Reference and Identity in Jewish, Christian, and Muslim Scriptures : The Same God?

Dean Edward Buckner

ISBN 10: 1498587410 / ISBN 13: 9781498587419

Published by Lexington Books, 2020

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nach der Bestellung gedruckt Neuware - Printed after ordering - This book proposes a theory of reference--answering the question of whether Jewish, Christian, and Muslim scriptures refer to the same God--within a semantic framework acceptable to atheists and fideists.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Reference and Identity in Jewish, Christian, and Muslim Scriptures : The Same God?
• Publisher: Lexington Books
• Publication Date: 2020
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1498587410
• ISBN 13: 9781498587419
• Binding: Buch
• Condition: Neu
• Dimensions: 235W x 157H x 19D millimeters 235 millimeters width by 157 millimeters height by 19 millimeters depth
• Weight: 555 grams

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Synopsis

In Reference and Identity in Jewish, Christian, and Muslim Scriptures: The Same God?, D. E. Buckner argues that all reference is story-relative. We cannot tell which historical individual a person is talking or writing about or addressing in prayer without familiarity with the narrative (oral or written) which introduces that individual to us, so we cannot understand reference to God, nor to his prophets, nor to any other character mentioned in the Jewish, Christian, or Muslim scriptures, without reference to those very scriptures. In this context we must understand God as the person who “walked in the garden in the cool of the day” (Gen. 3:8), and who is continuously referred to in the books of the Hebrew Bible and New Testament, as well as the Quran. Further developing ideas presented by the late Fred Sommers in his seminal The Logic of Natural Language, Buckner argues that singular reference and singular conception is empty outside such a context.

About the Author

D.E. Buckner is a graduate of Bristol University, where he later taught philosophy. He has published in the areas of philosophy of language, logic, and medieval philosophy. He previously published Reference and Identity in Jewish, Christian and Muslim Scriptures: The Same God? (2020), examining the question of whether Jewish, Christian, and Muslim scriptures refer to the same God, within a semantic framework acceptable to atheists and fideists. Now retired from teaching, he lives with his family in Wandsworth, London. He is curator of the web site The Logic Museum, a repository of primary sources in logic and metaphysics.