The Quran with Christian Commentary: A Guide to Understanding the Scripture of Islam (Commentary only)

by Gordon D. Nickel

Publisher:

Zondervan

, 2020

Overview

The Quran with Christian Commentary offers a unique introduction to the primary religious text of Islam. Alongside an easy-to-read modern English translation of the Quran, author Gordon D. Nickel provides in-text notes to explain the meaning of various surahs (chapters) and ayat (verses), their interpretive history and significance in Muslim thought, and similarities and differences when compared to biblical passages.

Additional articles on important topics are written by an international team of today’s leading experts including:

• Mark Anderson, Allah in the Quran
• George Bristow, Abraham
• Daniel A. Brubaker, The Place of Scales in the Quranic Reckoning
• David Cook, Jihad
• Linda Darwish, Women in the Quran
• Mateen Elass, Apocryphal details in the Quran
• Jon Hoover, Creation
• Ayman S. Ibrahim, Fighting and killing
• Matthew Kuiper, Da’wa, or calling, to Islam
• Peter Riddell, Salvation
• David Marshall, Divine punishment of unbelievers

Factual, respectful of Muslims, and insightful on issues about which Muslims and Christians disagree, The Quran with Christian Commentary equips Christians to interact more fruitfully with Muslim believers. Professors and students in courses on Islam and the Quran will find this to be an invaluable resource, as will pastors and missionaries who minister among Muslims. Written at a readable level, any Christian who wants to learn more about Islam and the Quran will find it to be a rich and informative introduction.

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Contents

Top Highlights

“Its seven verses play a central role in the five daily ritual prayers of the Muslim community.” (Page 33)

“Some of the elements in these stories are not familiar to Bible readers, such as the command to the angels to bow down to Adam. The Quran shows great interest in this aspect, recounting this part in four further sūras (15; 17; 18; 38)—in two cases without mentioning Adam’s name. Such extrabiblical details in quranic stories of biblical characters are often also found in Jewish rabbinic and Christian apocryphal versions of the stories. In this case, the details seem to come from the Life of Adam and Eve (fourth century AD) and the Questions of Bartholomew (third century AD). See ‘Apocryphal Details in Quranic Stories’ (p. 229).” (Page 40)

“The Quran that most Muslims use today reflects a decision of Muslim leaders in Egypt in 1924 to adopt one particular ‘reading’ of the text from among many possible and officially accepted readings.” (Page 13)

“From a scholarly perspective, the Arabic text of the Quran is not completely certain. Most Muslims use a version of the text that was determined in Cairo, Egypt, less than a hundred years ago (1924). The Muslim scholars responsible for this version chose one of fourteen different readings of the Quran permitted by Muslim tradition. This version was not determined after a careful study of the most ancient manuscripts of the Quran, but rather simply from Muslim tradition on the so-called Ḥafṣ ‘an ‘Āṣim reading.” (Page 24)

“The accusation in this verse is that Christians have taken the Messiah as Lord (rabb). This is accurate. The New Testament says, ‘If you confess with your mouth, ‘Jesus is Lord,’ and believe in your heart that God raised him from the dead, you will be saved’ (Romans 10:9). The Quran’s issue with the term rabb is that it implies the deity of Jesus and his supreme authority to command humanity how to live.” (Pages 209–210)

Product Details

• Title: The Quran with Christian Commentary: A Guide to Understanding the Scripture of Islam: Commentary
• Author: Gordon D. Nickel
• Series: The Quran with Christian Commentary: Commentary
• Publisher: Zondervan
• Print Publication Date: 2020
• Logos Release Date: 2020
• Pages: 670
• Language: English
• Resources: 1
• Format: Digital › Logos Research Edition
• Subject: Qur’an › Criticism, interpretation, etc
• ISBNs: 9780310534754, 9780310534730, 9780310534723, 0310534755, 0310534739, 0310534720
• Resource ID: LLS:QRNCHRSTNCMM
• Resource Type: Commentary
• Metadata Last Updated: 2022-09-30T02:33:17Z