Salvation history

In Deutero-Isaiah, for example, Yahweh is portrayed as causing the fall of the Neo-Babylonian Empire at the hands of Cyrus the Great and the Persians, with the aim of restoring his exiled people to their land.

It understands events such as the fall at the beginning of history (Book of Genesis), the covenants established between God and Noah, Abraham, and Moses, the establishment of David's dynasty in the holy city of Jerusalem, the prophets,[3] as moments in the history of humankind and its relationship to God, namely, as necessary events preparing for the salvation of all by Christ's crucifixion and resurrection.

[4] Salvation history also plays a role in Islamic theology, such as in the narrative of the Jahiliyyah: a term for a morally corrupt era and social order that prevailed in pre-Islamic Arabia prior to the mission of Muhammad.

[5][6] A process in the Quran and later Islamic literature where pre-Islamic Christian figures are re-narrated as Muslim or proto-Islamic precursors to Muhammad's mission has also been understood in the framework of salvation history.

[7] Salvation history also occurs in Quranic narratives that heed the audience to consider the fate of earlier nations, destroyed by God for disobeying the messengers sent to them.