TY  - BOOK
AU  - Renard,John
TI  - Crossing confessional boundaries: exemplary lives in Jewish, Christian, and Islamic traditions
T2  - The S. Mark Taper Foundation imprint in Jewish studies
SN  - 9780520962903
AV  - BL96 .R46 2020eb
U1  - 206/.1 23
PY  - 2020///]
CY  - Oakland, California
PB  - University of California Press
KW  - Abrahamic religions
KW  - Mediterranean Region
KW  - History
KW  - To 1500
KW  - Saints
KW  - Relations
KW  - RELIGION
KW  - Islam
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - fast
KW  - Electronic books
N1  - Includes bibliographical references and index; Introduction: Metaphor, method, and the three "sources" of hagiographic narrative -- Part one. Geographies shared -- Historical/anthropological perspectives -- Part two. Hagiographies compared -- literary perspectives: form, content, and function -- Part three. Dramatis personae: history, authority, and community
N2  - "Arguably the single most important element in Abrahamic cross-confessional relations has been an ongoing mutual interest in perennial spiritual and ethical exemplars of one another's communities. Ranging from Late Antiquity through the Middle Ages, Crossing Confessional Boundaries explores the complex roles played by saints, sages, and Friends of God in the communal and intercommunal lives of Christians, Muslims, and Jews across the Mediterranean world, from Spain and North Africa to the Middle East to the Balkans. By examining these stories in their broad institutional, social, and cultural contexts, Crossing Confessional Boundaries reveals unique theological insights into the interlocking histories of the Abrahamic faiths"--
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ER  -