from the Qur’ānic text through the use of a smaller font and the use of pericopes ensures that the commentary does not break the flow of the text. Reynolds has produced an excellent and attractive work: his commentary gathers together an enormous amount of data that will serve as a useful resource for anybody seeking to understand the Qur’ān in terms of the religious environment in which it first appeared and the symbolic universe of its earliest audience. By bypassing the rich (but here ultimately irrelevant) corpus of mediaeval Islamic Qur’ānic commentary—the Tafsīr literature—Reynolds allows readers to engage with the Qur’ān as a document of Late Antiquity, a dimension of the text that is too frequently neglected.

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书评：上帝与神学教学

从古兰经文本通过使用较小的字体和使用 pericopes 确保注释不会中断文本的流动。雷诺兹创作了一部出色而吸引人的作品：他的评论汇集了大量数据，对于任何想要根据古兰经首次出现的宗教环境和其象征性宇宙来理解古兰经的人来说，这些数据都是有用的资源。它最早的受众。通过绕过丰富的（但在这里最终无关紧要的）中世纪伊斯兰古兰经评论——塔夫西尔文献——雷诺兹允许读者将古兰经视为古代晚期的文件，这是文本的一个经常被忽视的维度.