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Raped and Discarded Princess

Tamar, the only daughter of King David was raped by her half-brother. King David was at a loss to protect or give her much-needed justice. This is a biblical tale of complex turns and twists and leave

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Dinah's Rape and Levi's Deception

The Bible is considered holy by many and X-rated by others. It is a mixture of facts and fiction, some of them quite sexually violent and promiscuous. The irony is that these hedonistic passages are p

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The Qur'an's Comprehensive Rejection of the Trinity

The Qur'an fundamentally opposes several key Christian beliefs, including the Trinity, the notion of Jesus as the Son of God and a divine figure within the Trinity, and related concepts such as origin

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Rape, Murder, Conspiracy and the King

In Islamic tradition, Prophets hold a revered status, being regarded as individuals of impeccable moral character, righteousness, and unwavering devotion to God.

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The Righteous Deceiver

Even though Jacob, known as Yaakov in Hebrew, holds great significance in Judaism as one of the early patriarchs of the Israelite people, he is often referred to as a cunning trickster in the Bible du

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Bible's Problems of Authenticity

The composition, authorship, and historical authenticity of the New Testament present an intriguing aspect of early Christian history, especially considering that Jesus Christ himself did not direct a

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Islam's Unique Monotheism

Among the world's religions, Islam stands out as a staunch advocate of pure, strict, and morally simple monotheism. While Judaism claims to be the progenitor of monotheistic traditions, it does not co

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Jewish Concept of God

The understanding of God distinctive to the Hebrew Bible and hence to Judaic tradition is an amalgamation of anthropomorphic (manlike) and transcendental (otherworldly) tendencies.

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Is God Dead? Part 1

“IS GOD DEAD?” asked Time magazine in its April 8, 1966 issue. Yes, “God is dead,” responded three American theologians.

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Is God Dead? Part 2

God is nothing but a rarified, esoteric, and exalted version of man.

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Is God Dead? Part 3

Nineteenth-century evolutionary theories of religion primarily sought to understand the origin, development, and function of religion in human societies rather than in the heavens.

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Islamic Alternate to Death of God Theology

Renowned British Sociologist Earnest Gellner argues that “there is one very real, dramatic and conspicuous exception to all this: Islam. To say that secularization prevails in Islam is not contentio

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مقدمة الكتاب

هذا الكتاب عرضٌ تفصيلي لقضايا تجسيم الخالق وتجسيده

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فكرة الإله في الفكر اليهودي

دفع الفكرُ الهيليني اليوناني مجموعة من العلماء اليهود إلى القيام بتأويل التعبيرات التجسيدية تأويلاً مجازي

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Talmud: The Real Scripture of Jews

The Talmud holds a pivotal role in Rabbinic Judaism, ranking just after the Torah in its significance within Jewish tradition. Essentially, the Torah's comprehension, interpretation, and application i

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Weeping God of the Jewish Talmud

The rabbinic authorities, with rare exception, emboldened the physical depictions of God and made it so graphic that the Talmudic God became nothing short of a complete human being with excessive huma

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Muslim Influences on the Jewish Civilization

The influence of Muslim culture on medieval Jewish civilization was significant and multifaceted, reflecting the close interactions between these communities, especially in regions like the Iberian Pe

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Islamic Roots of Jewish Rationalism

Medieval Muslim theologians, philosophers, and polemics took the Jewish scholarship to task for Jewish primitive, irrational, contradictory, and manlike (anthropomorphic) concepts of God, supremacist

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Authority of Torah and Jewish Sects

Though significant results were achieved by the as mentioned scholars of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, nobody attempted to differentiate clearly between various parts of the Pentateuch.

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Terrorizing the Bible: Allegory and Typology

Men like Roman philosophers Celsus, Porphyry, and others did point out the existence of immoralities, contradictions, inconsistencies as well as anthropomorphisms contained in the Old Testament, ident

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Liberal Response to Old Testament

The liberal writers observed that the Old Testament had over time evolved from primitive to more developed forms and had gone through a fundamental change during this developmental process.

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Authority of Bible in Christianity

The student would have to study the New Testament to explore Christian views on these fundamental areas because the New Testament alone is the claimed primary authority for most Christians. In this ca

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Historical Jesus or Risen Lord?

Numerous academics contend that a significant portion of the statements in the Gospels attributed to Jesus may not actually be his words, but rather post-resurrection declarations from his disciples o