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To: Long Jon No Silver

Anyone can edit wikipedia. I edit articles - but you don’t even need to be registered.

There is criticism of Luxenburg, but in my amateur historian opinion, this is unwarranted.

There are two aspect to the Aramaic in the Quran (there are also a few Farsi words)

1. Deflating the “Arabic is a holy language” point - many, if not most Mohammedans think that Arabic is the language of Allah. So telling them that it is an evolution of Nabataen is disconcerting.

2. More critical is the fact that the Quranic text reads better in Syriac than in Arabic indicates that the Quran was created. To nearly all Mohammedans the Quran occupies the place of Jesus in Christianity - i.e. they hold the Quran as uncreated and existing before all time and the literal words of Allah. Saying it was created is soul crushing - note that this is analogous to some Christian sects who consider the Bible to be dictated by God and some Jewish sects who consider the Torah to be the dictated words of God


9 posted on 04/07/2022 2:33:08 AM PDT by Cronos
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To: Cronos

Great post.

For people who like a podcast style of learning, for this topic, see CIRA International and also Pfander Films and also also Thomas Alexander (from Germany) on YouTube.


11 posted on 04/07/2022 4:06:32 AM PDT by fishtank (The denial of original sin is the root of liberalism.)
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