The Qurʾān - A New Annotated Translation - Arthur Droge
2 The Cow ۞ Al-Baqara
The Qurʾān - A New Annotated Translation - Arthur Droge
A. J. Droge [+]
A. J. Droge is the author of Homer or Moses? Early Christian Interpretations of the History of Culture and, with James Tabor, of A Noble Death: Suicide and Martyrdom among Christians and Jews in Antiquity.
Description
By far the longest sūra, it includes accounts of Adam’s fall, Moses and Pharaoh, Israel’s disobedience, and the religion of Abraham and his building of God’s ‘House,’ toward which prayer is now directed. Instruction on a variety of topics occupies most of its second half (on food, retaliation, wills, fasting, fighting, pilgrimage, marriage, divorce, usury, almsgiving, and prayer).