The Qur’an’s Legal Culture
The Didascalia Apostolorum as a Point of Departure
by Holger Michael Zellentin
Paperback (Published)
(December 2013)
ISBN: 9783161527203
4.37 x 7.13 inches
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~ENG~Do the Qur’an and the Didascalia Apostolorum share a legal culture, as the laws and the legal narratives of both texts suggest? Holger Michael Zellentin assesses the close affinity between both texts in light of the chronological, linguistic, and religious differences that separate them, offering new insights on the communities of Late Antique Judaism, Christianity, and the Qur’an.
The Qur’an preserves aspects of an earlier Jesus movement that most Christian groups diluted or rejected. The Didascalia Apostolorum, a late ancient church order, records a significant number of the laws promulgated in the Qur’an, but does not fully endorse them when it comes to purity. Likewise, the Didascalia’s legal narratives about the Israelites and about Jesus, as well as the legal and theological vocabulary of the Syriac (Eastern Christian Aramaic) version of the Didascalia, recurrently show kinship with the Arabic Qur’an. The Qur’an, however, is not “based” on the Didascalia in any direct way. Both texts should rather be read against the background of the practices and the oral discourse shared by their respective audiences: a common legal culture. In this volume, Holger M. Zellentin offers new insights into Late Antique Judaism and Christianity, into the continuity of Judaeo-Christian law and narrative within Jewish and Christian mainstream communities past the fourth century, and into the community that the Qur’an first addressed.
- By (author) Holger Michael Zellentin
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