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at around minute 12, M. Hijab and Subboor Ahmad state that David Lorton apparently has stated somewhere that cross-amputation of hands and feet and impalement was a punishment recorded in Ancient Egypt. Anyone have the source for this particular claim?
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I would also recommend Derren Brown's series (as well as his entire channel tbh) "Miracles For Sale" to take a look at how a lot of these faith healings and other "soft" miracles can occur from a naturalistic angle youtube.com/watch?v=oDtJrfD0…
All Things Theology is a great channel that covers a lot of modern day miracle claims and prophecies made by modern day prophets from a skeptical angle. Highly recommend some of these videos to see how religious movements can emerge and grow youtube.com/@Kdubtru
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This is very interesting! The Damascus Document sets up this apocalyptic date-setting by interpreting Daniel 9 in a particular way!
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Even if there was a *decline* in idol-worship and "polytheism" in the centuries leading up to Islam (4th, 5th, 6th) in favor of more monotheistic traditions, I don't get why some folks online make it seem like the whole peninsula was monotheistic. Clearly it wasn't!
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First day at IQSA. Amazing day, the highlight of which was Dr Ahmad Al-Jallad’s keynote lecture on the Qur’an in light of 1500 years of pre-Islamic Arabian epigraphy. The recent developments in this field are so incredibly exciting and only seem to be the beginning.
This conference feels like my version of Glastonbury or Coachella. I spent the day fangirling whenever I spotted an academic whose work I had read or watched, and becoming completely tongue tied whenever I had to speak to anyone.
@iqsaweb @Back2daM00N
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As Holger Zellentin has shown (Qurʾān’s Legal Culture, 140), the idea that the Mosaic Law is in part a punishment given to the Jews [as mentioned in 4:160] is connected to an idea found in the Syriac Christian Didascalia, /1
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Mālik b. Anas’s Attitude towards ʿAlī 🧵
We begin by noting that Mālik’s paternal grandfather was especially close to ʿUthmān such that he is said to be one of only four people who managed to procure ʿUthmān’s body which had been abandoned and bury it secretly by night.
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Here's a document I have listing some of the examples of God not being tired in the process of creation. Some of these are just reference numbers, but there are a few direct quotations notably from Jacob of Serugh
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Does the notion of God ascending to or 'resting' on the throne on after having finished the creation process in six days appear in Jewish and Christian sources ? I am curious if the notion of God resting on the seventh day was eliminated pre Islam @foucaultyen @Rurouni_Phoenix
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I was looking the poetry that Lindstelt argued to belong a medinan christian and it is interesting for various reasons, one of them is how it seems to echoes wording and themes of the quran. For example verse 1 you have Q20:130, for verse 2 you have multiple quranic verses like
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🧵 Does every culture have a flood myth? Part 9: Australia and New Zealand
G’day, it’s time for flood myths from my homeland, Straya. It’s also a great case study of the influence of Europeans on indigenous stories.
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🧵 Does Every Culture Have a Flood Myth? Part 8: Europe
I’m going to look at one of the most metal flood myths the world has to offer. The flood of blood. Outside of the Greek legends, the rest of Europe has few pre-Christian flood myths... however…
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An interesting Early Christian text: Epistula Apostolorum (The Epistle of the Apostles)
It is is a 2nd century Christian text that portrays a dialogue between Jesus and his disciples after the resurrection. The text presents a proto-orthodox view against docetism.
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🧵 Does Every Culture Have a Flood Myth? Part 7: Africa
Let’s start with Egypt, we have an enormous cache of Egyptian legends and myths - yet no flood myth. They even traded extensively with the Babylonians, and yet they never adopted that tale!
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🧵 Does Every Culture Have a Flood Myth? Part 5: South America
🚨Note🚨: Every tale you read below are first recorded after Portuguese and Spanish colonists came to South America from ~1500 CE.
Frenchman Andre Thevet travelled to South America in the 16th Century.
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🚨 Breaking 🚨
It seems my suspicions were correct. There are actually quite a few other scholars who are specialists who agree there is probably a genetic relationship between the Mesopotamian flood stories and the Indian account.
Two of the most recent:
