Noah's Other Son: Bridging the Gap between the Bible and the Qur'an (2007 Brown), book

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Noah's Other Son: Bridging the Gap between the Bible and the Qur'an (2007) is a book by Brian A. Brown.

Abstract

"In his compelling book, pastor Brian Brown engages in conciliatory dialogue with Christians, Jews, and Muslims in an attempt to recover the beauty and value of Islam for the West. Noah's Other Son helps Jews and Christians understand the role that several biblical figures from their own traditions play in Islam. Do Christians know, for example, that Jesus in the Qur'an was speaking about Muhammad when he promised to send an Advocate or Comforter? Who would have imagined that Noah had a rebellious son who refused to get on the ark and drowned? There has never been a greater potential for misunderstanding between the Christian, Jewish and Muslim faiths, as the treacherous situation in which the world now finds itself. Brian Brown examines scriptural characters as a way of seeing Islam in its pure light, without the distortions of history or individual failings. Noah's Other Son provides an excellent starting point for Christian-Jewish-Muslim dialogue."--Publisher description.

Editions

Published in New York [USA]: Continuum, 2007.

Contents

Foreword / Salman Rushdie -- Introduction : people of the book -- Prologue : exploring common ground, from ground zero to holy ground -- Cast of characters : the English and Arabic names of scriptural personages -- Preface : translations, versions, sources, context, and spellings -- Higher than angels : Adam/Aadam -- Raising Cain : Cain and Abel/Qabeel and Habeel -- Noah's other son : Noah/Nooh -- Towering ambition : Babel/Babylon -- The patriarch : Abraham/Ibrahim -- The matriarch : Hagar/Hajra -- The archer's Jihad : Ishmael/Ismail -- The Hajj of life : Lot/Lut -- The covenant : Yaqub/Jacob -- The dream : Yusuf/Joseph -- The foundation : Musa/Moses -- Three kings : Saul, David, Solomon/Talut, Dawoud, Sulaimon -- Women who have names : Bilqis, Zulaika, Khadija, Fatima, Maryam, Asiya/Ruth -- Cameo appearances : Enoch/Idris, Job/Ayyub, Isaac/Ishaq, Joshua/Yusha, Goliath/Galoot, Aaron/Haroon, Elijah/Illiyas, Ezekiel/Zul-kifi, Aman/Haman, Ezra/Uzair, Jonah/Yunus, and children of Israel/Bani Israel -- The mother of Jesus : Mary/Maryam -- The temple : Zacharias/Zakariya, John/Yahya -- Son of Man, Son of God, Son of Mary : Jesus/`Isa -- The dome : Muhammad -- Epilogue -- Appendix I : Bearing faithful witness : United Church-Jewish relations today -- Appendix II : Thas we may know each other : United Church-Jewish relations today -- Afterword : the bridge between Judaism and Islam by Rabbi Reuven Firestone -- Acknowledgements -- Bibliography.

External links

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