Tag: Old Testament

  • Was Sarah The Sis­ter Of Abraham ?

    Was Sarah The Sis­ter Of Abraham ?

    Was Sarah really Abraham's sister? Ibn Hazm questions the status of Sarah as being Abraham's sister, as accepting that viz., from the Biblical perspective would result in various disagreements with other passages in the Old Testament concerning moral and theological issues. This is in reference to the stories of Sarah's seizure by Pharaoh and Abime'elech…

  • The Ka’a­ba And The Abra­ham­ic Tradition

    The Ka’a­ba And The Abra­ham­ic Tradition

    The story of Prophet Ibrahim's migration from Babylonia to Syria-Palestine (Kan'an), then to Egypt, then his return to Palestine and subsequently his coming with his wife Hajar and son Isma'il to Makka is well-known. These epoch-making travels took place roughly at the beginning of the second millennium B.C. Ibrahim had at first called his own…

  • Dis­gust­ing Lan­guage : The Prob­lem of Ezekiel 23

    Dis­gust­ing Lan­guage : The Prob­lem of Ezekiel 23

    “Does the Bible use lan­guage not fit­ting for God?” This was the ques­tion that a mis­sion­ary rhetor­i­cal­ly posed to his read­ers in an amus­ing but vain attempt to ​“defend” the inap­pro­pri­ate and unnat­ur­al lan­guage of Ezekiel 23. The fun­ny thing that this author has noticed about his whole ​“defence” (and which also prompt­ed this author to write…

  • Sto­ry of Cre­ation in the Qur’an and Old Testament

    Sto­ry of Cre­ation in the Qur’an and Old Testament

    The sto­ry of Cre­ation is locat­ed in the first Book of the Old Tes­ta­ment, i.e. in the ear­ly chap­ters of Gen­e­sis. The Old Tes­ta­ment nar­ra­tive is almost like a sto­ry­book ; hence it starts off with the sto­ry of Cre­ation as the begin­ning of the sto­ry of mankind. The Qur’an gives a dif­fer­ent pre­sen­ta­tion to its idea and…