Book Review: The Mission and Death of Jesus in Islam and Christianity

Abstract

From common ground to the end of Jesus' mission -- The final days of Jesus' mission in the Qurʼān -- "Someone was made to look like him" -- "Before the hour, Jesus will descend" -- "Would God have let his messenger be killed?" -- Judas crucified in Jesus' place -- Did early Christians in Egypt and Syria deny the crucifixion of Jesus? -- Sent down or raised up? -- "The days will come when the bridegroom is taken away" -- "The sons of humanity must be killed" -- "Let this cup pass from me" -- "The Son of Humanity will be handed over to be crucified" -- "And after three days rise again" -- "The Son of Humanity came to give his life a ransom for many" -- "In plain sight they see the return of the Lord to Zion."