Inheriting Abraham

<p><b>How Judaism Christianity and Islam have reimagined Abraham in their own images</b> <p/>Jews Christians and Muslims supposedly share a common religious heritage in the patriarch Abraham and the idea that he should serve only as a source of unity among the three traditions has become widespread in both scholarly and popular circles. But in <i>Inheriting Abraham</i> Jon Levenson reveals how the increasingly conventional notion of the three equally Abrahamic religions derives from a dangerous misunderstanding of key biblical and Qur'anic texts fails to do full justice to any of the traditions and is often biased against Judaism in subtle and pernicious ways.</p>