Adam and Eve in the Qur'an, the Bible, and Rabbinic Lit. | Original Sin | Lilith? | Dr. Shari Lowin

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In this episode of Exploring the Qur'an and the Bible, I interview Dr. Shari Lowin of Stonehill College. We discuss the figures of Adam and Eve across the Qur'an, the Bible, and Rabbinic literature. We discuss the Rabbinic and Qur'anic interpretations of the Biblical creation stories and the "fall" narrative.

Professor Lowin's research centers on the interplay between Judaism and Islam in the early and early medieval Islamic periods, c. 800-1200 CE, focusing mainly on the development of Jewish and Muslim exegetical narratives. She is particularly interested in how the Muslims and Jews living in Islamic societies interacted with one another as they contributed to and drew from each other’s exegetical corpus on shared scriptural forefathers. She is the author of, Arabic and Hebrew Love Poems of al-Andalus (Routledge, 2013). In the seven chapters of this book, she examines Hebrew and Arabic eros poetry (shirat ḥesheq/ `ishq poems) of religious scholars in 10th-13th century Muslim Spain. Her earlier work on Judaism and its relationship with Islam focused on the narratives of Abraham and on accounts of enemies of God in the midrash aggadah and in the ḥadīth. In one such study, a monograph entitled The Making of a Forefather: Abraham in Islamic and Jewish Exegetical Narratives (Brill, 2006), she demonstrates that while Judaism and Islam used each other’s narratives to create narratives of sacred history, they tweaked and adjusted each other’s accounts in their retellings.