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Parallels Between the Qur'an and Late Antique Judeo-Christian Literature (view source)
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'''''1. There were no Arabic copies of the Judeo-Christian scriptures available to Muhammad.''''' | '''''1. There were no Arabic copies of the Judeo-Christian scriptures available to Muhammad.''''' | ||
This | This argument ignores the Qur'an itself. which claims the charges were that Muhammad heard what was recited to him {{Quran|25|4-6}} or that he learned them from a foreigner {{Quran|16|103-104}}. Thus, the existence or otherwise of Arabic translations in Muhammad’s time is an irrelevancy. Moreover, epigraphic and historical evidence from the the time points to an Arabia which was awash in Greek and Syriac literature, and in which knowledge of both the Syriac and Greek alphabets were widespread, and both of these were used to write Arabic along with the Hismaetic and Safaitic scripts <ref>Al-Jallad. 2020. The Linguistic Landscape of pre-Islamic Arabia pages 117-124 </ref>. | ||
'''''2. There was no center of Judaism and/or Christianity in Mecca or the Hijaz in Muhammad’s time.''''' | '''''2. There was no center of Judaism and/or Christianity in Mecca or the Hijaz in Muhammad’s time.''''' | ||
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'''''5. The Qur'an contains stories absent in the Judeo-Christian scriptures, thus the charge of borrowing is erroneous.''''' | '''''5. The Qur'an contains stories absent in the Judeo-Christian scriptures, thus the charge of borrowing is erroneous.''''' | ||
The presence of such extra-biblical stories doesn't really say much about the material which does have parallels with earlier Judeao-Christian history. | The presence of such extra-biblical stories doesn't really say much about the material which does have parallels with earlier Judeao-Christian history. | ||
===Corruption of the Previous Scriptures=== | ===Corruption of the Previous Scriptures=== | ||