BIBLICAL INTERPRETATION IN ISLAMIC CONTEXTS Conference: 1-3 September 2015

LIST OF SPEAKERS & TITLES

Shabbir Akhtar (CMCS Oxford) ‘The Limits of Inter-Faith Encounter: Four Models of Engagement’

Ida Glaser (CMCS Oxford) ‘Reading the in the context of : a paradigm shift in biblical theology?’

Michael Lodahl (Point Loma Nazarene University) ‘Theological anthropology and the problem of sin in the Bible’

Shirin Shafaie (CMCS Oxford) ‘An Intertextual Reading of the Joseph Story’

Danny Crowther (CMCS Oxford) ‘The Art of Crossing Cultures’

Dan Madigan (Georgetown) 'John's Gospel as a key for understanding the relationship of Islam and Christianity.'

George Bristow (PhD candidate, Free University, Amsterdam) 'Abraham in narrative worldviews'

Larry Ciccarelli ‘The Story of David and Bathsheba in the Bible and Islamic Texts: Muslim Interpretation in Light of The Doctrine of the Sinlessness of the Prophets (ismah)’

Khalid El- Awaisi (Al-Maktoum, Dundee)‘Qur’anic Stories of Prophets and their Biblical Context’

Mohammad Ghandehari & Mohsen Feyzbakhsh (PhD Candidates, University of ) ‘Facing Mirrors: The Complementarieness of the Biblical and the Qur’anic Narratives in the Case of Ishmael Promise’

Ekram Hennawie () ‘Responses to Religiously-Motivated Violence in the Epistle of James, the Qur’an and other Islamic Literature’

Seyed Ali Aghaei Abrandabadi (Corpus Coranicum , Berlin) 'God commends you to slaughter a cow: Q 2:67-74 as an allusion to Num 19:1-19 or Deut 21:1-9?'

Georgina Jardim (University of Gloucester) ‘Biblical Ruth as a Qur’anic Queen of Sheba: Completing scriptural narratives of foreigner assent’

Yelena Muzykina ‘The Sanctuary concept in the Bible and the ’

Nazirudin Mohd Nasir (DPhil, Oxford) ‘Constrained by scriptural polemics: ‘Abd al-Ḥamīd al- Farāhī’s reading of the Old Testament on the Akedah’

Martin O’Kane (University of Wales) ‘The Reception of the BibIical Ishmael (and the Rejection of Esau) in Islamic Tradition’

Maria Rodriguez ‘Innocence Betrayed: Undeserved Suffering through the Scriptural Lens of Job/Ayyub’

Ekkardt Sonntag (PhD candidate, Free University, Amsterdam) 'Son, brother, priest and wasta: a Middle Eastern interpretation of Jesus' role as mediator in Hebrews'

Dwight Swanson (Nazarene College, Manchester) ‘The Place of Purity in Faith’

Carol Walker (All Nations Christian College) 'David and the single ewe lamb: tracking conversation between two texts when they are read in their canonical contexts'.

Heiko Wenzel (Freie Theologische Hochschule Gießen) 'Jesus and the Torah: a comparison of Matthew 5v17-20 and Surah 3v50, 5v46 and 61v6'

Brad Willits (West Africa) 'Zephaniah for a West African Muslim Audience'

Ahmad Yunus (National University of Malaysia) '…And Narrate from the Children of Israel and there is no fault…”: Making Sense of the use of Israiliyyat in Muslim Scholarship