Raphael Bonanno, OFM, ea., Jews, Moslems and Christians: Children of God (Jerusalem: Franciscan Printing House, 1988). Generally Christian, the materials here are most helpful as a beginning resource.

"Children of Abraham," Dialogue: A Journal of Theology (Vol. 29, Winter, 1990) is a special issue of the Lutheran quarterly.

A. Falturi, J. Petuchowski and W. Strolz, eds., Three Ways to the One God: The Faith Experience of Judaism, Christianity and Islam (Crossroad, 1987) provides essays on the function of prophecy in the three traditions.

John Hick and E.S. Meltzer, eds., Three Faiths - One God: A Jewish, Christian, Muslim Encounter (SUNY Press, 1989) collects reflections on the respective views of God, the earth and humanity.

F.E. Peters, Children of Abraham: Judaism, Christianity, Islam (Princeton University Press, 1982), while mentioned in my 1989 bibliography for In Our Time, remains the best single volume introduction.

Peters' three-volume set, Judaism, Christianity and Islam: The Classical Texts and their Interpretation (Princeton University Press, 1990) arranges basic texts topically to demonstrate the kinds of issues that have been the concerns of the three communities through their histories.

David Burrell, CSC, and Bernard McGinn in God and Creation: An Ecumenical Symposium (University of Notre Dame Press, 1990) present papers on the doctrine of creation in the three traditions.

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