TY  - JOUR
A1  - Liberatoscioli, Davide
T1  - The new testament and the qur'an as depicted in Abraham Silveira's ‘Telling’ Mute book
T2  - European Judaism : a journal for the new Europe
N2  - Interfaith controversies and disputes regarding the role of reason in interpreting the Scriptures characterised scholarly discussion in the Low Countries between the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. The Jewish author Abraham Gómez Silveira contributed to this discussion with an eclectic body of literature. This article focuses on his Libro Mudo (Mute Book), which embodies his efforts to present the Jewish religion as the only rational one and the Christian dogma as irrational. In order to corroborate his reading, Silveira mostly bases his argumentation on non-Jewish texts. By selecting passages from the New Testaments, Christian religious commentaries as well as Qur'anic excerpts, Silveira aims to demonstrate that even non-Jewish sources prove the rationality of the Jewish theological system. The novelty of Silveira's approach consists in confuting Christian dogma by accepting the Gospels as reliable historical sources. In this argumentative structure, the Qur'an has a similar although not identical function.
KW  - Bible criticism
KW  - Libro Mudo
KW  - polemics
KW  - Qur'anic reception
KW  - Qur'anic translations
KW  - Abraham Gómez Silveira
Y1  - 2023
UR  - https://publishup.uni-potsdam.de/frontdoor/index/index/docId/64356
UR  - https://www.berghahnjournals.com/view/journals/european-judaism/56/2/ej560206.xml
SN  - 0014-3006
SN  - 1752-2323
VL  - 56
IS  - 2
SP  - 47
EP  - 61
PB  - Berghahn
CY  - Oxford
ER  -