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Regarding {{Quran-range|7|11|12}}, Gabriel Said Reynolds in his 2018 academic commentary on the Quran comments that the story of angels prostrating before Adam, which is not in the Bible, emerged from Rabbinic speculation on [https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Psalm%208&version=NIV Psalms 8:4-6] ("what is mankind that you are mindful of them, human beings that you care for them? You have made them a little lower than the angels and crowned them with glory and honor. You made them rulers over the works of your hands; you put everything under their feet"). He cites as an example the Babylonian Talmud, Sanhedrin 38b:<ref>Gabriel Said Reynolds | Regarding {{Quran-range|7|11|12}}, Gabriel Said Reynolds in his 2018 academic commentary on the Quran comments that the story of angels prostrating before Adam, which is not in the Bible, emerged from Rabbinic speculation on [https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Psalm%208&version=NIV Psalms 8:4-6] ("what is mankind that you are mindful of them, human beings that you care for them? You have made them a little lower than the angels and crowned them with glory and honor. You made them rulers over the works of your hands; you put everything under their feet"). He cites as an example the Babylonian Talmud, Sanhedrin 38b:<ref>Gabriel Said Reynolds, "The Quran and Bible: Text and Commentary", New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 2018 pp. 251-2</ref> | ||
{{Quote|[https://halakhah.com/sanhedrin/sanhedrin_38.html Sanhedrin 38b]|Rab Judah said in Rab's name: When the Holy One, blessed be He, wished to create man, He [first] created a company of ministering angels and said to them: Is it your desire that we make a man in our image? They answered: Sovereign of the Universe, what will be his deeds? Such and such will be his deeds, He replied. Thereupon they exclaimed: Sovereign of the Universe, What is man that thou art mindful of him, and the son of man that thou thinkest of him?}} | {{Quote|[https://halakhah.com/sanhedrin/sanhedrin_38.html Sanhedrin 38b]|Rab Judah said in Rab's name: When the Holy One, blessed be He, wished to create man, He [first] created a company of ministering angels and said to them: Is it your desire that we make a man in our image? They answered: Sovereign of the Universe, what will be his deeds? Such and such will be his deeds, He replied. Thereupon they exclaimed: Sovereign of the Universe, What is man that thou art mindful of him, and the son of man that thou thinkest of him?}} | ||
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“When Adam heard the devil say this, he cried out and wept and spake: ‘O Lord my God, my life is in thy hands. Banish this Adversary far from me, who seeketh to destroy my soul, and give me his glory which he himself hath lost.’ And at that moment, the devil vanished before him. But Adam endured in his penance, standing for forty days (on end) in the water of Jordan.”}} | “When Adam heard the devil say this, he cried out and wept and spake: ‘O Lord my God, my life is in thy hands. Banish this Adversary far from me, who seeketh to destroy my soul, and give me his glory which he himself hath lost.’ And at that moment, the devil vanished before him. But Adam endured in his penance, standing for forty days (on end) in the water of Jordan.”}} | ||
Reynolds notes that Satan's desire to plot against Adam in the above passage is because he was cast out for refusing to worship him. Reynolds cites a parallel in {{Quran-range|2|34|36}}, though a stronger parallel is {{Quran-range|7|13|18}} (especially v. 16 where Satan expresses his motivation).<ref>Gabriel Said Reynolds (2018) The Qurʾān and Bible: Text and Commentary pp. 38-39</ref> | Reynolds notes that Satan's desire to plot against Adam in the above passage is because he was cast out for refusing to worship him. Reynolds cites a parallel in {{Quran-range|2|34|36}}, though a stronger parallel is {{Quran-range|7|13|18}} (especially v. 16 where Satan expresses his motivation).<ref>Gabriel Said Reynolds (2018) ''The Qurʾān and Bible: Text and Commentary'' pp. 38-39</ref> | ||
Regarding {{Quran-range|7|23|25}} where Adam pleads for forgiveness and mercy, Reynolds comments on another parallel with this apocryphal work: "The idea that God forgave Adam is found in the ''Life of Adam and Eve''". He cites ''Life of Adam and Eve'' Armenian version, trans. Anderson and Stone, 28:2-4. Note that in {{Quran|2|37}} and {{Quran|20|122}} it is clearer that Allah forgives Adam after his plea. | Regarding {{Quran-range|7|23|25}} where Adam pleads for forgiveness and mercy, Reynolds comments on another parallel with this apocryphal work: "The idea that God forgave Adam is found in the ''Life of Adam and Eve''". He cites ''Life of Adam and Eve'' Armenian version, trans. Anderson and Stone, 28:2-4. Note that in {{Quran|2|37}} and {{Quran|20|122}} it is clearer that Allah forgives Adam after his plea. | ||