Books in the Oxford Studies in the Abrahamic Religions series

This book explores the story of the Israelites' worship of the Golden Calf in its Jewish, Christian, and Muslim contexts, from ancient Israel to the emergence of Islam. It focuses in particular on the Qur'an's presentation of the narrative and its background in Jewish and Christian retellings of the episode from Late Antiquity.

Why did dreams matter to Jews, Byzantine Christians, and Muslims in the first millennium? Bronwen Neil shows how the three faiths took the pagan practice of divining the future from dreams and melded it with their own scriptural traditions to produce a novel and rich culture of dream interpretation.

This study examines how early Christian writers drew on ancient Jewish and Greco-Roman traditions to develop their own ideas about purity, purification, defilement, and disgust.

An edited collection on the historical, religious, and cultural contexts of the origins of the Qur'an.

The book studies how the religious structures of late antique religion (in particular Christianity) forged the core elements that became identified with those of the Abrahamic religions after the birth of Islam.

This book examines the ways in which the Biblical Book of Esther was read, understood, and used in Muslim lands, from ancient to modern times. It features case-studies covering works from various periods and regions of the Muslim world.

This work traces the development of the term and category of the goy from the Bible to rabbinic literature.