Tag: Asif Iqbal
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The Three Different Jesuses
(I) JESUS IN JUDAISM * LIFE: – Establishing the time of the “Jewish Jesus”: The reference to Jesus in the Talmud is by the title: “Yeshu Ha-Notzri,” but according to Jewish chronology, he lived at the time when Joshua Ben Perakhyah led the Sanhedrincirca 150 BCE; see, for instance, Sanhedrin 107b and, therefore, predated Jesus…
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The Event of Worship to the Golden Calf
The Israelites repented about worshipping the golden calf BEFORE Moses returned from the mountain [7:149], yet they refused to repent but rather continued to worship the calf until Moses came back [20:91]. Does Aaron share in their guilt? No [20:85-90], yes [20:92, 7:151].
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A Medieval Christian Patriarch on Prophet Muhammad
The following is an extract from the allocution of Patriarch Timothy I before the Caliph al-Mahdi on how he viewed the Prophet Muhammad(P). I guess Christians back then were not as intolerant of other faiths as how it might appear from their polemical websites such as “Answering Islam”. It is entitled: Timothy’s Apology for Christianity,…