Het verlossende woord: Jezus en de Tora

Rede ter gelegenheid van het afscheid als docente Semitische talen en rabbinica en als bijzonder hoogleraar Jodendom en joods-christelijke relaties aan de PThU op 19 december 2016 te Amsterdam. NB. Op omslag staat abusievelijk 19 november 2016

Religious Stories in transformation: Conflict, Revision and Reception

In Religious Stories in Transformation: Conflict, Revision and Reception, the editors present a collection of essays that reveal both the many similarities and the poignant differences between ancient myths in Judaism, Christianity, Islam, and modern secular culture and how these stories were incorporated and adapted over time. This rich multidisciplinary research demonstrates not only how stories in different religions and cultures are interesting in their own right, but also that the process of transformation in particular deserves scholarly interest. It is through the changes in the stories that the particular identity of each religion comes to the fore most strikingly

The infallibility of the prophets and the fallible Jesus in islam: On the Transformation of a Jewish Story in to an Islamic anti-Christian Islamic Polemic

The Talmudic story of an astrologue who wrongly predicts someone's death and a Rabbi who refutes him has been transformed into an islamic story of Jesus. Charity delivers from death