The Ambiguous Figure of the Neighbor in Jewish, Christian, and Islamic Texts and Receptions

Introduction: The Ambiguous Figure of the Neighbor in Jewish, Christian, and Islamic Texts and Receptions-Marianne Bjelland Kartzow; Part 1: Intersectional Biblical Neighbors; 1 The Ambiguous Neighbor in the Hebrew Bible: A Survey of the Language of Neighbourship and the Narrative Function of the Neighbour in Hebrew Bible Texts-Anne Katrine de Hemmer Gudme; 2 When Bethlehemites and Moabites Meet: Ambiguous Neighbors in the Book of Ruth, Kristin Joachimsen; 3 Neighbour, Townsperson, and Fellow Creature: The Regulation of Inter-Human Relationships in Palestinian Rabbinic Texts-Catherine Hezser; 4 Monsters and Angels: The Function and Evaluation of the Intersectional Neighbors in the Gospels-Marianne Bjelland Kartzow; Part 2: Islamic Neighbors, Near and Far; 5 Aw qala: 'Li-jarihi'. Some Observations on Brotherhood and Neighborly Love in Islamic Tradition-Oddbjorn Leirvik; 6 The Ambiguous jar: Towards a Qur?anic Neighborhood Ethics-Nora S. Eggen; Part 3 Negotiating the ambiguous neighborhood in peace and war, conflict and coexistence; 7 Neighbour in the war: Saviour or murderer? Rethinking neighbourhood in Bosnia-Safet Bektovic; 8 The childless woman and her neighbours: Exploring neighbourliness within a rural community in Cameroon-Gladys Ekone Wang; 9 Imagining the Everyday Life of Jewish and Christian "Neighbors" in Late Antique Capernaum: Beyond Church and Synagogue-and Back Again-Wally V. Cirafesi; 10 Narratives of the suburb as religious neighbourhood: How a local church and mosque in an Oslo suburb negotiate Muslim-Christian neighbourly relations-Anne Hege Grung