Encountering the Stranger: A Jewish-Christian-Muslim Trialogue

Contents

Contents Prologue: Trialogue Is the Way xi Leonard Grob and John K. Roth I. In the Shadow of the Holocaust: Safeguarding the Stranger 1 “You Shall Not Murder”: A Foundation for Trialogue? 9 John K. Roth 2 Whom May I Kill? 24 Zayn Kassam 3 “Where Is Your Brother?”: Jewish Teachings on the “Stranger” 38 David Patterson 4 Canopies of Hospitality: Post-Shoah Christian Faith and Making Room for Others 50 Henry F. Knight 5 The Place of Non-Muslims in the Islamic Concept of the “Other”: The Need for Rethinking Islamic Tradition in the Pursuit of Religious Pluralism 64 Bassam Tibi 6 The Jewish Roots of Emmanuel Levinas’s Metaphysics of Welcome 76 Leonard Grob II. The “Other” in Scripture and Tradition: Valuing the Stranger 7 Encountering the Stranger in Classic Rabbinic Judaism 97 Peter J. Haas 8 Encountering the Stranger: Aspects of Medieval Christianity 109 Margaret Brearley 9 Noah and Others: Pluralism in Ancient and Modern Judaism 123 Rochelle L. Millen 10 Normative Islamic (Qur’anic) Teachings on Pluralism: Reflections on “The People of the Book” 137 Riffat Hassan 11 Reflexivity and Tawallî between Jews, Christians, and Muslims 149 Bülent Şenay 12 Encountering the Other: Enemy or Stranger? 163 Hubert G. Locke III. The Hospitality of Pluralism: Welcoming the Stranger 13 Ora 182 Henry Greenspan 14 Bearers of the Rings: Reflections on Christian Spirituality and the Theology of Religions 193 Britta Frede-Wenger 15 Litarafoo: The Dialogical Method 206 Sana Tayyen 16 Loving the Stranger: Intimacy between Jews and Non-Jews 218 Rachel N. Baum 17 When Certainty Becomes Immaterial 232 Khaleel Mohammed 18 Interreligious Dialogue beyond Absolutism, Relativism, and Particularism: A Catholic Approach to Religious Diversity 245 Didier Pollefeyt Epilogue: What Should Be Remembered? 260 Leonard Grob and John K. Roth Selected Bibliography 263 Editors and Contributors 267 Index 276 ...