Ebook: The Qur'ān in its historical context. 2 New perspectives on the Qur'an

Foreword / Abdolkarim Soroush -- Introduction / Gabriel Said Reynolds -- 1. Method in Qur'anic Studies: The Historian, The Believer, and the Qur'an / Fred Donner ; Studies in Qur'anic Vocabulary: The Problem of the Dictionary / Andrew Rippin ; Towards Understanding the Qur'an's Worldview: An Autobiographical Reflection / Nasr Abu Zayd -- 2. The Qur'an and Material Evidence: The Jews of the Hijaz in the Qur'an and in Their Inscriptions / Robert Hoyland ; The Usage of Ancient South Arabian and other Arabian Languages as an Etymological Source for Qur'anic Vocabulary / Hani Hayajneh ; Vowel Letters and Ortho-epic Writing in the Qur'an / Gerd-R. Puin -- 3. Qur'anic Vocabulary: Hapaxes in the Qur'an: Identifying and Cataloguing Lone Words (and Loan Words) / Shawkat M. Toorawa ; Tripartite, but Anti-Trinitarian Formulas in the Qur'anic Corpus, Possibly Pre-Qur'anic / Manfred Kropp ; Angels, Stars, Death, the Soul, Horses, Bows -- or Women? The Opening Verses of Qur'an 79 / Munther Younes ; Al-Najm (Q 53), Chapter of the Star: A New Syro-Aramaic Reading of Verses 1-18 / Christoph Luxenberg -- 4. The Qur'an and Its Religious Context: Al-Nasara in the Qur'an: A Hermeneutical Reflection / Sidney Griffith ; The Mysterious Letters and Other Formal Features of the Qur'an in Light of Greek and Babylonian Oracular Texts / Devin Stewart ; Does the Qur'an Deny or Assert Jesus' Crucifixion and Death? / Suleiman Mourad ; Early Christian Arabic Texts: Evidence for non-'Uthmanic Qur'an Codices, or Early Approaches to the Qur'an? / Clare Wilde ; Has God Sent a Mortal as a Messenger? (Q 17:95). Messengers and Angels in the Qur'an / Gerald Hawting -- 5. The Qur'an and Biblical Literature: Is There a Notion of 'Divine Election' in the Qur'an? / Reuven Firestone ; Lot's Daughters in the Qur'an: an Investigation Through the Lens of Intertextuality / Waleed Ahmed ; Joseph among the Ishmaelites: Q 12 in Light of Syriac Sources / Joseph Witztum ; Condemnation in the Qur'an and the Syriac Gospel of Matthew / Emran El-Badawi ; The Qur'anic Pharaoh / Adam Silverstein.