Metaphors of Death and Resurrection in the Qurʾan: An Intertextual Approach with Biblical and Rabbinic Literature

Metaphors of Death and Resurrection in the Qurʾan: An Intertextual Approach with Biblical and Rabbinic Literature

Abdulla Galadari

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Through extensive textual analysis, this book reveals how many passages of the Qurʾan define death and resurrection spiritually or metaphorically.

While the Day of Resurrection is a major theme of the Qurʾan, resurrection has largely been interpreted as physical, which is defined as bones leaving their graves. However, this book shows how the Qurʾan alludes to death and resurrection in a very metaphoric manner, though physically – for example, rebuilding a desolate town, typically identified as Jerusalem, and bringing the Israelite exiles back. At other times, the Qurʾan speaks of non-believers as spiritually dead, those who live in this world, but are otherwise zombies.

The author presents an innovative theory of interpretation, contextualizing the Qurʾan within Late Antiquity, and traces the Qurʾanic passages back to their Biblical, extra-biblical and rabbinic subtexts and traditions.

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• Funding provided by:
  Author

• DOI:
  10.5040/9781350244559
• ISBN:
  978-1-3502-4455-9 (online)
  
  978-1-3502-4452-8 (hardback)
  
  978-1-3502-4453-5 (epdf)
  
  978-1-3502-4454-2 (epub)
• Date of Publication:
  2022
• Published Online:
  23 September 2021
• Collection(s):
  Bloomsbury Open Access, Title By Title
• Place of Publication:
  London
• Printer/Publisher:
  Bloomsbury Academic
• Edition:
  First published
• Identifier:
  b-9781350244559
• Buy in Other Formats:
  bloomsbury.com/9781350244528

 

Front matter

• Introduction
  1–6
• 1. Concepts of the Afterlife
  7–22
• 2. Terminologies of Life
  23–36
• 3. Terminologies of Death
  37–44
• 4. Death
  45–54
• 5. Life
  55–74
• 6. The Vivid Portrayal of Physical Resurrection in Qurʾan 2:259
  75–98
• 7. The Portrayal of Physical Resurrection in Qurʾan 2:260
  99–118
• 8. The Metaphor of Physical Resurrection
  119–126
• 9. The Red Cow and Bringing Back the Dead
  127–146
• 10. Conclusion: Death and Resurrection in the Qurʾan
  147–150

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