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The Concept of History in Judaism, Christianity and Islam

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This volume investigates how the concept of history is understood, constructed, and theologically interpreted in the three monotheistic religions. In Judaism, historical consciousness emerges through covenantal memory, liturgical time, and engagement with catastrophe and redemption....
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  • 14 March 2027
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This volume investigates how the concept of history is understood, constructed, and theologically interpreted in the three monotheistic religions. In Judaism, historical consciousness emerges through covenantal memory, liturgical time, and engagement with catastrophe and redemption. Christianity introduces the notion of salvation history, reading temporal events as unfolding within a divine teleology centered on Christ. Islamic thought approaches history as both a manifestation of God’s will and a moral framework for human responsibility, with particular attention to prophecy, succession, and the interpretation of communal experience. Across the traditions, history functions not only as a record of the past, but as a medium of religious meaning-making, a site of theological reflection, and a source of identity formation. The volume explores scriptural, philosophical, and historiographical approaches, demonstrating how sacred history, linear and cyclical time, and eschatological hope shape each tradition’s understanding of human destiny. In doing so, it offers critical insight into the ways history bridges revelation and interpretation, memory and expectation.

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Price: $98.99
Pages: 190
Publisher: De Gruyter
Imprint: De Gruyter
Publication Date: 14 March 2027
ISBN: 9783112232811
Format: Hardcover
BISACs: RELIGION / Judaism / General, RELIGION / Comparative Religion
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Ramy Abdin and Georges Tamer, FAU Erlangen-Nuremberg, Germany.