Excursus B. Re-imagining ancient messianic roles: Prophets, messiahs and charismatic leaders in the literature of Second Temple Judaism and earliest Christianity

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1. Frontmatter I
2. Table of Contents VII
3. Abbreviations IX
4. List of Tables XIII
5. Foreword and Acknowledgements XV
6. Chapter 1 / Introduction: The Quranic Noah and the Re-mapping of Early Islamic Studies 1
7. Chapter 2 / Tracing the Apocalyptic Noah in Pre-Islamic Jewish and Christian Literature 21
8. Excursus. A Lost Apocalypse of Noah? 26
9. Chapter 3 / Noah in the Qur’ān: An Overview 28
10. Excursus A. Full text and translation of the quranic Noah narratives 35
11. Excursus B. Quranic allusions to Noah outside the quranic Noah narratives 49
12. Chapter 4 / The Quranic Noah Narratives: Form, Content, Context, and Primary Meaning 54
13. Excursus. Reworked texts in the quranic Noah narratives 61
14. Chapter 5 / Reading Between the Lines: The Quranic Noah Narratives as Witnesses to the Life of the Quranic Prophet? 63
15. Excursus A. The original story behind the Noah narratives in Q 11 and 71 70
16. Excursus B. Q 11:35,49 and the redactional scribal background of the Qur’ān 85
17. Chapter 6 / Reading Backwards: Sources and Precedents of the Quranic Noah 87
18. Excursus. A Syriac source behind the blessing of Noah in Q 37:78–81? 92
19. Chapter 7 / Reading Forward: From the Quranic Noah to the Muhammadan Evangelium 102
20. Excursus A. Ibn Isḥāq’s original Noah narrative 108
21. Excursus B. Re-imagining ancient messianic roles: Prophets, messiahs and charismatic leaders in the literature of Second Temple Judaism and earliest Christianity 110
22. Afterword: Reading Otherwise, or Re-imagining Muḥammad as a New Messiah 114
23. Notes 118
24. Bibliography 124
25. Index of Ancient Writings 138
26. Index of Ancient and Modern Authors 151