“If the Scorpion Comes back, We will Wait for it with a Shoe”: Sheikh Yūsuf al-Qaraḍāwī’s Theo-Political Response to Trump’s Jerusalem Declaration

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Table of Contents v
3. Preface and Acknowledgements ix
4. Introduction 1
5. I. Confronting Ancient and Medieval Religious Traditions of Antisemitism
6. Antisemitic Positions in Christian Holy Scriptures: The Idea of Israel’s Election and its Challenge for New Testament Authors and for their Readership 25
7. “Children of the Devil”: John 8:44 and its Early Reception 43
8. Anti-Jewish Polemic and Jewish Bible Interpretation: Two Examples from Origen and Ephrem the Syrian 55
9. Scholarship and the Blood Libel: Past and Present 71
10. Is the Qur’an “Antisemitic”? 87
11. The Position of the Jews in Egypt and Syria in the Late Middle Ages 109
12. II. Confronting Antisemitism in the Study of Holy Scriptures and Related Writings in the Modern Period
13. The Impact of Johann Wolfgang von Goethe’s Discovery of the “Original” Version of the Ten Commandments upon Biblical Scholarship: The Myth of Jewish Particularism and German Universalism 123
14. The Interpretation of Second Temple Judaism as “Spätjudentum” in Christian Biblical Scholarship 141
15. The National Socialist Bible: “Die Botschaft Gottes”: Theological Legitimation of Antisemitism 155
16. Christian Antisemitism in Biblical Studies: Two Examples 185
17. Against the Mainstream: Muhammad Abduh’s Reading of Q1:7 and its Implications for Current Muslim-Jewish Relations 209
18. The Dead Sea Scrolls and Antisemitism: Past Results and Future Possibilities 223
19. III. Confronting Antisemitic Traditions in Contemporary Christianity and Islam
20. Antisemitism, Christianity, and the Churches in Europe 241
21. Antisemitism and Protestant Churches: A Quest for Reform 253
22. American Christianity, Jews and Israel: Antisemitism and Faith 263
23. Islamic Antisemitism: Jews in the Qur’an, Reflections of European Antisemitism, Political Anti-Zionism: Common Codes and Differences 279
24. Modern Antisemitism in Iran: Old Themes and New Trends 301
25. “If the Scorpion Comes back, We will Wait for it with a Shoe”: Sheikh Yūsuf al-Qaraḍāwī’s Theo-Political Response to Trump’s Jerusalem Declaration 321
26. Editorial Board 335
27. List of Contributors 337
28. Acknowledgements 339