Biblical Hebrew Forum

[Dan Wagner <Dan.Wagner AT datastream.net>]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Peter Kirk [mailto:Peter_Kirk AT sil.org]
> Sent: Thursday, January 04, 2001 08:28
> To: Dan Wagner; Biblical Hebrew
> Subject: RE: Arabic Bible
> 
> 
> That may be the more recent Muslim apologetic. But in the 
> original Muslim
> tradition, the Qur'an, there is an explicit injunction to 
> read the Tovrat =
> Hebrew Bible and the Injil = New Testament. So in answer to 
> these Muslim
> claims that the text is corrupted, one can ask when the text was first
> corrupted, before or after the time of Muhammad. If they say 
> "before", then
> ask why Muhammad was instructed to read these corrupted 
> texts. If they say
> "after", then they will have to agree that MSS from before 
> Muhammad's time
> are not corrupt, and you can show them DSS and the 4th-5th 
> century CE folios
> of LXX and NT.
> 
> Peter Kirk

Agreed! (Although i have not found your logic to be effective in the
contacts i've had so far.)

Dan Wagner