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The Haman Hoax Paid Members Public
Jochen Katz Introduction The Qur’an contains several instances of “historical compression”, i.e. stories in which two or more separate historical events are combined to create a new story, or a character from one story is transferred or imported into another story. For example, in the Qur’an we
Discussion on al-Hajjaj Paid Members Public
From Jochen Katz <[email protected]> Newsgroups: soc.religion.islam Subject: Re: al-hajjaj revisited Date: Thu Jul 17 11:24:30 EDT 1997 Message-Id: <[email protected]> This posting is in response to From Metallica <[email protected]&
Rebuttals to Islamic Awareness : On The Nature Of Hadith Collections Of Imam Bukhari & Muslim Paid Members Public
Responses to Islamic Awareness On The Nature Of Hadth Collections Of Imm Bukhr & Muslim In a recent article, Khazraj, Ghoniem, Saifullah, and Hannan [who for the sake of brevity, will be referred to as KGSH] objected to a response that I wrote entitled Are There any Early Hadith? A
Rebuttals to Islamic Awareness Paid Members Public
Responses to Islamic Awareness Are There Any Early Hadths? Jochen Katz wrote [in a newsgroup posting]: "don't become true just by age. The claim that Jesus is God is a lot older than the claim that the Qur'an is from God. I only have to
Rebuttal to Mohamed Ghounem : Is the Gospel Originally in Greek or Hebrew? Paid Members Public
Is the Gospel Originally in Greek or Hebrew? Sam Shamoun Ghounem: The Books collected into the New Testament do not constitute the utterances of Jesus nor of his disciples. Jesus was of Jewish ancestry and so were his disciples. If any of Jesus' utterances were to be found preserved
The Qur'an: Grammatical Errors Paid Members Public
Copyright 1996 by M. Rafiqul-Haqq and P. Newton. All rights reserved. Muslims believe that Allah revealed a book to each of Abraham, Moses, David and Jesus. "But the Book of the prophet Abraham was lost. The Books of David (the Psalms), Moses (the Torah), and Jesus (the Gospel) were
Responses to Bismikaallahuma : Who Killed Goliath? Paid Members Public
Responses to Bismikaallahuma Who Killed Goliath? In this article Mohd Elfie Nieshaem Juferi wants us to consider the following verses as a contradiction in the Bible: In 1 Samuel 17: 51, we are told that David slewed the Philistine champion Goliath: Therefore David ran, and stood upon the Philistine, and
Responses to Bismikaallahuma : Who Fashioned the Golden Calf? Paid Members Public
Who Fashioned the Golden Calf? Mohd Elfie Nieshaem Juferi (MENJ) claims to present a contradiction in the Bible and challenges us in this article to answer the difficult question: So who was responsible for the fashioning of the Golden Calf, Aaron or the Israelites? That is a question which behooves