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Interpreting the Bible and the Qur’an through Love
Scripture, Love, and Hermeneutics
Interpreting the Bible and the Qur’an through Love
Scripture, Love, and Hermeneutics
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Description
This book investigates the role of love as an exegetical resource for interpreting the Bible and the Qur'an.
Through surveying the ways in which love was used to make sense of the Jewish, Christian, and Muslim Scriptures, this book advocates and argues for a hermeneutical approach that reads the Bible and the Qur'an through the lens of love. Engaging various exegetical authorities from the Jewish, Christian, and Muslim traditions, Tareq Hesham Moqbel identifies numerous cases of love-informed exegesis covering diverse themes and exegetical techniques.
The exegetical dialogue presented in this book shows that the idea of love takes on greater meaning when studied from the standpoint of comparative exegesis. Moreover, by analysing this topic through a comparative lens, the book argues for a novel conceptualisation of love as an exegetical tool, and a reading ethic, that connects the Abrahamic scriptural traditions and can be applied beyond them.
Table of Contents
Acknowledgements
Conventions and Style
1. Introduction
2. Theoretical Framework
3. God's Love
4. Humanity's Love for God
5. Social and Worldly Love
6. Postscript
Bibliography
Index of Biblical Verses
Index of Qur'anic Verses
General Index
Product details

Published | Oct 16 2025 |
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Format | Ebook (Epub & Mobi) |
Edition | 1st |
Extent | 228 |
ISBN | 9781350424890 |
Imprint | Bloomsbury Academic |
Publisher | Bloomsbury Publishing |
About the contributors
Reviews
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Tareq Hesham Moqbel is to be thoroughly commended for his meticulous analysis of texts on love in the three major monotheistic religions. His use of the original languages to study the scriptures in question and the exegetes associated with them is truly remarkable. This book is a treasure-trove of insight in terms of understanding and perhaps experiencing love in the monotheistic traditions
Atef Alshaer, University of Westminster, UK