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Comparison of the Hebrew Writings and Bible (Genesis 37-42) with Quranic Sura Yusuf as Example for Cultural Adaption.
Haase, Fee-Alexandra
Haase, Fee-Alexandra
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Cultural ethics
Cultural/intercultural ethics
Religious ethics
Comparative religious ethics
Spirituality and ethics
Methods of ethics
General and historical
Theological ethics
Intercultural and contextual theologies
Intercultural theologies
Comparative religion and interreligious dialogue
Christian-Muslim
Sources, sacred texts
Theology of religions
History of religion
Philosophy of religion
Founders, leaders of religions
Cultural/intercultural ethics
Religious ethics
Comparative religious ethics
Spirituality and ethics
Methods of ethics
General and historical
Theological ethics
Intercultural and contextual theologies
Intercultural theologies
Comparative religion and interreligious dialogue
Christian-Muslim
Sources, sacred texts
Theology of religions
History of religion
Philosophy of religion
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Abstract
The text corpus we are interested in, the Quranic Sura Yusuf, is one of the various traditions of the story of Joseph narrated in legends and in the three books Torah, Bible, and Quran. While narrative parts of the story of Joseph in the Bible and Genesis/Hebrew writings and the Quran show similarities as a narrative without any dogmatic impact expressis verbis, we find in the Quran especially in the beginning section and the closing section of the Sura Yusuf additional text parts of this character. These parts are non-narrative and from the perspective of their function they have missionary aims glorifying the Quran and the religion Islam. While the Bible and Torah continue the narrative of Joseph with his second journey to Egypt, the Quran closes the narrative of Joseph after the first story. What we compare is the Christian Bible (Genesis 37-42) and Torah vs the Quranic Sura Yusuf. In the Old Testament the story of Joseph is told in the verses 37-50 of Genesis. The Hebrew Bible contains the narrative of Joseph starting with Genesis 30:24 and the birth of Joseph and ending in Genesis 50:26 and the death of Joseph at the age of 110 in Egypt. We can state that the Quranic narrative is the shortest one lacking the introduction of the birth and genealogy of Joseph we find in the Jewish text and the introduction of the Christian Bible.
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2008
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