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The Qur'an makes constant reference to the stories of the Judeao-Christian tradition. The references are familiar and sometimes in passing, and assume a great deal of familiarity on the part of the listeners. The | The Qur'an makes constant reference to the stories of the Judeao-Christian tradition. The references are familiar and sometimes in passing, and assume a great deal of familiarity on the part of the listeners. The audienceof the Qur'an was clearly one well-acquainted with the stories themselves and the Qur'an itself says that it is a "reminder" (73:19) of the message which has come before. The stories referenced are not only from the Bible, but come from a wide variety of literary traditions within ancient near east Christianity and Judaism such as the Alexander Romances, saints lives, and the Talmud. The stories (and even the names of the characters) often differ markedly from their original versions, sometimes in content and sometimes in emphasis. These stories are also preserved in secondary Islamic literature such as the Israeliyyaat, or the "Israeli" (Jewish) stories, and together these stories (and the Islamic accretions thereto) form the corpus of Islamic "Heilsgeschichte" or "holy history" and myth outside of the life of the prophet himself. | ||
==Islam and the Hebrew Bible Tradition== | ==Islam and the Hebrew Bible Tradition== | ||
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{{PortalArticle|image=Virgin Mary Double 2.PNG|title=Virgin Conception of Jesus in the Qur'an|summary=The virgin birth of Jesus is attested to in the Qur'an in somewhat graphic terms. |description=}}{{PortalArticle|image=Quranic Hell.jpg|title=Jahannam (Hell)|summary=The vision of Jahannam or hell | {{PortalArticle|image=Virgin Mary Double 2.PNG|title=Virgin Conception of Jesus in the Qur'an|summary=The virgin birth of Jesus is attested to in the Qur'an in somewhat graphic terms. |description=}}{{PortalArticle|image=Quranic Hell.jpg|title=Jahannam (Hell)|summary=The vision of Jahannam or hell finds origin in the original vision of the "lake of fire" in the New Testament but is far more graphic, drawing on the Christian accruements which the myth had accumulated between the writing of the New Testament and the career of Muhammad. |description=}} | ||
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{{PortalArticle|image=Paradise.jpg|title=Jannah (Paradise)|summary= Jannah or paradise is described both in the Qur'an and Sunnah, but the form it takes here is wildly difference from the asexual, cebral experience of heaven described by the Christian Scriptures and tradition.|description=}}{{PortalArticle|image=Ascension of Isa.jpg|title=Qur'anic Christology|summary= The Qur'an and the rest of the tradition describe Jesus as "Al-Masih" or Christ, but what this means in the Qur'an is very different than the orthodox Christian understanding of this idea.|description=}} | {{PortalArticle|image=Paradise.jpg|title=Jannah (Paradise)|summary= Jannah or paradise is described both in the Qur'an and Sunnah, but the form it takes here is wildly difference from the asexual, cebral experience of heaven described by the Christian Scriptures and tradition.|description=}}{{PortalArticle|image=Ascension of Isa.jpg|title=Qur'anic Christology|summary= The Qur'an and the rest of the tradition describe Jesus as "Al-Masih" or Christ, but what this means in the Qur'an is very different than the orthodox Christian understanding of this idea.|description=}} | ||
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{{PortalArticle|image=Alexander Horns of Ammon.jpg|title=Dhul-Qarnayn and the Alexander Romance|summary=Alexander the Great shows up in the Qur'an, not as the Alexander of history from the Anabasis, but rather the fictional Christian-before-Christ of the Christian Alexander romances.|description=}} | {{PortalArticle|image=Alexander Horns of Ammon.jpg|title=Dhul-Qarnayn and the Alexander Romance|summary=Alexander the Great shows up in the Qur'an, not as the Alexander of history from the Anabasis, but rather the fictional Christian-before-Christ of the Christian Alexander romances.|description=}} | ||
{{PortalArticle|image=Seven Sleepers.jpg|title=Seven Sleepers of Ephesus in the Quran|summary=The Christian martyr tale of the 7 sleepers of Ephesus, Christian youths who escaped persecution | {{PortalArticle|image=Seven Sleepers.jpg|title=Seven Sleepers of Ephesus in the Quran|summary=The Christian martyr tale of the 7 sleepers of Ephesus, Christian youths who escaped the persecution of a pagan Roman emperor by falling asleep in a cave for hundreds of years, is recast in the Qur'an as proof of Allah's divine power.|description=}} | ||
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{{PortalArticle|image=Bible Quran.jpg|title=Parallelism | {{PortalArticle|image=Bible Quran.jpg|title=Parallelism Between the Qur'an and Judeo-Christian Scriptures|summary=This series of articles illustrates how the Qur'an took stories from a wide variety of extra-biblical literature from the ancient middle east.|description=}} | ||
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