This long awaited and timely book with a foreward by President Obama and scholarly reflections from inclusive Muslim and Christian theologians is a groundbreaking resource for all who would grow in understanding of their Islamic neighbours in relation to a shared scriptural and cultural heritage. For too long Christians and Muslims have been kept apart by hundreds of years legacy of prejudice. This book lays a foundation for bridge-building and sows the seed for a renewed love of both Islamic and Judeo-Christian Scriptures in a reverential and illuminating side by side presentation. Neither is this a superficial comparison, but an informed, brilliantly researched work, revealing a most resonant interpenetration of scriptural traditions and shared sacred stories. Neither does it shirk difficult issues raised by the texts, but sheds light on many contemporary controversial issues including the position of women (in both faiths), crime and penal law, and international law. This new work is suited to the lay reader as well as those with particular areas of expertise, and will be of great service to school religious education teachers, to those with academic and pastoral responsibilities at tertiary level, and within the work and ministry of the worldwide Churches. Inter-Faith Study and "lectio divina" groups should find in "Sharing Mary" the perfect resource for opening up dialogue and friendship. Every monastic and theological and Bible college library should have a copy, for it represents an historic acheivement comparable to when the scriptures were first translated into the vernacular, since this side by side presentation has never before been made available, other than purely in order to assert the supposed superiority of one faith over another, as anti-Islamic polemic during the Second Crusade. It stands therefore as an unparalleled resource for dialogue/ trialogue between three major Abrahamic world faiths, and is of further importance for those working at local, national and international government levels. The author Dr Marlies ter Borg will be in high demand as a speaker and adviser on all related matters, and as a highly trained but free-lance philosopher has the advantage of having had "no consituency, whose members might scold me, raise eyebrows or even remove finances" lurking behind her. Truly a prophet for our times.