Erasmus | Abraham's children

A quarrelsome, thoughtful family

A common patriarch won't necessarily reconcile Jews, Christians, Muslims; a common intellectual tradition might

By B.C.

A COUPLE of days ago, I went to Cambridge University to hear the inaugural lecture by the freshly appointed holder of an important new post: a chair in the study of the Abrahamic faiths (in other words, of the history and inter-relationship of Judaism, Christianity and Islam) endowed by Sultan Qaboos of Oman.

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