Enormously helpful as a way not just into an unknown text but into another religious tradition.Adam Gopnik, New Yorker
Magisterial.Eric Ormsby, Wall Street Journal
A stunningly learned work, bringing together a truly impressive set of written, extra-Quranic witnesses and parallels to passages in the Quran.Jack Miles, Los Angeles Review of Books
[ A] clear analysis of the debates within the communities of religious scholars concerning the relationship of these scriptures, providing a new lens through which to view the powerful links that bond these three major religions.Salzburger Theologischen Zeitschrift journal
Gabriel Reynolds The Quran & the Bible fills a gaping hole to revelatory effect. . . . It contributes hugely to the ongoing project of anchoring the quranic texts to the bedrock of late antiquity. The impossibility of understanding the Qurans origins without reference to the context provided by Jewish and Christian scripture has never been more painstakingly demonstrated.Tom Holland, History Today, The Best History Books 2018
Consistently with his well-known scholarly approach, Reynolds concentrates his research and his analysis on the Quranic text seen as a Late Antiquity product. . . . This book would have attained its goal even if it simply managed to encourage students to get deeply involved with both Quranic and Biblical literature.Valentino Cottini, Islamochristiana
Gabriel Said Reynolds is one of the most accomplished, most exciting voices working in the field of Qurnic studies, and The Qurn and the Bible is his best book to date. This commentary will be read and re-read for years to come.Reza Aslan, author of Zealot: The Life and Times of Jesus of Nazareth and God: A Human History
This book fills a gaping hole to revelatory effect. Essential reading for anyone interested in the relationship between the Qurn and the religious context of late antiquity.Tom Holland, author of In the Shadow of the Sword
While both believers and adversaries tend to see Islam as a stand-alone religion, it actually rests on the Judeo-Christian tradition. Gabriel Said Reynolds demonstrates this with great erudition, by re-reading the Qurn in conversation with the Bible, in this impressive and thought-provoking book.Mustafa Akyol, contributing opinion writer for the New York Times and author of Islamic Jesus
Gabriel Reynoldss concise commentary on the Qurn text offers an indispensable key to many parallel Biblical and para-Biblical traditions and clarifies the Qurns unique relationship to these earlier traditions and texts.Fred M. Donner, University of Chicago
Gabriel Reynolds is one of the worlds leading Qurnic scholars, and this learned and readable commentary sheds great light on the religious impulses that shaped Islam at its beginnings and on the relationship between Muslims, Jews, and Christians in Muhammads day.Gary A. Anderson, author of Charity: The Place of the Poor in the Biblical Tradition
