The Idea of Semitic Monotheism

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.

• 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

Necessary reading for those interested in the study of religion; changing attitudes to Abrahamic religions; Moses, Jesus, and Muhammad; or the development of philosophical underpinnings that led, in part, to modern anti-Semitism and Islamophobia.