Jigsaw Hermeneutics: The Putting Together of Past, Present and Future in Current Eschatological Discourse Relating to the Middle East

​Part of a series of seminars on Signs of the Times: Christians, Muslims and the Apocalypse

​Speaker on 12 May: Dr Ida Glaser
(Director, CMCS Houston; International Academic Coordinator and Founding Fellow, CMCS Oxford)

​THIS IS A HYBRID EVENT: register to attend online, or join us in person at CMCS Oxford.

​Abstract
This paper reflects on some of the parallels in methods of scriptural interpretation observed in some Christian uses of the Bible and Muslim uses of the Qur'an in relation to current Middle Eastern conflict.  It uses some of the findings of the 'Daniel, Islam, Apocalyptic' project, which is part of CMCS Oxford's 'Reading the Bible in the Context of Islam' project and is based at CMCS Houston.   Key characteristics of the material studied include the putting together of different kinds of discourse - for example, religious discourse and secular discourse - and of different parts of scripture.    The eschatological dimensions of the material exhibit a different kind of 'putting together' - of past scripture, present reality, and predictions about the future.    The paper offers an analysis of such 'putting together' using the framework of 'land, people, power' that the author has developed elsewhere.  

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​The topic of End Times prophecy in the Bible is a major focus of the CMCS Reading the Bible in the Context of Islam (RBCI) project on Daniel, Islam, Apocalyptic.

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