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{{Quote|{{Quran|9|29}}| | {{Quote|{{Quran|9|29}}| | ||
Fight those who (do) not believe in Allah and not in the Day the Last, and not they make unlawful what Allah has made unlawful and His Messenger, and not they acknowledge (the) religion (of) the truth, from those who were given the Scripture, until they pay the jizyah willingly, while they (are) subdued.}} | Fight those who (do) not believe in Allah and not in the Day the Last, and not they make unlawful what Allah has made unlawful and His Messenger, and not they acknowledge (the) religion (of) the truth, from those who were given the Scripture, until they pay the jizyah willingly, while they (are) subdued.}} | ||
=== Are Jews God's chosen people? === | |||
Yes - the idea of favouring one people over another for seemingly no apparent reason is strange and contradictory to begin with for a universal God. However this contradiction would have to be incorporated by a man claiming the former National Israelite God Yahweh (which initially had no relation to non-Israelites)<ref>This gradual change of an Israelite religion to a universal one is commonly accepted among historians, see: [https://www.britannica.com/topic/Yahweh Britannica Yahweh Entry] | Britannica | |||
To see an overview of the scholarly discussion of the history of Yahweh and the consensus, see e.g. Heath D. Dewrell's review of: ''Yahweh before Israel: Glimpses of History in a Divine Name''. By Daniel E. Fleming. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2020. Pp. xviii + 320 + 15 figures. | |||
https://www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/721377 | |||
And Lewis, Theodore J., 'The Origin of Yahweh', ''[https://academic.oup.com/book/37440/chapter-abstract/331575152?redirectedFrom=fulltext The Origin and Character of God: Ancient Israelite Religion through the Lens of Divinity]'' (New York, 2020; online edn, Oxford Academic, 20 Aug. 2020), <nowiki>https://doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780190072544.003.0006</nowiki>, accessed 14 June 2024. | |||
</ref> was universal, or at least related and relevant to the Arabs of his time. | |||
{{Quote|{{Quran|2|47}}|“O Children of Israel! Remember my favour which I bestowed upon you, and that I favoured you over all other peoples.”}}{{Quote|{{Quran|2|122}}|Children of Israel, remember My blessing wherewith I blessed you, and that I have preferred you above all beings;}} | |||
No, they are just like everyone else | |||
{{Quote|{{Quran|62|6}}|“Say: ‘Oh, you who are Jews! If you claim that you are favoured of Allah to the exclusion of mankind, then long for death, if you are truthful.”}} | |||
==People of the Book== | ==People of the Book== | ||