Catatan Review Esack Tentang Wansbrough

Sambungan catatan bacaan buku Esack page 141.

Satu contoh review oleh Esack tentang buku tulisan Wansbrough;

In reading Wansbrough I found it curious that many of the terms that he readily applies to the Qur'anic Tafsir tradition, (haggadic, halakhic, masoretic, etc.) are explained in The Shorter Oxford English Dictionary, exclusively in terms of Jewish tradition.

In other words, there is little or no meaning to them outside this tradition. Wansbrough's persistence in the employment these terms, in addition to the intended point that the Qur'an is a product of Jewish scriptural tradition, also has the effect of highlighting the Qur'anic tradition's supposed emptiness.

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