The Gospels in Islamic Context : Function and Content (Hardcover)

0.Introduction - Introduction: Readers, Texts and Contexts.??Part A: Foundations for Conversation,?The injil and the Gospels:? Meaning and Status.??1.Good News: Greek?euangelion, Arabic??inj?l?and Modern Qur?an and Bible Translations in Islamic Contexts.? 2.What are the Gospels? A Christian Reflection.? 3.In the Name of God: Balaaghi and the Canonical Gospels.? 4.Authenticating the New Testament Gospels from a Sunnite Perspective.??Part B: Seven Conversations,?1.??????????? Islamic Literature on Jesus:? Where are the Canonical Gospels?? 5.Biblical Allusions in Persian Literature: Persian Poets in the Footsteps of the Christian Tradition.? 6.A Colloquy of God with Jesus: New Testament Parallels in an Early Collection of Sayings of Jesus in Islam.??2.??????????? Translation:? Words in Context.??7.The First Gospel in Arabic: The Islamic Context.? 8.Kitab Suci Injil:?Its Significance for Reading the Matthean Nativity Story in the Indonesian Islamic Context.??3.??????????? Birth Narratives:? A Shared Story?? 9.The Virgin Mary's Birth and Early Life in Three Narratives:? New Testament, Qur'an, and Biblical Apocrypha.? 10.Redeeming Zechariah: Silence as Mercy in Luke 1 and Q3 and Q19.??4.??????????? Signs: A Shared Category?? 11.Miracles as Signs? Revisiting Jesus’ Gospel Miracles in the Light of Medieval Muslim Critique.? 12.Signs of God in the Qur’an and the Gospel of John: Persuading the Audience to Believe.??5.??????????? Barzakh and Paradise: A Shared Concept?? 13.The Qur?an and the Parable of the Rich Man and Lazarus: Crossing Over Barriers.? 14.‘Today You will Be with Me in Paradise’ ? Reading Luke 23:43 in Islamic Contexts.??6.??????????? Reading in context.??15.Respecting Mary: Woman, Mother or Inconsequential? Reconsidering John 2:4 in the Context of Islam.? 16.Chapter Sixteen ? Contesting the Meaning of the Sheep and the Goats: Variations on Contemporary Indonesian Christians’ Readings of Matthew 25:31 46.??7.??????????? Reading the Sermon on the Mount.??17.By whose Authority? Sayyid Ahmad Khan (d. 1898) and the Authors of the Christian New Testament.? 18.The Sermon on the Mount Reading Group.