Encountering the Stranger

Prologue: Trialogue Is the Way

Leonard Grob and John K. Roth

i. In The Shadow of the Holocaust: Safeguarding the Stranger

1 "You Shall Not Murder": A Foundation for Trialogue?

John K. Roth

2 Whom May I Kill?

Zayn Kassam

3"Where Is Your Brother?": Jewish Teachings on the "Stranger"

David Patterson

4?Canopies of Hospitality: Post-Shoah Christian Faith and Making Room for Others?

Henry F. Knight

5 The Place of Non-Muslims in the Islamic Concept of the "Other": The Need for Rethinking Islamic Tradition in the Pursuit

of Religious Pluralism

Bassam Tibi

6 The Jewish Roots of Emmanuel Levinas's

Metaphysics of Welcome

Leonard Grob



ii. The "Other" in the Scripture and Tradition: Valuing the Stranger

7 Encountering the Stranger in Classic Rabbinic Judaism

Peter J. Haas

8 Encountering the Stranger: Aspects of Medieval Christianity

Margaret Brearley

9Noah and Others: Pluralism in Ancient and Modern Judaism

Rochelle L. Millen

10Normative Islamic (Qur'anic) Teachings on Pluralism: Reflections on "The People of the Book"

Riffat Hassan

11 Reflexivity and Tawallî between Jews, Christians, and Muslims

Bülent Senay

12 Encountering the Other: Enemy or Stranger?

Hubert G. Locke



iii. The Hospitality of Pluralism: Welcoming the Stranger

13 Ora

Henry Greenspan

14Bearers of the Rings: Reflections on Christian Spirituality and the Theology of Religions

Britta Frede-Wenger

15 Litarafoo: The Dialogical Method

Sana Tayyen

16 Loving the Stranger: Intimacy between Jews and Non-Jews

Rachel N. Baum

17 When Certainty Becomes Immaterial

Khaleel Mohammed

18 Interreligious Dialogue beyond Absolutism, Relativism, and

Particularism: A Catholic Approach to Religious Diversity

Didier Pollefeyt

Epilogue: What Should Be Remembered?

Leonard Grob and John K. Roth

Selected Bibliography

Editors and Contributors

Index?