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Articles involving textual analysis, authorship, documentation, and scriptural composition.
The Bookend of John’s Prologue Paid Members Public
The biblical authors, particularly the NT writers, employed a literary device known as inclusio, or a bookend. This is a literary feature (also known as bracketing or envelope structure/enveloping) wherein a passage begins and ends with the same or similar words, phrases, or themes. The author employs this to
To Write or not to Write? Paid Members Public
That is the Sunni Dilemma! According to Sunni writings, Muhammad expressly prohibited anyone from writing down his hadiths. The reason why he supposedly did this was to ensure that his words would not get mixed in or confused with the Quran: We must make a clear distinction between the Qur’
Talmud, Christian Writings & the Name Paid Members Public
The Talmud contains an interesting discussion concerning what should be done to the scrolls of heretics such as Christians, which contain God’s names. All emphasis will be mine. תָּא שְׁמַע: הַגִּילְיוֹנִין וְסִפְרֵי מִינִין אֵין
St. Jerome on Illustrious Men Paid Members Public
I quote a part of St. Jerome’s De Viris Illustribus (Illustrious Men), in which he writes in respect to some of the most influential Christians that ever lived, starting with specific Apostles of our Lord. The details he gives about their lives, works and even deaths are truly remarkable
Who Killed Goliath? Paid Members Public
The following is taken from the late Dr. Gleason L. Archer’s Encyclopedia of Bible Difficulties, published by Zondervan Publishing House, Grand Rapids, MI 1982, pp. 177-178. Who killed Goliath–David or Elhanan? 1 Samuel 17:50 states that David cut off Goliath’s head with the giant’s own
QURAN MSS & CARBON DATING Paid Members Public
I will be quoting from renowned Islamic scholar and Mariologist Stephen J. Shoemaker’s Creating the Qur’an: A Historical-Critical Study, published by University of California Press, Oakland, California 2022, Chapter 3, Radiocarbon Dating and the Origins of the Qur’an. Shoemaker demonstrates why carbon dating is inexact and cannot
Is the Qur’an Written in Pure Arabic? Paid Members Public
Foreign Words and Poor Grammar Disprove a Quranic Claim Timothy W. Dunkin Among Muslim claims for the Qur’an, the purity of the Arabic within the Quranic text is pointed to as a strong proof that the Qur’an was given as direct revelation from Allah. This is understood both
Some Grammatical Mistakes of the Quran Paid Members Public
It is common knowledge to native Arabic speaking non-Muslims (and even Muslims!), as well as scholars of Islam, that the Quran contains grammatical errors, which fanatical Muslim fundamentalists have tried to explain away, but to avail. For instance, according to several so-called authentic Sunni sources, the Quran contains at least