Cutting and Binding: The Hebrew Brit and the Qurʾanic Mīthāq as a Shared Semitic Covenantal Grammar
This essay reads the Hebrew brit (בְּרִית) and the Qurʾanic mīthāq (ميثاق) as functional counterparts within a shared Semitic religious-legal idiom of covenant—not as etymological cognates, which they are not, but as analogous instruments of solemn, binding pact-making between God and human communities and among those...