which was written first the bible or the quran.
If one impression stands out more clearly than any other today, it is that on all hands the overall historicity of the Old Testament tradition is admitted. Thompson, The Bible and Archaeology, 3rd ed.
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Grand Rapids, MI: W. Eerdmans Pub. Albright, Archaeology and the Religion of Israel Baltimore,p. Thomas L. Thompson was an American Catholic born in in Detroit. He was awarded a B. Such study recognizes that historians chose data and put it into a narrative using preconceived notions of the meaning of the past.
Thus, literary considerations of history blur the line between history writing and fiction.
The events of history, like those of fiction, were seen as emplotted, chernobyl roentgens directed into a meaningful story line by an author. It is not difficult to see how the claim that history and fiction are quite similar can raise serious questions about the accuracy of a historical account. Polebridge Press. ISBN Freethought Press. Here I desire to impress upon the minds of my clerical brethren the important fact, that the gospel histories of Christ were written by men who had formerly been Jews see Acts xxi. Lardner, it which was written first the bible or the quran impossible, under such circumstances, for them to separate if they had desired to the real facts and events of his life from the innumerable fictions and fables then afloat everywhere relative to the heathen Gods who had pre-enacted a similar history.
Two reasons are thus furnished for their constructing a history of Christ almost identical with that of other Gods, as shown in chapters XXX. Image of p. Williams and Norgate. Frist human mind has long suffered an eclipse and been darkened and dwarfed in the shadow of ideas, the real meaning of which has been lost to the moderns. Myths and allegories whose significance was qura unfolded to initiates in the mysteries have been adopted in ignorance and re-issued as real truths directly and divinely vouchsafed to mankind for the first and only time: The earlier religions had their myths interpreted.
We have ours mis-interpreted. Christian ignorance notwithstanding, the Gnostic Jesus is the Egyptian Horus who was continued by the various sects of gnostics under both the names of Horus and of Jesus.
In the gnostic iconography of the Roman Catacombs child-Horus reappears as the mummy-babe who wears the solar disc. The royal Horus is represented in the cloak of royalty, and the phallic emblem found there witnesses to Jesus being Horus of the resurrection.
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The Twilight of Christianity. New York: Vanguard Press. There is no other source of the belief in an historical Jesus but the gospels. The credibility of the historical documents of Christianity finds no support outside themselves.]
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