Qur'an and Bible 1 introduces students to the concept of reading the Holy Books together.  It then develops biblical and qur'anic understandings of sacred history through a study of the narratives from Adam to Moses.

We begin by considering the nature of the Qur'an and of the Bible, and how they are regarded by Muslims, by Christians and by Jews.  We then focus on the Torah, and ask how it is regarded in the New Testament and in the Qur'an.

The next stage is to develop skill in intertextual reading through a series of studies of characters common to the Qur'an and the Bible. This will be the core learning for the course.  Students will be encouraged to view the texts through their own and each other's interpretative traditions as well as to study the texts themselves.

We will then be in a position to reflect on the questions about interpretation that are raised by the texts and the traditions, and on how current readers from different faith traditions handle those questions. We will finish by considering what we have learnt about the nature of the Holy Books we have been studying.

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