Tag : Hebrew Bible

Was Ketu­rah the Wife or the Con­cu­bine of Abraham ?

Accord­ing to Gen­e­sis 25:1, Ketu­rah is described as being Abra­ham’s wife : Abra­ham mar­ried anoth­er wife named Ketu­rah.” The word used for wife in the Hebrew is…

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].

Yalqut Shamouni

An arti­cle post­ed on a Chris­t­ian web­site enti­tled Jesus in the Rab­binic Tra­di­tions is a good exam­ple of the lev­el to which reli­gious studies…

Allah is the​“Rim­mon” of Syr­ia ? A Reply to Chris­t­ian Mendacity

A mis­sion­ary under the Yahoo ! Groups nome de plume of Patri­ot Tim” has made an alle­ga­tion in a dis­cus­sion group by stat­ing that the Syr­i­an pagan idol RIMMON () as men­tioned in 2 Kings 5:18 is the same Deity as for the Mus­lims, who some­times call upon God as ar-rah­man (The Mer­ci­ful).

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Nabeel Qureshi (1983 – 2017): The Shock­ing Truth Behind a Man­u­fac­tured​“Ex-Mus­lim” Martyr

Nabeel Qureshi died at the age of 34 years old in 2017 from a rare and dead­ly form of stom­ach can­cer” on 16th of Sep­tem­ber 2017 with mixed reactions. 

Paul Says That Mark Is Futile : No Res­ur­rec­tion In Mark’s Gospel

But the first of the four gospels, i.e., the Gospel accord­ing to Mark, appar­ent­ly did not receive Paul’s memo. And this is a very impor­tant point as we keep in mind that each of the gospels were ini­tial­ly divorced from each oth­er and were writ­ten in dif­fer­ent local­i­ties for dif­fer­ent audiences.

The Gospels’ Accounts Regard­ing the Call of the First Disciples

So which is the cor­rect Gospel account con­cern­ing the choice of Jesus’ first apos­tles ? The fol­low­ing Bible con­tra­dic­tion was extract­ed from an unpub­lished the­sis enti­tled Ibn Hazm On The Doc­trine of Tahrif which cites Kitab al-Fasl fi al-Milal wa al-Ahwa’ wa al-Nihal and insha’allah this will be part of an ongo­ing series to repro­duce extracts of Ibn Hazm’s crit­i­cisms of the Bible and Christianity.