Day Apart How Jews, Christians, and Muslims Find Faith, Freedom, and Joy on the Sabbath

Name: Day Apart How Jews, Christians, and Muslims Find Faith, Freedom, and Joy on the Sabbath
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ISBN: 9780195165364

ISBN-10: 0195165365

ISBN-13: 9780195165364

Edition: 2007

Authors: Christopher D. Ringwald

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The Sabbath is the original feast day, a day of joy and freedom from work, a holy day that allows us to reconnect with God, our fellows and nature. Now, in a compelling blend of journalism, scholarship and personal memoir, Christopher D. Ringwald examines the Sabbath from Creation to the present, weaving together the stories of three families, three religions and three thousand years of history. A Day Apart is the first book to examine the Sabbath in Judaism, Christianity and Islam. A marvelously readable book, it offers a fascinating portrait of the basics of the three Sabbaths--the Muslim Juma on Friday, the Jewish Shabbat on Saturday and the Christian Lord's Day on Sunday--and introduces…

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List price: $27.00
Copyright year: 2007
Publisher: Oxford University Press, Incorporated
Publication date: 1/8/2007
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 336
Size: 9.29" wide x 6.30" long x 1.18" tall
Weight: 1.298
Language: English




From Sinai to Sunday : the holy day in three religions and three families



The birth of the Sabbath : from creation of Mount Sinai and into the promised land in 1100 B.C.E.



The fight for the Sabbath : from the Monarchy to Jesus and the age of the rabbis : 1000 B.C.E. to 200 C.E.



The Lord's day : easter to 1600



Islam's day of judgment



Citizens and Sabbatarians : 1600 to 1890



The Sabbath defeated, reborn, converted : 1890 to the present



The window on eternity



Give me a break : work, rest, equality, play, and place



The promise of peace : sharing the holy day



Random notes on keeping the Sabbath