MrWhatsit is working on a Venn diagram that displays Judaism, Christianity, and Islam. So what he needs is to be able to include commonalities between each pair of religions that are not shared by the third. For instance, the Judaism-and-Islam-but-not-Christianity portion of the diagram could include, “Does not eat pork”; “men cover hair when praying”, and so forth.
He’s having some trouble with the Christianity-and-Islam-but-not-Judaism section; does anyone have any suggestions? Feel free to throw out suggestions for the other parts of the diagram as well.
And, before anyone asks, he’s working on it as a learning aid for the junior high kids he’s teaching right now.
All three: the Bible (the Qu’ran is supposed to be the last chapters, rather than an outright replacement), a unitary higher power, angels (Gabriel, at least, is common to all three), revelations on a hill (the Sermon of the Mount, the passing down of the Commandments, and the Archangel’s revelation of the Word to Mohammed on Mount Sinai, (I think)), geographic proximity obviously.
Christianity/Islam: Heaven and hell… I don’t exactly understand the specifics of the Jewish conception of the afterlife, but if I’m getting this right, there isn’t one(?)
According to Islam, Muhammad is the Seal of the Prophets, and as such the Qur’an is the final word. As Jesus annulled the Jewish dietary laws, so too does Muhammad’s revelation replace previous scriptures (according to Islam).
That is not surprising since Islam and Christianity will have the smallest overlap.
In addition to the points made:
Each has a Scripture that goes beyond (in their view) the Jewish Tanakh (although their scriptures, themselves, do not overlap).
(Connected to the previous point) Each recognizes prophecy and Divine Revelation beyond that recorded in the Jewish Tanakh.
Christianity and Islam are both missionary religions that command believers to proselytize (to greater or lesser degrees) while Judaism does not engage in proselytization.
Got to be careful about that word “holy.” Christians believe that Jesus was the son of God and was the Savior. Muslims believe that Jesus was a prophet of God but not of divine nature nor a savior.
Of course, from the Islamic point of view, Islam replaces or absorbs the two prior monotheisms of Judaism and Christianity. You’d be looking at three (nearly) concentric circles. This may seem irreverent, but you can actually think of Islam as Judaism Version 3 (which makes Christianity Judaism Version 2). Or maybe Babylonian Mythos Version 8.3b.