In April 2008 a conference was convened at Rice University that brought together experts in the three monotheistic religions of Judaism Christianity and Islam. The papers discussed at the conference are presented here revised and updated. The thirteen contributions comprise the keynote address by John Miles Foley; three essays on Judaism and the Hebrew Bible; three on the New Testament; three on the Qur'an; and two summarizing pieces by the Africanist Ruth Finnegan and the Islamicist William Gra