>The Jerusalem Institute for Advanced Studies has announced a program to study the interpretation of scripture through Jewish, Christian and Muslim perspectives:

A joint research project headed by Rabbi Mordechai Cohen of Yeshiva University and Professor Meir Bar-Asher at Jerusalem’s Hebrew University has launched a comparative study of early
Biblical scholarship in the world’s three major monotheistic faiths.

The study, which began September 1 at the Jerusalem Institute for Advanced Studies, examines early Jewish, Christian and Muslim strategies of Scriptural reading and their contemporary implications.

Researchers are focusing on ways in which Scripture was understood by – and at the same time shaped – the literature, learning and culture of the three faith communities. The project runs through February 28, 2011.

Read more about this program here.

Claude Mariottini
Professor of Old Testament
Northern Baptist Seminary

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Tags: Interpretation, Exegesis