Includes bibliographical references (pages 341-344) and index.

Cover
Law Beyond Israel: From the Bible to the Qur'an
Acknowledgements
Contents
List of Tables
Texts, Transcriptions, Transliterations, Translations, and Abbreviations
Map of Arabia in the Fifth and Sixth Centuries ce
Introduction: Law for Jews and Law for Gentiles
Law as Literature
Ten Propositions on Gentile Law
From the Bible to the Qur'an
The Bible
Late Antiquity
The Qur'an, Arabian Epigraphy, and the Islamic Tradition
Chapter Overview
Chapter 1. Blood and Demons: Genesis 9 and Leviticus 17 to Q 6 Sūrat al-Anʿām 145-6 and Q 5 Sūrat al-Māʼida 3 Chapter 2. Sex as Crime: Leviticus 18:19-26 to Qur'anic fāḥisha/faḥshāʼ (Sexual Transgression) and zinā (Fornication)
Chapter 3. The Poetics of Incest Law: Leviticus 18:6-18 to Q 4 Sūrat al-Nisāʼ 22-23
Chapter 4. Purity and Punishment in the Qur'an
An Outlook
1. Blood and Demons: Genesis 9 and Leviticus 17 to Q 6 Sūrat al-Anʿām 145-6 and Q 5 Sūrat al-Māʼida 3
Purity and Food from the Noahide Covenant to the Holiness School
Blood and Carrion before and after the Destruction of the Second Temple
Pure Food for Gentiles throughout Late Antiquity Pure Food for Gentiles-or Ishmaelites-in the Qur'an
2. Sex as Crime: Leviticus 18:19-26 to Qur'anic fāḥisha/faḥshāʼ (Sexual Transgression) and zinā (Fornication)
Sexual Purity Regulations from the Noahide Covenant to the Holiness School
Illicit Sexual Relations in the First and Second Centuries CE
Appreciative Attitudes towards Sexual Purity
The Expansive Attitude towards Sexual Purity
Sexual Purity Regulations in the Meccan Qur'an
Sexual Purity in the Medinan Qur'an
3. The Poetics of Incest Law: Leviticus 18:6-18 to Q 4 Sūrat al-Nisāʼ 22-23 Consanguinity, Affinity, and Exemptions: Major Trends in Christian Marriage Law
The Bible's List of Prohibited Relationships
The Qur'an's List of Prohibited Relations
A Legal and Literary Comparison of the Qur'an and the Bible
The Qur'an's Reiteration of Biblical Law in Light of Late Antique Legal Culture
4. Purity and Punishment in the Qur'an
Purity and Holiness
From the Holy Land's Defilement to Corruption in the Land
Punishment
An Outlook
Works Quoted
Index

"The Hebrew Bible formulates two sets of law: one for the Israelites and one for the gentile "residents" living in the Holy Land. Law Beyond Israel: From the Bible to the Qur'an argues that these biblical laws for non-Israelites form the historical basis of qur'anic law. This volume corroborates its central claim by assessing laws for gentiles in late antique Jewish and especially in Christian legal discourse, pointing to previously underappreciated legal continuity from the Hebrew Bible to the New Testament and from late antique Christianity to nascent Islam. This volume first sketches the legal obligations that the Hebrew Bible imposes on gentiles, on humanity more broadly and, more specifically, on the non-Israelite residents of the Holy Land. It then traces these laws through Second Temple Judaism to the early Jesus movement, illustrating how the biblical laws for residents inform those formulated in Acts of the Apostles. Building on this legal continuity, the study employs detailed historical and literary analyses of legal narratives in order to make three propositions. Firstly, rabbinic laws for gentiles, the so-called Noahide Laws, while offering a more lenient interpretation than the one we find in Acts, are equally based on the biblical laws for gentiles. Secondly, Christians generally appreciated and even expanded the gentile laws of Acts. Thirdly, the Qur'an reinvents Arabian religious practice by formulating its own distinctive approach to the biblical laws for gentiles, in close continuity with - and at times in critical distance from - late antique Jewish and especially Christian gentile law"--