Judaism, Islam and Christianity

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Edward Rothstein, Abraham’s Progeny, and Their Texts; For Jews, Christians and Muslims, a Braid of Belief that Binds. New York Times, Oct. 23, 2010 (exhibitiohn review).
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/10/23/arts/design/23faiths.html?_r=1&scp=1&sq=islam%20judaism%20history%20christianity%20review&st=cse

My comment:
(a) Emanu-El
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emanu-El
(Temple Emanu-El is the name of numerous Jewish synagogues. It is also spelled Emanuel and Emanu El in English. Emanu-El (עִמָנוּאֵל) means "God is with us" in Hebrew)
(b) Coptic Orthodox Church of Alexandria
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coptic_Orthodox_Church_of_Alexandria
(literally: the Egyptian Orthodox Church; belongs to the Oriental Orthodox family of churches [which is distinct from Eastern Orthodox Church, to which Tsarist Russia belonged]; current head of the church Pope Shenouda III, at Alexandra; St. Jerome records that the Christian School of Alexandria was founded by St. Mark himself)

(i) Copt
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Copt
(opening paragraphs and section 1 Etymology)
(ii) The Coptic Church in Egypt still uses Coptic language and Coptic alphabet (but few outside the Church do).

Coptic alphabet was adapted from, and looks similar to, Greek alphabet.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coptic_alphabet

(c) For Pentateuch, see Torah
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Torah
(The term Torah (Hebrew [for] "Instruction"), also known as the Pentateuch (Greek penta "five" and  teuchos "tool, vessel, book"), refers to the Five Books of Moses—the entirety of Judaism's founding legal and ethical religious texts; comnprising the first five books of the Old Testament)
(d) The English noun canon is actually Latin that means "ruler, rule, model, standard," from Greek kanōn.
(e) British Library
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/British_Library
(the national library of Great Britain and the world's largest library in terms of total number of items, including 14 million books (second only to the American Library of Congress); created in 1973--prior to this, the national library was part of the British Museum)
(f) ecumenism (n; Late Latin oecumenicus, from Greek oikoumenē the inhabited world): "ecumenical principles and practices especially as shown among religious groups (as Christian denominations)"

Both English definitions are from www.m-w.com.
(g) tafsir
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tafsir
(h) Talmud
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talmud
(i) Daniel Bomberg
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daniel_Bomberg
(died 1549; an early printer of Hebrew language books. A Christian, born in Antwerp, he was primarily active in Venice between 1516 and 1549)
(j) Septuagint (n; Late Latin Septuaginta, from Latin, seventy--irregular from septem seven + -ginta (akin to Latin viginti twenty)--from the approximate number of its translators):
"a Greek version of the Jewish Scriptures redacted in the third and second centuries b.c. by Jewish scholars and adopted by Greek-speaking Christians"

(k) Note to photos:
(i) High Holy Days
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/High_Holy_Days
(ii) Ketubah
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ketubah
(Hebrew for "document;" is a special type of Jewish prenuptial agreement. It is considered an integral part of a traditional Jewish marriage, and outlines the rights and responsibilities of the groom, in relation to the bride)  

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