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Communicating the Word

May 5- 8, 2008

The seventh Building Bridges Seminar was held in May 2008 at Villa Palazzola, a Cistercian monastery near Rome. The proceedings were all held in private. The lectures and small group sessions focused on how revelation is understood and interpreted in the two traditions, addressing the themes of "particularity, universality and finality in revelation," "translating the word" and "methods and authority in interpretation." Much discussion stemmed from the study of relevant scriptural passages from both traditions. The conference proceedings were published as Communicating the Word: Revelation, Translation, and Interpretation in Christianity and Islam (2011) and are available in PDF form, provided by Georgetown University Press.

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