687 .Q47 2011
- Preliminary Material
- Introduction
- Models of the Relationship between God and Human in 'Paganism' /
- Natale Spineto
- The Quest for a Rabbinic Perception of a Common Humanity /
- Matthias Morgenstern
- 'God created Adam in his likeness' in the Muslim Tradition /
- Lutz Richter-Bernburg
- Paul's Anthropology and Its Contribution to the Formation of Humanity in the Perspective of Reformation Theology /
- Hans-Peter Grosshans
- Between the Noahide Laws and Israelite-Edomite Brotherhood: Paradigms of Humanity in Modern Jewish Orthodoxy /
- Matthias Morgenstern
- The Lucan Parable of the Good Samaritan and Its Interpretations in Christian Antiquity /
- Claudio Gianotto
- Inquiry into the Patristic Interpretations and Usages of Psalm 138 (139):21-22 /
- Florence Bouet
- The Other in the Spirituality of the Desert Fathers /
- Fabrizio Vecoli
- Variations on Religious Otherness through Throne, Altar, and Monastic School (Ostrogoth Italy, 6th century) /
- Teresa Sardella
- 'How am I to love the one who hates me?' Love for One's Enemy, Persecution and Human Rights in Maximus the Confessor /
- Christian Boudignon
- The Theological Majlis and Religious Otherness in Medieval Islam /
- Yossef Soffer
- The Binding of Isaac: A Different Jewish Reading /
- Edouard Robberechts
- The Value of Human Life according to the Muslim Narrative of Abraham's Sacrifice: The Example of Ibn 'Arabī /
- Ismail Taspinar
- On Human Dignity /
- David Novak
- Philo's Therapeutae and Essenes: A Precedent for the Exceptional Condemnation of Slavery in Gregory of Nyssa? /
- Sharon Weisser
- Assistance to the Shipwrecked as a Paradigm of Humaneness in the Ancient World
- 'God has ordained excellence in all things; when you put to death, do so after a decorous manner': The Implementation of Mandatory Penalties (al-Ḥudūd) in Muslim Law /
- Éric Chaumont
- Re(dis)covering Humanity: The Catholic Church and Human Rights /
- Gianmaria Zamagni
- Index of Ancient Texts
- Index of Persons.