Bible scholars dissect the gospels to separate the “Jesus of history†from the “Christ of faith.†This provocative study argues that the biblical characters of Jesus and David should be viewed not as historical figures; but as embodiments of Babylonian; Egyptian and Near Eastern mythology.From the Hardcover edition.
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0 of 0 people found the following review helpful. This was a great book but it is not worth $60By Mustafa Tair MuminI have been reading works of Imam Malik for 15 years. This was a great book but it is not worth $60.00. I remember paying no more than $20.00 for it.3 of 5 people found the following review helpful. Thorough study of Malik b. AnasBy Tron HontoDutton's work is fascinating for numerous reasons; but the most prominent among them is the amount of detail spent in examining the jurisprudence of the Medinans; specifically as represented by Malik. I found much of what Dutton wrote to be healthy balance to some of the more extreme interpretations of Goldziher and Schacht insofar as Dutton is able to supercede the naivity of the current traditional approach to hadith among Muslim scholars of Islamic law while simultaneously integrating the conclusions of critical scholarship. Essential to the work and one of its main contributions as well is the treatment of the Qur'an as a source for jurisprudence and legal reasoning in Islam alongside the sunnah; 'amal; ra'y; etc.
