Monday, October 6, 2025, 11:30 AM – 1 PM EDT
Vernon Robbins, Professor Emeritus of Religion, Winship Distinguished Research Professor in the Humanities
“Bible People in the Qur’an”
The storylines of Adam, Noah, Abraham, Ishmael, Isaac, Jacob, Joseph, Moses, John the Baptist, and Jesus in the Bible reverberate throughout the Qur’an. These storylines, retold by Muslims five hundred years after the advent of Christianity and Rabbinic Judaism, give Islamic belief and practice a deep, rich relationship to both Jewish and Christian belief and practice. This presentation will explain the overall presence of biblical people in the Qur’an and give major glimpses of special aspects of the Qur’anic presentation of people like Noah, Abraham, Jacob and his son Joseph, and Jesus and Mary. It is Vernon Robbins’ pleasure to present this with support of a Heilbrunn Fellowship sponsored by Emory Emeritus College and Emory College of the Liberal Arts