Getting Jesus Right: How Muslims Get Jesus and Islam Wrong
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James A Beverley. Getting Jesus Right: How Muslims Get Jesus and Islam Wrong
A Thank-You to Colleagues, Friends and Fellow Scholars
Jesus and His Followers
How Close Are the New Testament Gospels to the Time of Jesus?
Oldest Synoptic Gospels Papyri
Are the New Testament Gospels Based on Eyewitness Testimony?
Summary
Jesus and the Copyists
Are the NT Manuscripts Reliable?
Oldest Greek Codices
How Well Established Is the Arabic Text of the Qur’an?
How Does the New Testament Manuscript Record Compare to that of the Classics?
Summary
Messiah and Son of God
Jewish Monotheism
Jewish Ideas Regarding the Awaited Messiah
The Implicit Claims of Jesus
The Explicit Claims of Jesus
What Paul and Other New Testament Writers Say
Summary
Unity and Diversity in the Early Church
The Message of James: “Without Works, Faith Is Dead”
The Message of Paul: “No One Is Justified by Works of the Law”
Summary
The Real Aims of Jesus
Jesus as Zealot
Jewish Zealotry in Old Testament Times and in the Time of Jesus
Examples of Zeal in the Intertestamental Period
Zealots in the Time of Jesus
The Zeal of Jesus
The Proclamation of Jesus
Summary
The Standard Islamic View of the Prophet
Traditional Muslim Dating of Muhammad’s Life
Reza Aslan on Muhammad
Muslim Love for the Prophet
Non-Muslim Praise for the Prophet
You Must Know This Man
Summary
Islamic Views Under Scrutiny
The Qur’an and the Prophet
Muhammad and Traditional Islamic Sources
Evidence from Non-Muslim Sources
The Patricia Crone Case
Historical Puzzles
Summary
Ethical Problems for Muslims
The Stepson’s Wife
The Prophet and Slavery
Vol. 7-#137 Narrated Abu al-Khudri:
Vol. 5-#459 Narrated Ibn Muhairiz:
The Case of the Young Bride
Kinana’s Misfortune
A Poet Dies
Death for Apostasy
Summary
Importance, Content and Origin of the Muslim Holy Scripture
The Importance of the Qur’an
Basics about the Qur’an
Ten Major Themes of the Qur’an
Traditional Islam on the Origin and Transmission of the Qur’an
The Qur’an’s Textual, Historical and Moral Reliability. Qur’an under Critique
Textual Transmission
The Satanic Verses
Very Human and Fallible Sources: Four Examples
Sleepers in the Cave
Moses and the Green Man
Alexander the Great in the Qur’an
Solomon and the Queen of Sheba
Other Borrowings
More Troubles in the Qur’an
Jews as Apes and Pigs
Confusions, Disorder and Contradictions
Summary
The Birth and Childhood of Jesus in the Qur’an and Islamic Tradition
Jesus in the Qur’an2
Summary
The Death of Jesus in the Qur’an and Islamic Tradition
The Death of Jesus in the Qur’an
Early Non-Christian References to the Death of Jesus
Summary
Jesus in Early Islamic Tradition
Summary
Veils, Wife Beating and Other Contested Issues
The Greatest for Women
Major Concerns about Islam and Women
The Veil
Misogynist Traditions
An Infamous and Controversial Verse
Troublesome Issues in the Qur’an
Women in Modern Islam
Summary
Jihad, Crusades, Colonialism and the Rise of Terrorism
Aslan’s Perspective under Scrutiny
Muhammad and Jihad
Jihad and the Qur’an
Early Muslim Conquests
Jihad and Islamic Law
Jihad and the Crusades
Colonialism and the Rise of Militant Islam
A Self-Critical Stance
Missing Jesus
Signs of Hope, Paths to Peace
Books on Jesus, the Bible and Christian Faith
Websites on Jesus, the Bible and Christian Faith
Books on Islam
Websites on Islam
Chapter 1–Are the New Testament Gospels Reliable?
Chapter 2–Are the Manuscripts of the New Testament Gospels Reliable?
Chapter 3–How Did Jesus Understand Himself and His Mission?
Chapter 4–Did James and Paul Preach a Different Gospel?
Chapter 5–Was Jesus a Zealot?
Chapter 6–How Do Muslims View Muhammad?
Chapter 7–How Reliable Is the Historical Record about Muhammad?
Chapter 8–Is Muhammad the Greatest Moral and Spiritual Model?
Chapter 9–How Do Muslims View the Qur’an?
Chapter 10–Is the Qur’an God’s Infallible Word?
Chapter 11–Does the Qur’an Get Jesus Right?
Chapter 12–Does the Qur’an Get the Death of Jesus Right?
Chapter 13–Does Islamic Tradition Get Jesus Right?
Chapter 14–Does Islam Liberate Women?
Chapter 15–Is Islam a Religion of Peace?
Chapter 16–Easter Truths, Muslim Realities and Common Hope
Appendix 1–Reza Aslan’s Zealot: Wrong at Many Points
Appendix 2–Was Jesus Married to Mary Magdalene?
Appendix 6–The Islamic State and The Atlantic
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Praise for Getting Jesus Right
“The authors deal with every topic, from ancient manuscripts to terrorism, from Jesus to Muhammad, from the Crusades to colonialism, with accuracy, originality and courage. Getting Jesus Right is a provocative and powerful work.”
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In 2003, James Dunn, Lightfoot Professor of Divinity at the University of Durham, published his monumental Jesus Remembered,17 in which he argued that although the Jesus tradition in the early Christian community was a living tradition that could be adapted as the need and occasion required, the tradition as a whole was early, stable and reliable.
Dunn’s findings complemented Samuel Byrskog’s work, which focused on pedagogy (teaching youth) and the protocols for the transmission of a master’s teaching. Byrskog shows that within the Gospel of Mark, the first of the three Synoptic Gospels to be published, is evidence of the pedagogical practices of the time, by which a master’s teaching was carefully preserved and accurately taught, and not free-wheeling invention of tradition, as at one time imagined by some critics.18
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