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(And We breathed into it (private part) through Our Ruh,) meaning, through the angel Jibril. Allah sent the angel Jibril to Maryam, and he came to her in the shape of a man in every respect. Allah commanded him to blow into a gap of her garment and that breath went into her womb through her private part; this is how `Isa was conceived.}} | (And We breathed into it (private part) through Our Ruh,) meaning, through the angel Jibril. Allah sent the angel Jibril to Maryam, and he came to her in the shape of a man in every respect. Allah commanded him to blow into a gap of her garment and that breath went into her womb through her private part; this is how `Isa was conceived.}} | ||
=== The name ʿĪsā === | |||
The name ʿĪsā does not appear to be the Arabised version of Jesus's (real) Hebrew name ''Yeshuaʿ'', Nickel (2017) notes ''The first thing the reader of the Qurʾān notices in reading the Arabic text of the Qurʾānic material about Jesus is that he is not called Yasūʿ, as one might expect from the Semitic milieu, but rather ʿĪsā. In terms of the Arabic root letters, the ʿayn and yāʾ seem to have switched positions.''<ref>Nickel, Gordon D. “''Jesus in the Qur'an.” pp. 289.'' The Wiley Blackwell Companion to the Qur'an, Second Edition, 2017, pp. 288–302.</ref> | |||
== The Messiah (al-Masīḥ) == | == The Messiah (al-Masīḥ) == | ||
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{{Quote|1=[http://www.gnosis.org/naghamm/2seth.html The Second Treatise of the Great Seth]|2="And I was in the mouths of lions. And (as for) the counsel which they planned about me against destruction of their deception and their foolishness, I did not give in to them as they had devised. And I was not afflicted at all. Those there punished me, yet I did no die in solid reality but in what appears.....For my death which they think happened, (happened) to them in their error and blindness. They nailed their man up to their death. For their minds did not see me, for they were deaf and blind. But in doing these things, they render judgment against themselves...For when I came down no one saw me. For I kept changing my forms above, transforming from appearance to appearance.}} | {{Quote|1=[http://www.gnosis.org/naghamm/2seth.html The Second Treatise of the Great Seth]|2="And I was in the mouths of lions. And (as for) the counsel which they planned about me against destruction of their deception and their foolishness, I did not give in to them as they had devised. And I was not afflicted at all. Those there punished me, yet I did no die in solid reality but in what appears.....For my death which they think happened, (happened) to them in their error and blindness. They nailed their man up to their death. For their minds did not see me, for they were deaf and blind. But in doing these things, they render judgment against themselves...For when I came down no one saw me. For I kept changing my forms above, transforming from appearance to appearance.}} | ||
=== Jewish Writings on Jesus === | |||
{{Main|Parallels_Between_the_Qur%27an_and_Late_Antique_Judeo-Christian_Literature#The_End_of_Jesus's_Earthly_Mission}} | |||
More recent (2025) research by Professor Sean Anthony has shown strong parallels with only the 'appearance' of crucifixion to Jesus's enemies and end of Jesus's ministry on Earth with a Jewish anti-gospel work known in modern scholarship as Toledot Yeshu (The Life Story of Jesus),<ref>Sean W. Anthony; ''The Early Aramaic Toledot Yeshu and the End of Jesus’s Earthly Mission in the Qur’an.'' Studies in Late Antiquity 1 May 2025; 9 (2): 151–185. doi: <nowiki>https://doi.org/10.1525/sla.2025.9.2.151</nowiki></ref> running as a counter-narrative to it by siding with the Christians views in the story, which he contends is a more likely source given the context of the passages appearing in passages criticizing the Medinan Jews' beliefs - with the motifs and counter motifs highlighted in the main article sub-section. | |||
===Canonical Christian Scriptures=== | ===Canonical Christian Scriptures=== | ||